Product Description: This book is about effective asset allocation. It's not enough to rely on some investment manager's "one-size-fits-all" software to allocate your precious capital: you need to understand the process, and take control. In Understanding Asset Allocation, world-class economist, investment expert, and hedge fund manager Victor Canto shows exactly how to understand the process of assett allocation...read more

Product Description: This work grew out of a series of investigations begun by the authors in 1980 and 1981. Specifically the authors pursued two lines of inquiry. First, to advance the state of the theoretical lit erature to better explain the crises of liberalization which seemed to be afflicting the third world in general and Latin America in particular...read more

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Product Description: State governments are ultimately competitors in their economic policies when people, products and capital are free to move across state borders. Nowhere is this competition more apparent than in the United States where individual states compete to promote economic growth by attracting industry with tax holidays, outright grants, subsidized financing and other means...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Written especially for portfolio managers, financial analysts, and corporate economists, this volume considers the practical implications of government economic policies. The contributors illustrate how incentives and disincentives affect economic behavior and the performance of the economy through an in-depth discussion of monetary, fiscal, and international economic issues...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This is a compilation of research papers written by portfolio strategists to illustrate the investment portfolio applications of supply-side economics. Each chapter identifies a particular portfolio strategy and examines its historical record...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This book explores the practical implications and strategies of fiscal policy for business managers, financial analysts, and investors. Expert contributors provide a lucid presentation of incentive economics and demonstrate how to trace investment implications of government policy...read more

Product Description: United States trade policy has far reaching consequences, only some of which are regularly dealt with in economic literature. This book considers the practical implications of trade policy on U.S. business and the world economic scene...read more