Bøger i Contributions to Economics serien

The unconditional basic income (UBI) has attracted renewed attention in academia, as well as in public discussions in recent years, and much has been written on the possible consequences of a UBI.

This book discusses various aspects of blockchains in economic systems and investment strategies in crypto markets. Further, it examines the opportunities and limitations of the taxation of crypto currency, as well as the political implications, such as regulation of speculation with crypto currencies.

This book studies the economic recovery of individual European Union member states more than ten years after the beginning of the global economic crisis.

This book offers important new insights into recent advances and perspectives in the field of political economy of development in Southeastern European countries.

This book addresses current challenges in public administration and regional management in Russia. By taking into account socio-economic factors, as well as key ethnic, cultural and social processes in multicultural regions, it identifies the prerequisites for successful public governance and regional management.

This book investigates whether legal reforms intended to create a market-friendly regulatory business environment have a positive impact on economic and financial outcomes.

This book provides a unique study of the role of universities, as organisation systems, in the pursuit of the Europe 2020 strategy. In this regard, the book examines two new member states - Slovenia and Croatia - and two potential EU candidate states - Serbia and Kosovo - in the Western Balkans.

This bookinvestigates the impact of International Monetary Fund (IMF) programmes onmacroeconomic instability and economic growth in recipient countries.

It provides a simple but rigorous game-theoretic framework in order to analyse operational alternatives for a whole range of typical conflicts Western military forces are facing, including the most recent ones such as Anti-Access/Area-Denial and supporting host nations' counterinsurgency campaigns.

In this book the author develops a new approach to uncertainty in economics, which calls for a fundamental change in the methodology of economics.

This book analyzes the role played by initial endowments and colonizer identity in seeking to explain institutional development in former colonies. It presents a model of two styles of imperialism that integrates the colonial origin and endowment views explaining current institutions.

This book contributes to our understanding of the reasons for the uneven geographic emergence and distribution of innovative start-ups and human capital, analyzing the role of the regional knowledge base and specifically academic knowledge.

social entrepreneurship - opportunity identification, resource mobilisation, social value, capabilities of social entrepreneurs and innovation in three different types of social enterprises - (i) non-profit or charitable ones;

This study investigates the complex link between natural disasters, individual behaviour - in the form of an individual's risk-taking propensity and level of trust - and the demand for microinsurance.

This book analyzes the consequences that would arise if Germany's means-tested unemployment benefits were replaced with an unconditional basic income.

This book examines new classical macroeconomics from a comparative and critical point of view that confronts the original texts and later comments as a first dimension of comparison. Its central question points to the real nature of new classical macroeconomics: what consequences are grounded by the assumptions new classicals used.

This book contributes to the debate on the decoupling of emerging economies from the advanced economies with a new, empirical investigation approach.

This book offers an in-depth analysis of the Brazilian sugarcane complex with a special focus on technological advances that promote sustainable development.

This book analyzes the evolution of foreign trade cooperation between Russia and China in the context of the rapidly growing global economy, especially in the Asian-Pacific region. The authors describe characteristics of national innovational economies with examples from countries in the Asian-Pacific region.

This is one of the first econometric analyses of the EU's present lead indicator for sustainable development, offering a comprehensive analysis of the interrelationship between ecology and the economy as well as a quantitative analysis of the latest dataset.

This book discusses skill formation, upskilling of workers, and their interaction with technological change in Gulf countries. A comprehensive investigation of the skill problem and an elaborate in-depth analysis to assess the causes, consequences and relationships between poor skills and technological performance are highlights of this book.

In this book, factual business data shows and economic models explain how restrictive trade practices result in elimination of efficient competitors in export markets. It serves as a practical guide on how to conduct trade policy and avoid pitfalls.

The author critically scrutinizes and enhances the RIS (Regional Innovation System) approach, discussing innovation as a technological, institutional and evolutionary process. Moreover, she advances the ongoing discourse on the role of space and technological proximity in the process of innovation and technological externalities.

This fascinating and timely work explores in detail the changes in the Indian banking sector over the last 20 years, and puts them into a comparative perspective with the Chinese banking sector.

This book evaluates the successes, failures, and factors that influence the competition for public bus transport services.

Economic theory and empirical research confirm that the rising international integration caused an increase in aggregate income at least for the industrialized countries, although trade liberalization is no Pareto improvement.

Economic globalisation and technological change are the two issues that concerned people in the past, concern them today and will concern them in the future - all over the world, poor or rich.

Consumer credit has become a topical issue for researchers, regulators and the banking industry in Europe as a result of increasing market integration, regulatory changes and a growing tendency of households to use debt to finance consumption.

The main research problem addressed in the book is the one regarding the role that export diversification could play for enhancing economic growth in Colombia, both in terms of new products and new geographic markets.