2012 Springer Verlag

When published in its first edition in the 1970s, The New World of Economics was adopted practically everywhere Professors have adopted TNW because they did not have to force students to read it -they want ...

2012 Springer Verlag

For the past 150 years, economics has been treated as a social science in which economies are modeled as a circular flow of income between producers and consumers. In this 'perpetual motion' of interactions between ...

2012 Springer Verlag

Provides step-by-step procedure for building empirically oriented large-scale economic models Facilitates quick learning by isolating problems and providing solutions in an incremental manner Integrates basic modelling tips with data handling to give empirical background to ...

2011 Springer Verlag

The Limits to Growth' (Meadows, 1972) generated unprecedented controversy with its predictions of the eventual collapse of the world's economies. First hailed as a great advance in science, 'The Limits to Growth' was subsequently rejected ...

2011 Springer Verlag

2011 Springer Verlag

This book grasps the opportunity to show the strength of AGMEMOD in terms of baseline analysis at detailed regional and market levels, supported by an experienced team of country-based modellers. This analysis, produced using the ...

2011 Springer Verlag

Rapid--and seemingly accelerating--changes in the economies of developed nations are having a proportional effect on the skill sets required of workers in many new jobs. Work environments are often technology-heavy, while problems are frequently ill-defined ...

2011 Springer Verlag

In this book the theory of social production is systematically formulated in terms and concepts of classical political economy and neo-classical economics. In this way the subject becomes accessible not only to professional researchers in ...

2011 Springer Verlag

The bio-economic modeling approach presented in this book is a result of two distinct developments: by one side, the improvement of bio-physical simulation models applied to agricultural systems and by the other, the evolution of ...

2011 Springer Verlag

This textbook teaches some of the basic econometric methods and the underlying assumptions behind them. It also includes a simple and concise treatment of more advanced topics in spatial correlation, panel data, limited dependent variables, ...

2011 Springer Verlag

Real-life problems are often quite complicated and, for centuries, Mathematics has provided the necessary tools and ideas to formulate these problems mathematically and then help in solving them either exactly or approximately. This book aims ...

2011 Springer Verlag

The aim of this book is to provide an overview of risk management in life insurance companies. The focus is twofold: to provide a broad view of the different topics needed for risk management and ...

2011 Springer Verlag

The management of operational risk in the banking industry has undergone explosive changes over the last decade due to substantial changes in the operational environment. Globalization, deregulation, the use of complex financial products, and changes ...

2011 Springer Verlag

The book aims at presenting technical and financial features of life insurance, non-life insurance, pension plans. The book has been planned assuming non-actuarial readers as its 'natural' target, namely - advanced undergraduate and graduate students ...

2010 Springer Verlag

This book is written for the students and practitioners who are looking for a single introductory Excel-based resource that covers three essential business and analytical skills'Data Analysis, Business Modeling, and Simulation of Complex Problems. The ...

2010 Springer Verlag

Statistics of Financial Markets offers a vivid yet concise introduction to the growing field of statistical application in finance. The reader will learn the basic methods of evaluating option contracts, analysing financial time series, selecting ...

2010 Springer Verlag

Examples using financial markets and economic data illustrate important conceptsR Labs with real-data exercises give students practice in data analysisIntegration of graphical and analytic methods for model selection and model checking quantifyHelps mitigate risks due ...

2010 Springer Verlag

The aim of this book is to offer a comprehensive overview of the economics of ports for scientists, students and professionals. The text is divided into five self-contained parts: the first chapter defines the demand ...

2010 Springer Verlag

Climate change, environmental impact and declining natural resources are driving scientific research and novel technical solutions. Green Energy and Technology serves as a publishing platform for scientific and technological approaches to "green" - i.e., environmentally ...

2010 Springer Verlag

Human and organizational factors have a substantial impact on the performance of planning and scheduling processes. Despite widespread and advanced decision support systems, human decision makers are still crucial to improve the operational performance in ...