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Studying Hong Kong Accounting 20 Years of Political, Economic and Social Developments Japanese Management and International edited by Tai Wei Lim & Tuan Yuen Kong Studies - Vol 15 (East Asian Institute, NUS, Singapore) Fixed Revenue Accounting A New Management Accounting Framework Hong Kong’s role remains as a gateway for edited by Kenichi Suzuki, Hiromune Ishii global trading houses, businessmen, investors (Meiji University, Japan) & Bruce Gurd and traders. Hong Kong continues to be an (University of South Australia, Australia) open economy and has stuck to free trade policies, as one of the former four successful “…The authors’ work will provide readers with a deep understanding of the usefulness of FRA. “tiger economies” in East Asia. In the political and international In particular, the authors share the important relations realm, this book examines Hong Kong’s relations with China, points: acquiring and retaining fixed customers are useful for both other major powers and the world at large. It also covers domestic the stability of financial performance and increasing the number of developments, including legal developments. Other chapters in the book examine cultural developments in Hong Kong from specific case highly satisfied customers.” Hermawan Kartajaya studies of iconic animation character to trans-boundary popularity Founder & Executive Chairman, MarkPlus, Inc. of Hong Kong popular culture in China. Readership: Students and researchers who are keen to have a deeper Readership: This book is intended for students as well as professionals understanding of fixed revenue accounting. and the general public interested in understanding Hong Kong 160pp Nov 2018 culture, history and politics. 978-981-3237-25-4 US$88 £77 312pp Jul 2018 978-981-3223-54-7 US$118 £105 RELATED JOURNAL
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This book assesses ASEAN-China Strategic This book expounds how “Internet Plus” plan Partnership in the past 15 years by taking stock transforms and influences traditional economy, of the implementation of existing ASEAN-China impacts technological and economic aspects cooperation frameworks, mechanisms and of industries, extends its reach to people’s programs; defines overall goals and guiding daily lives and creates more profound social principles of the ASEAN-China Strategic Partnership toward the end of implications. In addition, the authors put forward constructive 2030; sets specific targets, to be reached in 2030; and offers strategies measures and suggestions for Shanghai to promote development of for the 2030 Vision to be aligned with the ASEAN Community Vision the “Internet Plus” era and to enhance the city’s economic impact and 2025 and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in the three service level as a core city. pillars of ASEAN-China cooperation. Readership: Students, researchers and the general public who want to Readership: Policymakers, academics, professionals, undergraduate know about the impact of the internet era in Shanghai. and graduate students interested in China-ASEAN relations. 359pp Jan 2019 168pp Aug 2018 978-981-3272-51-4 US$128 £115 978-981-3271-57-9 US$78 £70
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The analysis provided in this book relates to the broad Indonesia’s diverse economic landscape and growing importance dimensions of urban development of Shandong in the global and regional stages warrant deeper understanding cities and can stand up to academic scrutiny as it of the economy at sub-national levels. This book is an update is based on rigorous methodological foundations. In addition, the study of ACI’s annual study of the competitiveness landscape of will remain accessible and appealing to policymakers as it offers tailored 34 Indonesian provinces. With 100 indicators covering four policy recommendations based on the analysis that will enable them to environments and 12 sub-environments of competitiveness, the take appropriate policy interventions in each city to improve their overall study’s unique methodology incorporates comparative strengths performance in urban development. This research will help to identify and weaknesses, and “what-if” policy simulations aimed at policy the strengths and weaknesses of each city and empower policymakers to suggestions for each province. formulate more effective development strategies. Readership: Policymakers, researchers, and the general audience Readership: Academics, undergraduate and graduate students, and interested in Indonesia’s economic development. professionals interested in China’s urban development in general, and Shandong’s in particular. 380pp Dec 2018 978-981-3272-27-9 US$158 £140 440pp Dec 2018 978-981-3272-33-0 US$168 £150 2017 Annual Competitiveness Analysis and Impact of Exchange Rates on Foreign Direct Balanced, Sustainable and Competitiveness Investment Inflows to Sub-National Economies Enhancement Study for Vietnam of India A Critical Evaluation with Development Potentials by Khee Giap Tan, Sasidaran Gopalan, Jigyasa Sharma & by Tien Loc Vu (Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Vietnam), Puey Ei Leong (Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, Khee Giap Tan, Trieu Duong Luu Nguyen & Duy Nguyen NUS, Singapore) (Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, NUS, Singapore) This is the fifth edition of the Asia Competitiveness Institute’s Asia Competitiveness Institute (ACI) contend that Vietnam is at a critical flagship analysis of competitiveness covering the sub-national juncture in its development whereby a new wave of far-reaching reforms economies of India. The research in this study comes from an is required to address persistent structural weaknesses and unleash the effort to recognise the heterogeneity of India and how the country’s economic potentials. In addition, Vietnam’s new growth model variations in the dynamics of competitiveness pan out at the must tackle widening regional disparities which puts Vietnam at risk of sub-national level. becoming one country with two economies where the southern region of Vietnam pulls too far ahead of its northern and central counterparts. Readership: Academics, undergraduate and graduate students, Based on our analysis, we propose a comprehensive policy roadmap for and professionals interested in India’s economic development. Vietnam to achieve balanced and sustainable development for enhanced 210pp Dec 2018 competitiveness. 978-981-3272-30-9 US$128 £115 Readership: Researchers and advance graduates studying Vietnam developmental economics. 2017 Annual Competitiveness Analysis and 220pp Dec 2018 Impact of Exchange Rates on Foreign Direct 978-981-3273-02-3 US$138 £120 Investment Inflows to ASEAN Economies by Khee Giap Tan, Trieu Duong Luu Nguyen, Hui Yin Chuah & Duy Nguyen (Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, 6 2017 Impact Estimation of Exchange Rate on Foreign NUS, Singapore) Direct Investment Inflows and Annual Update of Competitiveness Analysis for 34 Greater China This book recount the development experience of ASEAN over Economies the past 50 years, describe the long-term mega-trends which by Khee Giap Tan, Xuyao Zhang, Shida Zhou & Puey Ei Leong will shape ASEAN’s development trajectory, and propose a (Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, NUS, Singapore) development vision with actionable policy recommendations for ASEAN to become the fourth-largest economy in the world Asia Competitiveness Institute’s flagship competitiveness study adopts a by 2030. comprehensive framework to measure competitiveness by incorporating Readership: Researchers and advance graduates studying ASEAN 102 indicators under four environments and 11 sub-environments. developmental economics. By undertaking the study at the sub-national level, it accounts for the considerable disparities within a large economy like Greater China. The 280pp Dec 2018 study’s unique methodology incorporates comparative strengths and 978-981-3273-05-4 US$148 £130 weaknesses, and what-if policy simulations aimed at policy suggestions for each sub-national economy and region.
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Handbook Is This the Asian Century? by Jong-Wha Lee (Korea University, South Korea) World Scientific Reference on Asia-Pacific Trade Policies This book comprises 25 articles which the (In 2 Volumes) author has published on the Project Syndicate edited by Kym Anderson (University of website since 2012. These articles are grouped Adelaide & Australian National University, into four broad topics: (1) Growth and Structural Australia) Adjustment, (2) Economic Integration and Cooperation, (3) Business, Money, and Finance, This two-volume reference work provides a timely update on how far the region has and (4) Education and Society. Through these come in opening markets. It analyses the selected works, the author explores whether motivations or ostensible objectives of the Asian Century is coming to pass or not and how Asian economies policies adopted in the past, the changing extent of the domestic prepare for such century. The author also presents his analyses of price distortions involved, the economic effects of those policies at Asia’s economic transformation as well as social and cultural changes, home and abroad, the political economy forces at work that brought and suggests the ways that Asian economies can overcome major about those policies and their subsequent reform, their consequences economic and social challenges to continue their path towards a more for international trade, economic welfare and poverty alleviation, balanced and sustainable growth in the 21st century. and prospects for sustainable improvements in current policies. Case studies of major East Asian economies and Australia reveal Readership: General readers interested in Asian economies and the how government priorities to assist farmers versus manufacturers policy debates on their future directions. has changed over the past century but especially since the 1980s, and how that has affected trade between natural resource-poor and 144pp Oct 2017 resource-rich economies. 978-981-3227-58-3 US$48 £42 Readership: Students, researchers, policymakers and professionals who are interested in the economics and politics of trade policies, agricultural economics, economic development, and food and Bestselling Handbook nutrition security in the Asia-Pacific region. The Economies of China and India (In 3 Volumes) 1315pp Mar 2019 Cooperation and Conflict 978-981-3274-66-2(Set) US$545 £480 Volume 1: China and India: The International Context and Introductory Offer till May 31, 2019 US$495 £435 Economic Growth, Manufacturing Performance and Rural Development Building Inclusive Democracies in Volume 2: Competitiveness, External Cooperation Strategy ASEAN and Income Distribution: Changes in China edited by Ronald U Mendoza (Asian Institute Volume 3: Economic Growth, Employment and Inclusivity: of Management, Philippines), Edsel L Beja Jr. (Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines), The International Environment Julio C Teehankee (De La Salle University, edited by Manmohan Agarwal (Centre for Development Studies, India Philippines), Antonio G M La Viña (Ateneo de & Research and Information Systems for Developing Countries, India), Manila University, Philippines) & Maria Fe Jing Wang & John Whalley (University of Western Ontario, Canada) Villamejor-Mendoza (University of the Editor-in-chief: John Whalley Philippines Diliman, Philippines) This volume set covers both China’s “Offering a multi-faceted look into the Asian political economy as and India’s strategies and objectives well as the dynamics underpinning inclusive growth in the region, in international governance, their this volume bridges the perspectives of experts and practitioners from a broad array of fields on what it means to achieve inclusive bilateral and multilateral trade growth... is a solid supplemental resource for individuals seeking a agreement negotiations, financial deeper understanding of the dynamics and issues surrounding the liberalization, growth prospects, Asian political economy.” rural development and agriculture, Fidel V Ramos income distribution, labor market President of the Republic of the Philippines (1992 – 1998) mechanism, manufacturing and Readership: Readers in political science, Southeast Asian studies, competitiveness upgrading, as well 7 political economy, and governance reform. as environmental and other social issues.
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Textbook Financial Strategies and Topics in Finance Quantum Methods in Social Science Selected Public Lectures of Professor A First Course Harold Bierman, Jr. from 1960 – 2015 by Emmanuel Haven (University of Leicester, UK), by Harold Bierman, Jr (Cornell) Andrei Khrennikov (Linnaeus University, Sweden) & Terry Robinson (University of Leicester, UK) By explaining complex financial strategies in a Shown here is how basic concepts of physics simplified manner, Professor Bierman makes can be used to improve models in finance, corporate finance accessible to the non-expert economics, psychology and biology. Readers reader as well. 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In any case, the rich bibliography contains all other classical text such as Ingersoll (1987) and materials on stochastic the references required for further in-depth analyses of specific issues. calculus. I think that the authors did a very good job, filling a gap in the statistical literature and providing a contribution that is going to be particularly Readership: Graduates, doctoral students, researchers, academic and helpful to statisticians without a specific background in copulas.” professionals in theoretical financial modeling in mainstream finance Mathematical Reviews or derivative securities. Readership: Advanced undergraduate and graduate students, 228pp May 2018 practitioners in financial industry and scientists. 978-981-4460-37-8 US$78 £69 356pp Aug 2017 978-981-3149-24-3 US$118 £98 Textbook Bestselling Textbook Mergers & Acquisitions 8 A Practitioner’s Guide to Successful Deals R in Finance and Economics edited by Harvey A. 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Textbook Textbook Metals and Energy Finance Stock Markets and Corporate Finance (2nd Edition) by Michael Dempsey (RMIT University, Australia) Application of Quantitative Finance This book examines the nature of the stock Techniques to the Evaluation of Minerals, market and its implications for corporate Coal and Petroleum Projects management. It provides an introduction by Dennis L Buchanan & Mark H A Davis to core issues in finance and differs from (Imperial College London, UK) traditional textbooks in its recognition that Given the design component it involves, “finance is not physics” — in the sense that financial engineering should be considered equal to conventional how markets behave today is not necessarily how they will behave engineering. By adopting this complementary approach, financial tomorrow. Nevertheless, a certain level of “physics” can be recognized models can be used to identify how and why timing is critical in as underpinning the development of stock market valuations and optimizing return on investment and to demonstrate how financial corporate financial decision-making. engineering can enhance returns to investors. This book capitalizes on this approach, and identifies and examines the investment Textbook: Request Inspection Copy at [email protected] opportunities offered across the extractive industry’s cycle, from exploration through evaluation, pre-production development, Readership: MBA, undergraduate and graduate students looking for a development and production. The textbook also addresses the critical textbook on the nature of the financial sector and corporate similarities of a range of natural resource projects, whether minerals finance. or petroleum, while at the same time identifying their key differences. 528pp Oct 2017 978-1-78634-325-3 US$128 £106 Textbook: Request Inspection Copy at [email protected] 978-1-78634-326-0(pbk) US$78 £69
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This volume will introduce the reader to basic Handbook topics of corporate finance. The notes will World Scientific Reference on Contingent Claims provide an integrative model that will help Analysis in Corporate Finance (In 4 Volumes) students evaluate projects, examine financing Volume 1: Foundations of CCA and Equity Valuation alternatives and assess a firm. With problems Volume 2: Corporate Debt Valuation with CCA and detailed solutions at the end of each chapter, this volume will also Volume 3: Empirical Testing and Applications of CCA greatly benefit financial managers and investors. Corporate finance is Volume 4: Contingent Claims Approach for Banks and a discipline from the firm’s perspective and addresses the concerns Sovereign Debt of the Chief Financial Officer of the firm. Additionally, investors need edited by Michel Crouhy (NATIXIS, France), Dan Galai & Zvi Wiener to understand why firms make certain decisions so that they better (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel) recognize what drives firm value.
Black, Scholes and Merton Readership: Undergraduate and graduate students. introduced the contingent claim 264pp Apr 2017 analysis (CCA) to the valuation of 978-981-3149-88-5 US$98 £81 corporate debt and equity. The 978-981-3149-89-2(pbk) US$48 £40 CCA considers all stakeholders of the corporation as holding contingent claims on the assets of NEW AND NOTABLE TITLES 9 the corporation. Each claim holder has different priorities, maturities Computational Economics / Finance and conditions for payouts. In Economic and Business Analysis the four volumes we present the Frank S T Hsiao (University of Colorado, Boulder, USA) major academic research on CCA High-Frequency Trading and Probability Theory to corporate finance. Volume I covers the foundations of CCA and Zhaodong Wang (East China Normal University, China), et al. equity valuation. Volume II focuses on corporate debt and capital Corporate Finance structure. Volume III presents empirical evidence and applications to Case Studies for Corporate Finance (In 2 Volumes) various financial arrangements. The papers in Volume IV show how to Harold Bierman, Jr (Cornell) apply the CCA to deposit insurance and loan guarantees, contingent convertible bonds, and sovereign credit risk. Financial Analysis, Planning & Forecasting (3rd Edition) John C Lee (Center for PBBEF Research, USA), et al. Readership: Graduate students, college and university teachers, Lectures on Corporate Finance (2nd Edition) researchers and practitioners who are interested to understand Peter Bossaerts (California Institute of Technology, USA), et al. the approaches and methods required to sustain the viability of a The Singapore Blue Chips corporate enterprise. Nandini Vijayaraghavan (Thomson Reuters, Hong Kong), et al. 1200pp Mar 2019 The Value Sphere (4th Edition) 978-981-4730-72-3(Set) US$890 £739 John Boquist (Indiana University of Bloomington, USA), et al. Introductory Offer till Jul 31, 2019 US$795 £660 Economics and Finance Catalogue 2019
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Handbook Governance Institutions and Handbook of International Economic Development Food and Agricultural Emerging China, India, East Asia and Brazil Policies (In 3 Volumes) by Kartik Roy (Bond University, Australia & University of Queensland, Australia) Volume 1: Policies for Agricultural Markets and Rural Economic “Roy’s book is a rich and detailed study Activity Volume 2: Policies for of various facets of economic and social Food Safety and Quality, Improved development in ten countries, both democratic Nutrition, and Food Security and authoritarian. Researchers and students will Volume 3: International Trade find here a wealth of information and statistics Rules for Food and Agricultural Products that can be mined to explore fundamental questions around state edited by William H Meyers, Thomas Johnson (University of Missouri, interventionism and modes of governance, around democratisation, USA), Donna H Roberts (formerly US Department of Agriculture’s Economic authoritarianism and economic development, around the factors Research Service, USA) & Karl Meilke (University of Guelph, Canada) driving the differential developmental performance of specific Editor-in-chief: Tim Josling (Stanford) countries, and around the desirability of economic growth at all costs.“ Jude A Howell This is a three-volume set that aims to provide an accessible reference London School of Economics, UK for those interested in the aims and implementation of food and farm policies throughout the world. The treatment is authoritative, Readership: Researchers in economic development and those studying comprehensive and forward looking. The three volumes combine the role of governance in economic development. scholarship and pragmatism, relating academic writing to real-world issues faced by policy-makers. A companion volume looking at the 520pp Jun 2018 future resource and climate challenges for global agriculture will be 978-981-3234-54-3 US$168 £148 published in the future. Readership: Students and researchers who are interested in economic Developmental State and development, agricultural markets and food systems; and policy- Millennium Development Goals makers and professionals involved in monitoring and regulating Country Experiences agricultural and food markets. edited by Kartik Roy (International Institute for Development Studies, Australia & Bond 1244pp Jan 2018 University, Australia) & Sandip Kar (International 978-981-3226-28-9(Set) US$995 £876 Institute of Management Science, India)
Business, Government and Labor Seven out of the eight United National Essays on Economic Development in Millennium Development Goals are social goals. Singapore and Southeast Asia The attainment of such goals would require a edited by Linda Y C Lim (University of Michigan, USA) substantial proportion of public sector expenditure. Without a robust This book analyzes the inter-linked and evolving rate of economic growth, whatever is achieved cannot be sustainable. roles of private sector business, government This book argues that this is the main reason why some of the largest public policy, and labor markets in the economic developing countries fell short in achieving the goals. development of Singapore and its Southeast Asian neighborhood. It does this through 16 Readership: Advance undergraduates taking developmental essays written by Prof. Linda Y C Lim, an early economics modules and researchers considering the sustainability and long-established scholar of these subjects, of the SGDs and MDGs. and published over a 35-year period. Readership: Economists, students and academics specializing in the 360pp Jun 2018 fields of development economics, international trade, Southeast Asia 978-981-3235-27-4 US$128 £113 and readers interested in knowing. 424pp Feb 2018 Textbook 10 978-981-3225-25-1 US$138 £121 The Economics of the Middle East Textbook and North Africa (MENA) (2nd Edition) Introduction to Microfinance by Joseph Pelzman (George Washington by Todd A Watkins (Lehigh University, USA) University, USA) Introduction to Microfinance provides a non- This book presents a unique approach to discuss technical introduction to the broad array of inclusive financial and non-financial services the MENA economies. It focuses on specific for the world’s poor. It explores the financial development issues and examines how it applies lives of those families, and the microfinance to the individual countries. In effect, the basis for comparison will institutions and rapidly growing industry that be an economic construct. This avoids biased comparison of one serve them. Written in close collaboration with country’s performance to another. The new chapters added in this college students for college students, under the auspices of one of 2nd edition include three broad explanations of the Arab Spring. the US’s leading undergraduate programs in microfinance, it is the first-ever introductory college textbook about microfinance. Textbook: Request Inspection Copy at [email protected] Textbook: Request Inspection Copy at [email protected] Readership: Economics and Finance, Development Economics, Readership: Undergraduates and graduates and those who are keen to International Economics, International Finance, Investment and know more about microfinance, development, and/or social investing. Finance, Markets and Institutions.
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2017 Annual Indices for Expatriates and Ordinary Bestselling Handbook Residents on Cost of Living, Wages and Purchasing Power for World’s Major Cities World Scientific Reference on Globalisation in by Khee Giap Tan, Duy Nguyen, Shida Zhou & Isaac Yang En Tan Eurasia and the Pacific Rim (Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, NUS, Singapore) (In 4 Volumes) Volume 1: Foreign Investment This book provides a valuable compendium of annual indices and Volume 2: Innovation rankings of cost of living for expatriates and cost of living, wages Volume 3: Energy: Policy, Legal and Social-Economic Issues and purchasing power for ordinary residents in 105 world’s major under the Dimensions of Sustainability and Security cities over the period 2005-2015. Now in its third edition, the ACI’s Volume 4: Migration: Economic Drivers of Contemporary study reflects salient differences in costs of living for expatriate and Labour Mobility in East Asia ordinary urban dwellers which arise from variations in their lifestyles and consumption preferences. This is of critical significance as cost Editor-in-chief: David A Dyker (University of Sussex, UK) of living for the former is usually conflated as that for the latter by The multi-volume set centers on the general public. investment, innovation, energy Readership: Students; professionals; researchers; think-tanks; and, and migration in Eurasia and the policy makers interested in developmental economics and surveys Pacific Rim, with attention each on cost of living, wages and purchasing power between residents area’s production system (capital, and expatriates. innovation, raw materials and labour). The set is a must-have 710pp Dec 2018 for anyone keen to understand 978-981-3275-22-5 US$288 £255 the region whose manufacturing core can be described, without World Scientific Series in Grand Public Policy Challenges of the exaggeration, as the ‘ workshop 21st Century - Vol 1 of the world’ of the twenty-first Global Challenges for Future Food and Agricultural century. Policies Readership: Graduates, researchers and policymakers keen on edited by David Blandford (The Pennsylvania State University, USA) understanding the economics and globalization of a region critical & Katharina Hassapoyannes (European Parliament, Belgium) to the 21st century. Editor-in-chief: Tim Josling (Stanford) 1104pp Jan 2016 This book presents a comprehensive analysis of the inter-related 978-981-4447-79-9(Set) US$740 £614 policy challenges of food security, management of natural resources, climate change, and international governance. The book also offers valuable insights into options for effective policymaking with the goal of inducing positive policy changes to the food and agricultural sector. NEW AND NOTABLE TITLES Readership: Students and researchers who are interested in Developmental Economics economic development, agricultural markets and food systems; and 2016 Annual Indices for Expatriates and Ordinary Residents on Cost policymakers and professionals involved in monitoring and regulating of Living, Wages and Purchasing Power for World’s Major Cities agricultural and food markets. Khee Giap Tan (Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, NUS, Singapore), et al. 400pp Jan 2019 978-981-3235-39-7 US$138 £121 Economic Growth and Development (3rd Edition) Hendrik Van den Berg (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA) Economics of the Middle East World Scientific Series in Grand Public Policy Julia C Devlin (Brookings Institution, USA) Challenges of the 21st Century International Economic Integration and Domestic Performance Hunger and Malnutrition as Major Mary E Lovely (Syracuse University, USA) Challenges of the 21st Century Environmental / Energy Economics edited by Raghbendra Jha (Australian National 11 University, Australia) Climate Finance Anil Markandya (Basque Centre for Climate Change, Spain), et al. The UN’s Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) Global Crisis and Sustainability Technologies for ‘Zero Hunger’ has refocused attention on Kenji Uchino (Pennsylvania State University, USA) hunger and malnutrition as major challenges for the 21st century and as essential desired goals Real Options in Energy and Commodity Markets Nicola Secomandi (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) for human development. This volume provides key insights on how these challenges for food security can be addressed globally and in a number of countries that face these challenges most acutely.
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World Scientific Lecture Notes in Economics - Vol 4 Pollution Across Borders Lecture Notes in Urban Economics Transboundary Fire, Smoke and Haze in and Urban Policy Southeast Asia by John Yinger (Syracuse University, USA) edited by Euston Quah & Tsiat Siong Tan (NTU, Singapore) This book provides a wide-ranging introduction to urban economics and urban policy by This book is a collection of insights from experts Professor John Yinger, one of the world’s leading of various fields, and will entail discussions of scholars in urban economics. It draws on his the recurring haze problem in Southeast Asia. It extensive teaching and publication record to discusses multiple aspects of the haze problem. provide detailed lecture notes for both a PhD What is the cause of the haze? Who are the level course in urban economics and a master’s level course in urban perpetrators and victims? What are the impacts and costs of the haze? policy. Why has the haze problem persisted for decades? Are there prospects of resolving the pollution? How should we analyze the issue? Which Readership: Students and academics interested in urban economics solutions are more or less effective than others? How can we involve and urban policy. the stakeholders? 644pp Feb 2018 Readership: Graduates and researchers interested in environmental 978-981-3222-18-2 US$158 £139 978-981-3222-19-9(pbk) US$88 £77 aspects, transboundary haze, and general public interested in knowing more about haze.
348pp Jun 2018 Textbook 978-981-3203-91-4 US$128 £113 Housing and Commuting: The Theory of Urban Residential Sustainability and Development in Structure Asia and the Pacific A Textbook in Urban Economics Emerging Policy Issues edited by John Yinger (Syracuse University, USA) edited by Xiumei Guo & Dora Marinova This book presents a simple model of urban (Curtin University, Australia) residential structure and shows how the model’s The UN Sustainable Development Goals provide results change when key assumptions are made a common global agenda for development. more realistic. It provides a wide-ranging introduction to research on However, the emerging policy issues vary urban residential structure. Topics covered range from theoretical greatly across the world. With 32 contributors, analysis of urban structure with different transportation systems or this volume provides a timely, research-based multiple worksites to empirical work on the impact of local public overview for the need for policy interventions to improve the services on house values and the impact of racial prejudice and sustainability and development models of the ten selected countries discrimination on housing choices. in Asia and the Pacific. The volume is firmly positioned at the cusp between research, policy and practice. Textbook: Request Inspection Copy at [email protected] Readership: The book aims at a wider audience of readers, including Readership: Students and professionals in urban planning and urban researchers, academics, students, policy makers, professionals, economics. government and community members.
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12 The Energy Conundrum Reversing Climate Change Climate Change, Global Prosperity, and the How Carbon Removals can Resolve Climate Tough Decisions We Have to Make Change and Fix the Economy by Neil A C Hirst (Imperial College London, UK) by Graciela Chichilnisky (Columbia University, USA) & Peter Bal (Millemont Institute, USA) This book provides a comprehensive and balanced account of global energy policy; Who should reduce emissions — the rich or covering moral, political, social, technical and the poor countries? This book is about the 21st economic aspects of the subject. While The session of COP21 held in Paris in 2015 which Energy Conundrum does not offer easy solutions, brought together around 40,000 participants it provides the facts and evidence gathered in total. The title is co-written by Graciela from sources in government, industry, academia, and NGOs alike, Chichilnisky, who proposed and designed the carbon credit emissions for readers to understand the issues and make their own judgements. trading market.
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Green Development of Asia-Pacific Handbook of Disaster Risk Cities Reduction & Management Building Better Cities Towards 2030 edited by Christian N Madu (University of edited by Zheng Zhao (Beijing Normal Nigeria, Nigeria & Pace University, USA) & University, China) Chu-Hua Kuei (Pace University, USA)
The book evaluates and analyses the level of The book takes an in-depth look at climate green development in over 100 major cities change and its association to socio-economic in Asia Pacific. A quantitative analysis of the development and cultures especially in relationship with economic growth, income vulnerable communities; and investigates distribution, innovation capabilities, service how communities can develop resilience to sector, governance levels, and city clusters are accumulated and disasters. A balanced and a multiple perspective approach to manage presented in the form of a new index; the Urban Green Development the risks associated with natural disasters is offered by engaging Index (UGDI). Amongst the cities discussed in the case studies are authors from the entire globe to proffer solutions. Penang (Malaysia), Singapore, Vladivostok (Russia), Portland (USA), Readership: Graduate students, researchers and practitioners in the Hamburg (Germany), and Stockholm (Sweden). field of disaster management, environmentalists, federal emergency Readership: Targeted at researchers and urban planners looking to management agencies, disaster risk managers. access cities on their sustainability performance. 956pp Sep 2017 420pp Nov 2018 978-981-3207-94-3 US$288 £253 978-981-3236-81-3 US$138 £121 Saving Ourselves Economics of Natural Disasters Interviews with World Leaders on the edited by Suman Kumari Sharma & Euston Quah Sustainable Transition (NTU, Singapore) edited by Yacine Belhaj-Bouabdallah (King’s College London, UK) Unlike existing books on the topic that cover more on non-economic aspects of natural “Reading these interviews with the world’s top disasters, this book covers economic aspects decision makers and experts on sustainable of natural disasters viz damage assessment, risk development and global warming will make management and resilience. The book contains you have your tail in the air urging action to several case studies and covers some of the save the planet.” major natural disasters in different countries, Rick van der Ploeg most notably the recent Nepal earthquake, tsunami in Fukushima, the Oxford University Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami, floods in Thailand, the Hayan This book coverissues such preserving biodiversity, improving our typhoon, and the eruptions of Mount Merapi. It also suggests avenues food systems, building sustainable cities, and promoting good for better public policies to tackle economics of natural disasters. governance. Readership: Graduate students and researchers in the areas of Readership: General public. environmental economics, sustainable development, environment science, and public policy. 300pp May 2017 978-981-3220-74-4 US$88 £73 350pp Dec 2018 978-981-3220-75-1(pbk) US$38 £32 978-981-4723-22-0 US$118 £98
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Textbook General Economics Climate Change and the Energy Problem (2nd Edition) Mastering Megatrends Physical Science and Economics Perspective Understanding and Leveraging the Evolving by David Goodstein (Caltech) & Michael Intriligator New World by Doris Naisbitt, John Naisbitt This important compendium deals with the primary world problems of global warming and From the author of the New York Times bestseller, the coming energy crisis. In alternating chapters, Megatrends: Ten New Directions Transforming Our it lays out the nature of the two interrelated Lives, comes the new title on dealing with the problems, and specifies the various economic considerations. Thus, complexity of change. It is one thing to spot the it describes the coming shortfall of fossil fuel energy in detail and real trends from the fads, but it is another whole new ball game to deal with the incoming trend. then presents the economic factors governing possible solutions. This is the centrepiece of Mastering Megatrends.
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Bestselling Handbook “Economics affects our daily lives profoundly. The WSPC Reference on Natural Resources and Yet, so few of us are aware of this. This book is a great gift to Singaporeans as it cleverly integrates Environmental Policy in the Era of Global Change research with storytelling to show the impact of (In 4 Volumes) Economics on our lives. I highly commend this Volume 1: Game Theory very readable book to Singaporeans and others. Volume 2: The Social Ecology of the Anthropocene: Continuity You will have fun as you learn.” Kishore Mahbubani and Change in Global Environmental Politics Dean, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Volume 3: Computable General Equilibrium Models Singapore, and co-author of The ASEAN Miracle: A Catalyst for Peace Volume 4: Experimental Economics Readership: General readers. Editor-in-chief: Ariel Dinar (UC Riverside) 288pp Jan 2018 The reference set focuses on 978-981-3233-36-2 US$58 £51 the economic and strategic 978-981-3234-53-6(pbk) US$28 £25 aspects of interactions among various parts of society, all Inequality and Global dependent on the availability Supra-surplus Capitalism and utilization of limited natural by E Ray Canterbery (Florida State University, USA) resources and their impact on the environment. Policy This book is written as a sequel to John Kenneth implications are addressed, Galbraith’s The Affluent Society, and provides including current challenges and a theoretical framework, for the first time, future perspectives. for surpra-surplus capitalism. It will explore problems with conventional theory and policy, Readership: Policy-makers and but its main thrust comprises a theory of supra- 14 officials of regional and international agencies, non-governmental surplus capitalism, applicable to both developed organizations, etc. and developing countries, and its relation to inequalities worldwide.
1632pp Dec 2016 Readership: Graduate and undergraduate students of contemporary and historical economics, researchers and academics of economics. 978-981-4713-68-9(Set) US$1200 £996 380pp Mar 2018 978-981-3200-82-1 US$128 £113
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Handbook Methodological Dimension of World Scientific Handbook in Financial Economics Series - Vol 6 Islamic Economics Handbook of the Economics of Wine by Masudul Alam Choudhury (Trisakti University, Indonesia) (In 2 Volumes) Volume 1: Prices, Finance, and Expert Opinion The theme of circular causation has nascent Volume 2: Reputation, Regulation, and Market Organization origin in the field of sociology of economics edited by Orley Ashenfelter (Princeton), Olivier Gergaud (KEDGE with vast development applications and with Business School, France), Karl Storchmann (New York University, USA) epistemological issues on modeling in the & William Ziemba (UBC & London School of Economics, UK) framework of the phenomenon of pervasive interconnectedness. Thus the sociological Over the last three decades, wine economics has emerged as a growing field within theme of epistemic unity of knowledge grounds the theory and agricultural economics, but also in other application of the theory and models of circular causation to the vast fields such as finance, trade, growth, realm of socioeconomic development issues. environmental economics and industrial Readership: For readers who are keen to understand the difference organization. This handbook takes a broad between Islamic Economics and mainstream economics. approach and familiarizes the reader with the main research strands in wine economics. 310pp Mar 2019 978-981-3275-78-2 US$118 £105 Readership: Graduate students and specialists in the field of wine economics.
1048pp May 2018 978-981-4740-57-9(Set) US$395 £348 Textbook Between Science and Economics - Vol 1 Experiments in Economics From Scientific Progress to Decision Making and Markets Economic Growth by John D Hey (University of York, UK) The Economics and Economy of Science by Frank Witte (University College London, UK) This book provides the most important publications of John D Hey over his almost This book provides an introduction to the vast 50-year career in academia, concentrating and varied field of the economics of science. It primarily on his publications in the field of is a unique blend of an economic perspective experimental economics. This is a field that has on the way science works, what makes scientists tick, and a study of grown dramatically over the last 30 years, and the impact of scientific and technological progress on economies and John D Hey has contributed significantly to its their growth. Whether it is about the speculative market of ideas or growth and development. The papers included in this volume cover the whole range from individual decision making, both static and science and technology as engines of the economy, there is something dynamic under risk and uncertainty, through games, bargaining and here for economists, engineers and scientists alike. auctions, to markets. The author has contributed in all these fields, and has pioneered much new methodology. Textbook: Request Inspection Copy at [email protected]
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520pp Sep 2018 300pp Feb 2019 978-981-3235-80-9 US$158 £140 978-1-78326-316-5 US$76 £63 Economics for GCE A Level The Complete Guide Capitalism in the 21st Century by Christabelle Soh (Millennia Institute, Why Global Capitalism Is Broken and Singapore) & Benjamin Thong How It Can Be Fixed (Saint Andrew’s Junior College, Singapore) by Donghyun Park (Asian Development Bank, 15 Based on the new Economics syllabus of Philippines) the Singapore GCE A Level, this study guide Global capitalism is currently suffering from aims to explore relevant economic concepts, an unmistakable malaise, epitomized by wide theories, and issues. It draws extensively on real world examples, especially those relevant and growing inequality that is eroding popular to Singapore. The book is spread across 7 chapters and presented in support for capitalism. Such anti-capitalist a systematic and easy-to-understand manner. sentiment, coupled with a growing anti- globalization mood, delivered Brexit in a UK referendum and swept Readership: Students taking Economics at GCE level in Singapore. Donald Trump to the US presidency. In this book, internationally 360pp Nov 2018 well-regarded economist Dr Donghyun Park articulately explains 978-981-3230-41-5(pbk) US$28 £25 why more capitalism is needed to tackle global problems such as climate change and inhumane poverty. While defending capitalism against its unfair demonization, the author makes a positive case for NOTABLE BACKLIST entrepreneurial capitalism, which creates wealth and jobs as well as Concepts of Transportation Economics drives human progress. Barry E Prentice (University of Manitoba, Canada), et al. Economic Crisis and Rule Reconstruction Readership: General readers. Deming Chen (Former Chinese Minister of Commerce, China) 270pp Apr 2019 Labour Economics and Public Policy Soon Beng Chew (NTU, Singapore) 978-981-3274-23-5 US$68 £60 The World Scientific Reference on Entrepreneurship (In 4 Volumes) 978-981-3275-29-4(pbk) US$38 £35 Donald Siegel (University at Albany, SUNY, USA) Economics and Finance Catalogue 2019
World Scientific Lecture Notes in Economics World Scientific Studies in International Lectures in Neuroeconomics Economics by Paul W Glimcher (New York University, USA) & Hilke Plassmann Offshoring (INSEAD, France) Causes and Consequences at the Firm and Lectures in Neuroeconomics combines over 20 years of pioneering Worker Level edited by Holger Görg & Aoife Hanley research in neuroeconomics, the study of human decision making, (Kiel Institute for the World Economy, Germany) the ability to process multiple alternatives and to follow a course of action. Delivered in 24 lectures, Glimcher and Plassmann brings This volume brings together research papers together top experts in the field to create the first lecture note and dealing with the causes and consequences of handbook on the topic. offshoring. The first part considers causes and motives of offshoring. The second part then looks at the implications Readership: Postgraduates in decision-making sciences and decision- of offshoring for the firms involved. The implications for workers of based economics. offshoring are dealt with in the third part of the volume. 250pp May 2019 Readership: Graduate students and researchers in the fields of 978-981-4759-49-6 US$106 £88 globalization, international economics, international trade and 978-981-4759-50-2(pbk) US$53 £44 business.
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The Unwinding of the Globalist World Scientific Studies in International Dream Economics - Vol 59 EU, Russia and China Contributions to the Economics of edited by Steven Rosefielde (University of North International Labor Standards Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA), Masaaki Kuboniwa edited by Arnab K Basu & Nancy H Chau (Hitotsubashi University, Japan), Satoshi (Cornell) Mizobata (Kyoto University, Japan) & Kumiko Haba (Aoyama Gakuin University, Japan) This volume organizes and presents a number of new developments in the economics of This collection of essays documents and international labors standards. The first part of investigates the conflicts in Europe, Russia and this volume explores a series of labor market China that sparked populist revolts against the established globalist institutions particularly in developing country labor markets so far order in the European Union. The essays in this volume show that unexplored in international labor standards debate. The second globalism is not dead, but will have to reinvent itself to revive. part explores the effectiveness of policy intervention by explicitly recognizing policy implementation challenges. Readership: Academics, policymakers, professionals, graduate and undergraduate students insterested in populist revolts against the Readership: Intended for graduate students, researchers and policy globalization, new trends of international economics and political practitioners interested in economics of international labors economy. standards.
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The Rise of Megacities Challenges, Opportunities and Unique Health Economics Characteristics edited by Jerzy Kleer (Polish Academy of Sciences, Healthcare Policies and Systems in Poland) & Katarzyna Anna Nawrot (Pozna´n Europe and China 16 University of Economics and Business, Poland) Comparisons and Synergies This book takes a multidisciplinary and edited by Attilio Mucelli (Marche Polytechnic University, Italy) & Francesca Spigarelli interdisciplinary approach to analysis of their (University of Macerata, Italy) growth. It examines both the major new challenges that the expansion of megacities Healthcare Policies and Systems in Europe and brings for development at large, and the opportunities they might China, a product of an interdisciplinary European create for the public good. In addition, it shows how more established Union-funded project, comprehensively cities, such as Tokyo, New York or European examples can provide investigates opportunities for mutual integration lessons for governance and development of rapidly urbanizing in the healthcare sector of the two regions and analyses policies at populations. both national and local levels, the legal environment, medical practices, as well as the state of respective healthcare industries and Readership: Students and researchers of development studies, urban related businesses. studies, international relations and the social sciences, as well as those interested in how the world economy is changing through Readership: Graduates, researchers and policy-makers seeking for a globalization. holistic understanding of healthcare policies and systems, both in theory and in practice. 480pp Apr 2018 978-1-78634-426-7 US$148 £130 516pp Jan 2018 978-981-3231-21-4 US$158 £139 For more information, visit: www.worldscientific.com WORLD SCIENTIFIC
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Surveys of International Trade edited by Yin-Wong Cheung & Bharat R Hazari World Scientific Studies in International Economics (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong) Technology Transfer, Foreign Direct Investment, and the Protection of Intellectual Property in the This volume incorporates important surveys from a historical Global Economy perspective. The masterly survey of Bhagwati provides great intuition edited by Kamal Saggi (Vanderbilt University, USA) about trade theoretical results and Chipman’s three surveys present the mathematics of trade theory. These are very deep surveys from This volume collects 26 papers covering channels of international a mathematical point of view and show, for example, the Ricardian technology transfer; multinational firms, market structure, and welfare; model as an application of Quasi-Concave programming and also intellectual property rights, foreign direct investment, and innovation; the magnificent use of Sperner’s Lemma for the odd and even flexibilities contained in the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects intersections that occur in some problems in trade theory. There are of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS); exhaustion of intellectual also other surveys bringing the literature up to date and covering property rights and compulsory licensing of patents; trade, foreign specific topics in trade theory. direct investment, and industrial policy; and, oligopolistic competition, research and development, and vertical contracts. Readership: Graduate students and researchers in the field of international trade. Readership: Advanced undergraduate and postgraduates taking advance classes in international trade and economic development. 300pp Dec 2018 978-981-3238-59-6 US$128 £113 320pp Jun 2019 978-981-3233-01-0 US$128 £113
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Entrepreneurship in Western World Scientific Studies in International Europe Economics - Vol 62 A Contextual Perspective International Trade and Labor by Léo-Paul Dana (Montpellier Business School, Markets France) Welfare, Inequality and Unemployment by Udo Kreickemeier (TU Dresden, Germany) “This book is ideal for an undergraduate classroom as an introduction to western This volume collects theoretical papers on the European entrepreneurship. However, it would labor market effects of international trade. also be valuable as a foundation for graduate Many contributions contained in this volume study, for firms seeking to expand into western feature labor market imperfections that give Europe, and for policymakers wishing to learn from the European rise to involuntary unemployment, and in those contributions, the example. The historical and cultural outlines, along with the question of how trade affects aggregate employment typically takes captivating photography, also appeal to anyone interested in center stage in the analysis. Another recurring theme in many papers furthering their general knowledge of the region.” is the link between international trade and the income distribution International Business Journal within countries.
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Understanding Latin America Textbook A Decoding Guide The Essence of International Trade by Alfredo Toro Hardy (Venezuelan Scholar and Theory Diplomat) by Noritsugu Nakanishi (Kobe University, Japan) “Ambassador Toro Hardy masterfully combines This textbook aims to explain the principles his vast knowledge of the region with his in international trade theory and show how extensive experience as a diplomat, to decipher some useful trade models work. The book the historical and cultural realities of Latin concentrates on two fundamental issues in America. This timely book is a must read for international trade, that is, the “determinants anyone attempting to understand the changing of trade patterns” and the “welfare gains from trade” in various landscape of Latin America in the second decade of the 21st century.” economic environments. Angelo Rivero Santos Georgetown University
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Bestselling Textbook Textbook International Economics Islamic Capital Markets (2nd (4th Edition) Edition) Global Markets and Competition A Comparative Approach by Henry Thompson (Auburn University, USA) by Obiyathulla Ismath Bacha & Abbas Mirakhor (INCEIF, The Global University of Islamic Finance, This book integrates the microeconomics Malaysia) of international trade with open economy macroeconomics and finance. The theory is This book looks at the similarities and comprehensive but presented with intuitive differences between Islamic capital markets diagrams. The book emphasizes the gains from international and conventional capital markets. The book explains each topic from competition and the limits of trade policy. both the conventional and the Islamic perspective, offering a full understanding of Islamic capital markets, processes, and instruments. Textbook: Request Inspection Copy at [email protected] In addition to a full explanation of Islamic products, the book also ensures a holistic understanding of the dual markets within which Readership: Undergraduates in international economics. Islamic capital markets operate.
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World Scientific Studies in International Economics - Vol 64 Textbook Information Spillovers and Market International Money and Finance Integration in International Finance by Michele Fratianni (University of Ancona, Italy), Andreas Hauskrecht Empirical Analyses (Indiana University, USA) & Catalin Stefanescu (American University, USA) by Suk-Joong Kim (University of Sydney, Australia) This book explores important recent topics in international money The comprehensive empirical evidence and finance, including those on exchange rate regimes, the foreign provided in this book helps readers understand exchange market, balance of payments, parity conditions, international how international financial markets have capital flow, financial crises, and regulatory responses. Each chapter evolved in their linkages and how information covering these topics is written like an academic paper with up-to- processing occurs in relation to sovereign rating events and other date sources and references. Country-specific boxes, short cases and information arrivals. applications are presented for readers to appreciate theories and apply them in the real world. Readership: Graduate students and researchers in international finance, central bankers and capital market participants. Textbook: Request Inspection Copy at [email protected] 624pp Jan 2018 978-981-3223-57-8 US$188 £165 Readership: MBA students and those taking advanced undergraduate, Master’s and PhD courses in Economics and Finance.
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World Scientific Series in Finance - Vol 13 Stock Market Crashes Macroeconomics / Microeconomics Predictable and Unpredictable and What to do About Them Macroeconomic Analysis and Policy by William T Ziemba (UBC & London School of A Systematic Approach Economics, UK), Mikhail Zhitlukhin (The Russian by Joshua E Greene (Singapore Management Academy of Sciences, Russia) & Sebastien Lleo University) (NEOMA Business School, France) This book provides a systematic approach “Bill Ziemba has spent his professional life to analyzing macroeconomic developments, studying financial and other markets and their focusing on macroeconomic accounts, analysis, anomalies. His insights have been very valuable, time and again, for and the effects of selected policies on a nation’s academic researchers and practitioners alike. A highly recommended economy. The first part of the book describes read for anybody interested in financial markets.” Gerd Infanger the data, accounts, and analysis of the four Stanford University and Infanger Investments, LLC main macroeconomic sectors — real, external, fiscal, and monetary — and discusses the accounting and economic relations among Readership: Students, researchers and the general public who are these sectors, using a flow of funds approach. The second part of the interested to understand more about stock market crashes and what book discusses fiscal, monetary, and exchange rate policy and their to do about them. economic implications.
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Analysis of the Korean Stock World Scientific-Now Publishers Series in Market Business Behavioral Finance Approaches Innovative Federal Reserve Policies by Keunsoo Kim (Kyung Hee University, During the Great Financial Crisis South Korea) & Jinho Byun (Ewha Womans edited by Douglas D Evanoff (Federal Reserve University, South Korea) Bank of Chicago, USA), George G Kaufman & A G Malliaris (Loyola University Chicago, USA) This book comprehensively analyzes anomalies in the Korean stock market, including time This book contains discussions of series anomalies such as the January effect, unconventional monetary policies, policy cross-sectional anomalies such as the size effect changes to address systemic and payments and book-to-market effect, and anomalies related to corporate events. systems risks, new macroprudential policies, the ‘stretching’ of the The authors also investigate sales revenue, profitability, valuation (M/B financial safety net, changes in the Fed’s liquidity funding facility (the ratio), and the financial risk of listed companies in the Korean stock discount window), use of the Fed’s balance sheet as a tool of monetary market at both the sectoral level and industrial level. policy, and alternative means to deal with real-estate asset bubbles and potential financial instability. Readership: Professional investors and academicians who are interested in the Korean stock market, Korean and foreign institutional Readership: Finance and economics professionals, and academics investors, graduate scholars studying the Korean stock market. and research economists.
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✔ Title Page ✔ Title Page 2017 Annual Competitiveness Analysis and Impact of Exchange Rates on Foreign 6 Innovations in Insurance, Risk- and Asset Management 25 Direct Investment Inflows to ASEAN Economies Innovative Federal Reserve Policies During The Great Financial Crisis 30 2017 Annual Competitiveness Analysis and Impact of Exchange Rates on Foreign 6 International and Interregional Migration 19 Direct Investment Inflows to Sub-National Economies of India International Economics (4th Edition) 22 2017 Annual Competitiveness Analysis and Impact of Exchange Rates on Foreign 6 International Macroeconomic Interdependence 24 Direct Investment Inflows to Sub-National Economies of Indonesia International Money and Finance 22 2017 Annual Indices for Expatriates and Ordinary Residents on Cost of Living, 11 Wages and Purchasing Power for World’s Major Cities International Trade and Labor Markets 21 2017 Impact Estimation of Exchange Rate on Foreign Direct Investment Inflows 6 International Trade Theory and Competitive Models 19 and Annual Update of Competitiveness Analysis for 34 Greater China Economies International Trade, Capital Flows and Economic Development 19 2030 Vision for ASEAN - China Strategic Partnership 5 Introduction to Derivative Securities, Financial Markets, and Risk Management, 26 3-In-1: Governing A Global Financial Centre 32 An (2nd Edition) Achieving Financial Stability 31 Introduction to Microfinance 10 Advanced Finance Theories 8 Investment Analytics 26 Adventures of a Modern Renaissance Academic in Investing and Gambling, The 23 Investment Strategies for Retirement 30 Analysis of The Korean Stock Market 30 Is This the Asian Century? 7 Balanced, Sustainable and Competitiveness Enhancement Study for Vietnam 6 Islamic Capital Markets (2nd Edition) 22 Blockchain Economics 31 Islamic Perspectives on a Moral Approach to Economics 20 Brazen: Big Banks, Swap Mania and the Fallout 30 Kiasunomics© 14 Brief History of Economics, A (2nd Edition) 19 Klein’s Last Quarterly Econometric Model of The United States 28 Building Inclusive Democracies in ASEAN 7 Lecture Notes in Behavioral Finance 30 Business, Government and Labor 10 Lecture Notes in Fixed Income Fundamentals 32 Capitalism in the 21st Century 15 Lecture Notes in Introduction to Corporate Finance 9 Case Studies for Corporate Finance (In 2 Volumes) 9 Lecture Notes in Market Microstructure and Trading 31 China-ASEAN Relations (Volume 1) 4 Lecture Notes in Public Budgeting and Financial Management 23 China’s 19th Party Congress 32 Lecture Notes in Urban Economics and Urban Policy 12 China’s Belt and Road 4 Lectures in Neuroeconomics 16 China’s Change 4 Macroeconomic Analysis and Policy 23 Chinese Firms Going Global 5 Market Microstructure in Practice (2nd Edition) 29 Climate Change and the Energy Problem (2nd Edition) 14 Mastering Megatrends 14 Contingency Approaches to Corporate Finance (In 4 Volumes) 9 Megaregionalism 2.0 19 Contract, Governance and Transaction Cost Economics 24 Mergers & Acquisitions 8 Contributions to the Economics of International Labor Standards 16 Metals and Energy Finance (2nd Edition) 9 Deterministic and Stochastic Topics in Computational Finance 27 Methodological Dimension of Islamic Economics 15 Developmental State and Millennium Development Goals 10 Nobel Lectures in Economic Sciences (2006-2010) 25 Dimensions of Trade Policy 21 Offshoring 16 Dr Z’s NFL Guidebook 32 Optimization Theory 28 Dynamic Use of Survey Data and High Frequency Model Forecasting, A 25 Policy Externalities and International Trade Agreements 20 East Asian Studies in the Perspective of Regional Integration 5 Pollution Across Borders 12 Economic Analysis of the Rules and Regulations of the World Trade Organization 20 Practical Approach to XVA, A 26 Economic Dynamism, Openness, and Inclusion 24 Pricing Nonmarketed Goods Using Distance Functions 24 Economic Foundations of Risk Management, The 32 Probability and Statistics for Economists 29 Economic Impact in the 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Author Index
Author Page Author Page Author Page Author Page Abdel-khalik A Rashad 30 Fuchs Victor R 17,18 Lehalle Charles-albert 29 Rossi Piercarlo 11 Agarwal Manmohan 7 Galai Dan 9 Leonello Agnese 31 Roy Kartik C 10 Agarwal Sumit 14 Gergaud Olivier 15 Leong Puey Ei 6 Saggi Kamal 20 Aliev Rafik Aziz 28 Glau Kathrin 25 Leung Tim Siu-tang 26 Sandor Richard L 29 Allen David Edmund 8 Glimcher Paul W 16 Li Fujian 5 Sargent Thomas J 29 Amri Mulya 6 Goodstein David L 14 Li Youmei 5 Scheffler Richard M 18 Scherer Matthias 8,25 Anderson Kym 7 Gopalan Sasidaran 6 Lim Linda Y C 10 Schneider Lorenz 25 Ang Swee Hoon 14 Gorg Holger 16 Lim Tai Wei 4 Sculpher Mark 17 Ashenfelter Orley 15 Greene Joshua E 23 Lim Tao Oei 6 Sharma Jigyasa 6 Azid Toseef 20 Grosskopf Shawna 24 Limao Nuno 20 Sharma Suman Kumari 13 Bacha Obiyathulla Ismath 22 Guo Li 4 Linders Daniel 25 Sing Tien Foo 14 Bachman Daniel 28 Guo Xiumei 12 Lipton Alexander 25 Singh Abhay Kumar 8 Bal Peter 12 Guo Yanjun 5 Liu Jiaqi 4,13 Smith Donald J 31 Barrieu Pauline 26 Gurd Bruce 4 Lleo Sebastien 23 Soh Ning En Christabelle 15 Basu Arnab K 16 Haba Kumiko 16 Lothian James R 23 Soin Kanwaljit 17 Beja Jr Edsel L 7 Hanley Aoife 16 Low Linda 30 Song Lin 6 Hansen Lars Peter 29 Belhaj-bouabdallah Yacine 13 Lu Jianren 4 Spadafora Luca 27 Bergin Paul R 24 Hardy Alfredo Toro 21 Luu Nguyen Trieu Duong 6 Spigarelli Francesca 16 Berman Gennady P 27 Hasegawa Tomonori 17 Maclean Leonard C 32 Stefanescu Catalin 22 Besar Mohd Hairul Azrin Haji 20 Hasegawa Toshihiko 17 Madu Christian N 13 Storchmann Karl 15 Bianchi Michele Leonardo 26 Hassapoyannes Katharina 11 Mai Jan-frederik 8 Stoyanov Stoyan 26 Bierman, Jr Harold 8, 9 Hauskrecht Andreas 22 Malliaris Anastasios G 29,30 Suhrcke Marc 17 Bifulco, Jr Robert 23 Haven Emmanuel 8 Manganelli Simone 31 Suzuki Kenichi 4 Binte Ahmad Nursyahida 6 Hazari Bharat R 20 Margaritis Dimitris 24 Swan Melanie 31 Blandford David 11 Healy Joseph C 5 Marinova Dora 12 Takagi Soichiro 31 Botelho Anabela 14 Hey John Denis 15 Matthew Richard M 14 Tan Cheryl 7 Boubaker Sabri 31 Hirao Tomohiro 17 Mccain Roger A 23 Tan Isaac Yang En 11 Brick Ivan E 9 Hirst Neil A C 12 Meilke Karl 10 Tan Khee Giap 6,11 Brown Kerry 32 Holmlund Bertil 25 Mendoza Ronald U 7 Tan Tsiat Siong 12 Tan Yang En Isaac 6 Bryant William David Anthony 14 Hong Yongmiao 29 Meyers William H 10 Tasca Paolo 31 Buchanan Dennis L 9 Hoon Hian Teck 24 Min Aleksey 25 Tassinari Gian Luca 26 Byun Jinho 30 Hu Teh-wei 17 Mirakhor Abbas 22 Tay Simon 7 Calin Ovidiu 27 Ichimura Shinichi 28 Mizobata Satoshi 16 Teehankee Julio C 7 Canterbery E Ray 14,19 Inada Yoshihisa 25 Moffitt Steven D 31 Tettamanti Mario 4 Chan Wai-sum 27 Institute of Advanced Studies, 5 Moreno-serra Rodrigo 17 Thompson Henry 22 Chatterjea Arkadev 26 NTU, Singapore Mucelli Attilio 16 Thong Gui Hong Benjamin 15 Chau Nancy H 16 Intriligator Michael D 14 Mukhlisin Murniati 20 Tse Yiu-kuen 27 Chen Gengxuan 24 Jarrow Robert A 26,32 Munoz-garcia Felix 14 Tsuchiya Osamu 26 Cheng Shou-hsia 17 Je Hyun-jung Jessie 20 Naisbitt Doris 14 Tulkens Henry 13 Cheung Yin-wong 20 Jha Raghbendra 11 Naisbitt John 14 Venezia Itzhak 30 Jiang Fangfei 4 Chiang Tung-liang 17 Nakanishi Noritsugu 21 Villamejor-Mendoza Maria Fe 7 Johnson Thomas G 10 Chichilnisky Graciela 12 Nawrot Katarzyna Anna 16 Vu Tien Loc 6 Jones Ronald W 19 Choudhury Masudul Alam 15 Nguyen Duc Khuong 31 Wang Jing 7 Chuah Hui Yin 6 Josling Timothy 10,11 Nguyen Duy 6,11 Watkins Todd A 10 Clark Ephraim 22 Jozsa, Jr Frank P 33 Nicolas Frank 30 Westerholm Peter Joakim 31 Cox III Eli P 18 Kar Sandip 10 Nie Yongyou 5 Whalley John 7 Crouhy Michel 9 Karim Wazir Jahan 32 Park Donghyun 15 Wiener Zvi 9 38 Dai Xiudian 11 Kaufman George G 29,30,31 Pauly Peter 28 Williams Edward E 27 Dana Leo-paul 21 Keiding Hans 18 Pelzman Joseph 10 Williamson Oliver Eaton 24 Davis Mark H A 9 Khrennikov Andrei Yu 8 Perron Pierre 28 Witte Frank 15,31 Wong Kar-yiu 24 Dempsey Michael Joseph 9 Kim Keunsoo 30 Peyman Hugh 4 Woo Jun Jie 32 Dinar Ariel 14 Kim Suk-joong 22 Plassmann Hilke 16 Wu Xinbo 5 Dobelman John A 27 Kinoshita Soshichi 28 Plummer Michael G 19 Yamada Mitsuo 28 Dror David M 17 Kleer Jerzy 16 Poniachek Harvey 8 Yang Bong Min 17 Duncombe William 23 Klein Lawrence R 28 Poon Ser-huang 8 Yin Feng 5 Dyker David A 11 Kong Tuan Yuen 4 Potts Jason 31 Yinger John 12 Ernst Dieter 19 Konstantinides Dimitrios George 29 Preker Alexander S 17,18 Yip Winnie Chi-Man 17 Espinola-arredondo Ana Fabiola 14 Kreickemeier Udo 21 Prisman Eliezer Z 32 Yong Jiongmin 28 Evanoff Douglas D 29,30,31 Kuboniwa Masaaki 16 Quah Euston 12,13 Yu Xugang 4 Evans Martin D D 24 Kuei Chu-hua 13 Revill Paul 17 Zagst Rudi 25 Fabozzi Frank J 26 La Vina Antonio G M 7 Richardson Martin 21 Zhang Hongzhong 25 Fan Zuojun 4 Laruelle Sophie 29 Rivera-batiz Francisco 19 Zhang Xuyao 6 Farah Paolo 11 Lavi Diamanta Vania 6 Rivera-batiz Luis 19 Zhao Zheng 13 Fare Rolf 24 Lee Andrea Noelle 7 Rizzi Cristiano 4 Zhitlukhin Mikhail 23 Fielding Anthony 11 Lee Bernard 26 Roberts Donna 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