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Regulation strategies and economic policies : Essays in Honour of Bernard Corry and Maurice Peston, Volume Three / edited by the late Sami Daniel (formerly Associate Dean, Faculty of Human Sciences, Kingston University, UK), Philip Arestis (University Director of Research, Cambridge Centre for Economic and Public Policy, Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge and Fellow, Wolfson College, UK) and John Grahl (Professor of European Integration, Middlesex University Business School, UK)
Contributor(s): Resource type: Ressourcentyp: Buch (Online)Book (Online)Language: English Series: Essays in honour of Bernard Corry and Maurice Peston ; v. 3Publisher: Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar Publishing, 1999Description: 1 Online-Ressource (256 pages) : illustrationsISBN:- 9781035351015
- 338.9 21
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Summary: This is the third and final volume written in honour of Bernard Corry and Maurice Peston by an internationally renowned group of experts, and focuses on the application of economics to policy advice. The contributors to this volume consider practical policy issues including labour market policy and the problem of unemployment, methodology and econometric analysis, taxation policy, industrial regulation, practical applications of transaction cost theory in the European Union, policy issues such as foreign direct investment and pension reform affecting transition economies and training policies in developing countriesPPN: PPN: 1922105821Package identifier: Produktsigel: ZDB-1-EWE | ZDB-77-EEC | ZDB-77-ECE | ZDB-1-EWE-ebook
Contents: Introduction -- Part I. Labour markets and employment -- 1. The post-redundancy experience and the dynamics of local labour market adjustment -- 2. Flexible labour markets and economic performance -- 3. Firms' strategies and cooperative games -- Part II. Methodological issues in economic policy -- 4. Problems of time-series econometrics -- 5. Why firms invest less but adopt higher capital intensity as the capital stance tightens -- 6. Do shocks matter? -- Part III. Policy issues -- 7. Household production, human capital and optimal linear income taxation -- 8. Ex post value regulation of pharmaceutical prices -- 9. Timing of payment conventions for consumer purchases -- Part IV. Economic policy, transition and development -- 10. China's overseas investment -- 11. Pension reform in central and eastern Europe -- 12. A governmental role in training markets in developing countries -- Index.
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