This book provides an introduction and overview to seven applied financial studies on the theme of labour. The studies cover a wide range of topics, from the individual effects of becoming disabled on key aspects of labour market outcomes in Germany, to testing whether there is evidence of compression of morbidity using Health and Retirement Study (HRS) data and analysing the effects of this on the labour supply of older people. The studies employ a variety of applied techniques across a range of countries. This book was originally published as a special issue of Applied Economics.

Product Description: This book provides an introduction and overview to nine applied financial studies on the theme of transport. The studies cover a wide range of topics, from value based trading of real assets in shipping, to the determinants of efficiency and productivity in European railways, to the market for used cars...read more

Product Description: This volume consists of a broad selection of studies on the applied economics of weight and obesity. The chapters cover a wide spectrum of topics, and employ a variety of applied techniques across a range of countries. Some of the issues explored include: the relationship between childhood obesity and food insecurity; adolescent weight gain and social networks; obesity and happiness; the relationship between fast food and obesity; tobacco control; race and gender differences; and consumer health...read more

Product Description: The global financial crisis has sent shockwaves through the world’s economies, and its effects have been deep and wide-reaching. This book brings together a range of applied studies, covering a range of international and regional experience in the area of finance in the context of the global downturn...read more

Product Description: Exchange rate instability and crises are a fact of economic life in today's world of open international capital markets. Yet this was not always the case: for more than a third of a century prior to 1914, the gold standard reconciled open financial markets with stable exchange rates among the currencies of the major industrial countries...read more

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Product Description: This book is a survey of exchange-rate economics. Using the latest econometric techniques, it covers the main theories that explain the determination of exchange rates and utilizes recent empirical data on exchange rate behavior. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Outlines the practical application of a range of recent econometric techniques

Product Description: This reference collection presents the leading papers on theoretical and empirical modelling of exchange rates. Volume 1 "Exchange Rate Determination: Theory and Evidence", consists of four sections. Section 1 contains "goundwork" papers; these are essentially survey papers, which set the scene for much of the theoretical and empirical work presented in the volumes...read more

Product Description: This collection of essays brings together under one cover a number of recent contributions in the area of money and financial markets. All of the contributions, by acknowledged experts in the area, are previously unpublished and range from expert surveys of the relevant literature on money demand analysis and financial market analysis, through international evidence on money demand relationships to path breaking analyses of noise trading and excess volatility in financial markets...read more

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Product Description: This book brings together recent work in open economy macroeconomics from economists working in this field. The contributions, all of which are previously unpublished, range from purely theoretical analyses, through simulation exercises to applied econometric studies...read more

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