Finance

This work is a study of the Keynes and Friedman approaches to the institutions which implement monetary and other related policies. The policy of t...

Global competition, technological development, and changes in banking laws and regulations are transforming the role of commercial banks and the na...

This compilation integrates various new contributions to the growing real options literature. Recent developments in the valuation of capital inves...

In this sure-to-be-controversial history of money and banking, Hixson examines the historical and resulting present-day deficiencies of the U.S. mo...

The need for evaluation of public sector research and development activity is critical in today's political environment to assist policymakers with...

The rapid development of Asian countries has met with mixed reactions among economists. Most economists understand that a genuine development is un...

No single system of development can accommodate all variations of the economic, social, and political environments in developing economies. The aut...

Under pressure from both the Federal government and private citizens, local and state governments are restructuring their services, including the a...

The post-communist European countries have faced enormous political and economic problems in attempting the transformation to a market oriented eco...

While nearly everyone in the United States pays careful attention to the federal government in Washington, it is the state and local officials and ...

This study provides a timely and useful benchmark for analysis of the effects of the recently negotiated North American Free Trade Agreement on inv...

Privatization and capital markets support and reinforce each other to promote economic growth around the world. This work is intended to fill a gap...

During recent years, American states have launched programs to promote direct foreign investment and product export, but there has been little self...

Japanese direct investment in the United States increased $100 billion during the late 1980s. By 1992, 400,000 Americans were employed in 2600 comp...

John Levy's text presents microeconomic theory for use in analyzing and formulating public policy. It couples a direct and non-intimidating approac...

This book presents an analysis of Caribbean fiscal problems, with particular emphasis on the relationship between high levels of public expenditure...

This study systematically investigates the degree to which international economic linkages are related to domestic political conflict in developing...

This study provides an in-depth analysis of the external debt problem of a country--Mexico--that allegedly faces a debt overhang, which inhibits lo...

The Washington financier who first proposed creation of a trust fund to retire the national debt has written a book outlining a new plan that would...

Lowy avoids the easy answers, like blaming it on fraud and greed, and explains how something of this magnitude could occur under the noses of those...

This volume is the first book-length treatment of state-level business tax issues. It addresses three broad questions: (1) How should businesses be...