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“bernhard eckwert”

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  • The Economics of Screening and Risk Sharing in Higher Education

    Human Capital Formation, Income Inequality, and Welfare

    by Bernhard Eckwert, Itzhak Zilcha ...
    The Economics of Screening and Risk Sharing in Higher Education explores advances in information technologies and in statistical and social sciences that have significantly improved the reliability of techniques for screening large populations. These advances are important for higher education worldwide because they affect many of the mechanisms commonly used for rationing the available supply of ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

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  • The Economic Approach to Human Behavior

    by Gary S. Becker ...
    A collection of essays analyzing the economic factors underlying human decision-making from the Nobel Prize–winning American economist.Since his pioneering application of economic analysis to racial discrimination, Gary S. Becker has shown that an economic approach can provide a unified framework for understanding all human behavior. In a highly readable selection of essays Becker applies this ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Economics and Consumer Behavior

    by Angus Deaton, John Muellbauer ...
    This classic text has introduced generations of students to the economic theory of consumer behaviour. Written by 2015 Nobel Laureate Angus Deaton and John Muellbauer, the book begins with a self-contained presentation of the basic theory and its use in applied econometrics. These early chapters also include elementary extensions of the theory to labour supply, durable goods, the consumption ... Read more

    $50.99 USD

  • Cost-Benefit Analysis for Project Appraisal

    by Per-Olov Johansson, Bengt Kriström ...
    Written by two leading experts, this is a compact guide to the key tools and methods necessary to carry out cost-benefit analysis (CBA). The authors use modern economic tools to obtain general equilibrium cost-benefit rules that can be used to evaluate small projects, as well as large and even mega projects. Intertemporal issues like discounting, the shadow price of capital, and the treatment of ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Foundations of Modern Macroeconomics

    by Ben J. Heijdra ...
    The study of macroeconomics can seem a daunting project. The field is complex and sometimes poorly defined and there are a variety of competing approaches. It is easy for the senior bachelor and starting master student to get lost in the forest of macroeconomics and the mathematics it uses extensively. Foundations of Modern Macroeconomics is a guide book for the interested and ambitious student. ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Handbook of Financial Markets: Dynamics and Evolution

    Edited by Klaus Reiner Schenk-Hoppe, Thorsten Hens ...
    Series series Handbooks in Finance
    The models of portfolio selection and asset price dynamics in this volume seek to explain the market dynamics of asset prices. Presenting a range of analytical, empirical, and numerical techniques as well as several different modeling approaches, the authors depict the state of debate on the market selection hypothesis. By explicitly assuming the heterogeneity of investors, they present models ... Read more

    $152.99 USD

  • An Engine, Not a Camera

    How Financial Models Shape Markets

    by Donald MacKenzie ...
    Series series Inside Technology
    In An Engine, Not a Camera, Donald MacKenzie argues that the emergence of modern economic theories of finance affected financial markets in fundamental ways. These new, Nobel Prize-winning theories, based on elegant mathematical models of markets, were not simply external analyses but intrinsic parts of economic processes.Paraphrasing Milton Friedman, MacKenzie says that economic models are an ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Modelling our Changing World

    by Jennifer L. Castle, David F. Hendry ...
    Series series Palgrave Texts in Econometrics
    This open access book focuses on the concepts, tools and techniques needed to successfully model ever-changing time-series data. It emphasizes the need for general models to account for the complexities of the modern world and how these can be applied to a range of issues facing Earth, from modelling volcanic eruptions, carbon dioxide emissions and global temperatures, to modelling unemployment ... Read more

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  • Pricing the Planet's Future

    The Economics of Discounting in an Uncertain World

    by Christian Gollier ...
    Our path of economic development has generated a growing list of environmental problems including the disposal of nuclear waste, exhaustion of natural resources, loss of biodiversity, climate change, and polluted land, air, and water. All these environmental problems raise the crucial challenge of determining what we should and should not do for future generations. It is also central to other ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Human Capital and Economic Growth

    by Andreas Savvides, Thanasis Stengos ...
    This book provides an in-depth investigation of the link between human capital and economic growth. The authors take an innovative approach, examining the determinants of economic growth through a historical overview of the concept of human capital.The text fosters a deep understanding of the connection between human capital and economic growth through the exploration of different theoretical ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • Macroeconomic Theory

    by Jean-Pascal Benassy ...
    This graduate textbook is a primer in macroeconomics. It starts from essential undergraduate macroeconomics and develops the central topics of modern macroeconomic theory in a simple and rigorous manner. All topics essential for first year graduate students are covered. These include rational expectations, intertemporal dynamic models, exogenous and endogenous growth, nonclearing markets and ... Read more

    $93.59 USD

  • Interest and Prices

    Foundations of a Theory of Monetary Policy

    by Michael Woodford ...
    With the collapse of the Bretton Woods system, any pretense of a connection of the world's currencies to any real commodity has been abandoned. Yet since the 1980s, most central banks have abandoned money-growth targets as practical guidelines for monetary policy as well. How then can pure "fiat" currencies be managed so as to create confidence in the stability of national units of account ... Read more

    $93.59 USD