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  • Empirical Applications of the Median Voter Model

    Edited by Joshua Hall, Katherine Starr ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book contains eight empirical applications of the median voter model. There exists a large literature in economics explaining public policy outcomes using the median voter model. The papers in this volume contribute to our understanding of how the institutional context of voting matters for collective decision-making. The authors of this volume apply the median voter model in a variety of ... Read more

    $205.99 CAD

  • Manual of Travel Medicine

    by Joseph Torresi, Sarah McGuinness, Karin Leder, Daniel O’Brien, Tilman Ruff, Mike Starr, Katherine Gibney ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    The fourth edition of this well received book provides an authoritative and up-to-date resource to support good practice in travel medicine, a field that has evolved substantially in recent years. Concretely, there has been intensified monitoring of health problems among travelers, as well as extensive research efforts, which have led to the development of evidence-based approaches to the field ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

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  • Public Support for the Euro

    Essays on Labor Productivity, Monetary Economics, and Political Economy, Vol. 2

    by Felix Roth ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    The long-term sustainability of the euro and the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) depends heavily on their ability to attract widespread public support. The support shown for the euro throughout its first two decades has helped to shield it against populist attempts at the national level to dismantle the common currency. It has granted political legitimacy to the presidents of the European ... Read more

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  • Understanding Japanese Savings

    Does Population Aging Matter?

    by Robert Dekle ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Growth Economies of Asia
    Japan's savings are among the highest in the world, and these high rates have played a valuable role throughout the post-war period. However, over the next several decades, Japan's population will be ageing rapidly. Will this lower Japanese savings rates?Using up-to-date financial and demographical data, author Robert Dekle finds that the answer to this question is an emphatic 'yes'. Understanding ... Read more

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  • Monetary Policy and Unemployment

    The US, Euro-area and Japan

    by Willi Semmler ...
    Series series Routledge International Studies in Money and Banking
    This book pulls together papers presented at a conference in honour of the 1981 Nobel Prize Winner for Economic Science, the late James Tobin. Among the contributors are Olivier Blanchard, Edmund Phelps, Charles Goodhart and Marco Buti.One of the main aims of the conference was to discuss what potential role monetary policy has on economic activity and unemployment reduction in three key currency ... Read more

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  • A Guide to Impact Fees and Housing Affordability

    by Liza K. Bowles, Julian C. Juergensmeyer, James C. Nicholas, Arthur C. Nelson, Dr. ...
    Impact fees are one-time charges that are applied to new residential developments by local governments that are seeking funds to pay for the construction or expansion of public facilities, such as water and sewer systems, schools, libraries, and parks and recreation facilities. In the face of taxpayer revolts against increases in property taxes, impact fees are used increasingly by local ... Read more

    $51.99 CAD

  • An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of States

    How Taxes, Energy, and Worker Freedom Change Everything

    by Stephen Moore, Rex A. Sinquefield, Travis H. Brown, Arthur Laffer ...
    A passionate, detailed, quantified argument for state-level tax reformAn Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of States explains why eliminating or lowering tax burdens at the state level leads to economic growth and wealth creation. A passionate argument for tax reform, the book shows that even states with small populations can benefit enormously with the right policies. The authors’ ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • Food Price Volatility and Its Implications for Food Security and Policy

    Edited by Matthias Kalkuhl, Joachim von Braun, Maximo Torero ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book provides fresh insights into concepts, methods and new research findings on the causes of excessive food price volatility. It also discusses the implications for food security and policy responses to mitigate excessive volatility. The approaches applied by the contributors range from on-the-ground surveys, to panel econometrics and innovative high-frequency time series analysis as well ... Read more

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  • Bailouts

    Public Money, Private Profit

    Edited by Robert Wright ...
    Series series A Columbia / SSRC Book (Privatization of Risk)
    Today's financial crisis is the result of dismal failures on the part of regulators, market analysts, and corporate executives. Yet the response of the American government has been to bail out the very institutions and individuals that have wrought such havoc upon the nation. Are such massive bailouts really called for? Can they succeed?Robert E. Wright and his colleagues provide an unbiased ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Macromodeling Debt and Twin Deficits

    Presenting the Instruments to Reduce Them

    by Wan Latifah ...
    Debt is an important form of financing economic development, especially external debt is in the form of foreign exchange inflows. Exports may not bring in the necessary amount of foreign exchange needed for more imports, or foreign direct investment may not be sufficient for rapid economic development. Debt may bring in benefits/profits or may become a problem of liquidity or solvency. Debt is ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • Public Expenditures for Agricultural and Rural Development in Africa

    Edited by Tewodaj Mogues, Samuel Benin ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Development Economics
    Whereas there is plenty of work looking at macroeconomic effect of public spending on growth and poverty in Africa as well as studies of the impact of spending or investment in one economic sector on outcomes in that sector or on broader welfare measures, this book fills a much needed gap in the research looking how the composition of public spending affects key development outcomes in the region ... Read more

    $108.99 CAD

  • Rural Poverty and Income Dynamics in Asia and Africa

    Edited by Keijiro Otsuka, Jonna P. Estudillo, Yasuyuki Sawada ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Development Economics
    Although there is much interest in poverty reduction, there are few agreed upon strategies to effectively reduce poverty. In this new book, the editors have gathered together various evidences on poverty dynamics, based on panel data from the last few decades in the Philippines, Thailand, Bangladesh and Tamil Nadu in India, compared with more recent data from sub-Saharan Africa. The major finding ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD