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The Economics of COVID-19 contains selected contributions analysing the effects of the global pandemic on macroeconomics, computable general equilibrium models and financial markets, as well as health studies proposing to improve the traditional epidemic models.

Microsimulation Modelling involves the application of simulation methods to micro data for the purposes of evaluating the effectiveness and improving the design of public policy. The field has been applied to many different policies within both government and academia. This handbook describes and discusses the main issues within the field.

Considers the post-WWII transition of Europe from a diverse and disparate continent to the economically integrated European Union.

Addressing the role that the transportation sector plays in business cycle propagation, this title presents an index of the different indicators for this sector to identify its state, and predict its future, using various statistical procedures.

This volume is a scholarly work on the foundations of the role that the moral and ethical law plays on human enterprise comprising economics, finance, society and science. Divided into three parts, theoretical, empirical and application, the study covers a vast area of socio-scientific investigation and is extensively comparative in perspective.

Presents research on some of these key issues such as the impact of obesity on health, children's' healthcare policies, education and health; and many more.

This volume is the first, most comprehensive exposition of the treatise of supranational macroeconomics and provides a challenging study of the progression of the historic movement towards one European family. It draws on the author's extensive field studies, and personal conferences with ranking economists and policy-makers from banks worldwide.

Dedicated to the measurement and definition of market power across a broad array of industries, this text should provide economists and lawyers with an insight into how anti-trust economists actually go about measuring market power in a given industry.

This volume contains a large selection of the invited papers given at the Twelfth Conference of the Association of Cultural Economics International, Rotterdam, 2002, and are grouped into three sections: the cultural industries (movies, television, media), historical aspects (art and music), and policy issues including the management heritage.

Presents the international exchange of scientific information. This series represents a range of geographic and subject matter interests in economics, and includes books from various areas of macroeconomics and microeconomics.

Measuring the Demand for Environmental Quality

Stochastic Models and Option Values

This book contains papers focusing on theoretical and empirical modelling of the labour market covering both wage equilibrium models and models for labour market transition. Contributions range from the theoretical or econometric through to empirical structural methods and exploratory data analysis based on employer and employee level data.

These papers were presented at the International Symposium of Linked Employer-Employee Data, Washington DC, May 1998, to address the creation and analysis of such matched data in an environment that safeguards respondent confidentiality, and looks at the analysis of such linked data, related econometric issues, and creating large-scale linked data.

In March 1998, professional colleagues and students of TN Srinivasan joined together at the Festschrift Conference at Yale to honor his work. This book contains 19 of the contributions which were presented, reflecting the 4 closely related dimensions of trade and development. It deals with the various dimensions of the issue of growth.

Demand studies and understanding consumer behavior remain two of the most important areas of analysis by practicing applied economists and econometricians. This book presents research on the estimation of demand systems and the measurement of consumer preferences.

This analysis of the political economy of government debt is divided into two parts. The first part deals with theoretical issues and the second part concerns empirical applications. Topics covered include behavioural aspects, long term debt strategy, debt neutrality and functional finance.

Empirical Measurement and Analysis of Productivity and Technological Change

Selected papers from a conference held in honour of Professor Dale T. Mortensen upon the occasion of his 65th birthday. It includes papers on some of Professor Dale T. Mortensen's current research topics, as well as additional theoretical papers, and micro- and macro-econometric papers.

A collection of original research papers by a number of industrial organization economists active in the field of Research and Development theory and policy. It covers patent policy, the effects of market structure and the internal organization of the firm on R&D incentives and technical progress, and R&D cooperation and technological spillovers.

The Asian Economy with one common Asian Money is a frontier topic of study in supranational macroeconomics. Part of the "CEA Series", this book examines the prospects of, the justification for, and the implications of the development of a common Asian currency.

This volume covers subject areas such as: A Two-Sector General Equilibrium Model of a Small Open Economy; Non-Traded Goods and Tourism in the Pure Theory of Trade; Tourism, Taxes and Immiserization in a Two-Country Trade Model; Guest Workers and Resident Immiserization; Terms of Trade and Resident Welfare; and Growth in a Dynamic Model of Trade.

This is an updated collection of advanced theories and methods in the field of urban policies and highlights modern urban policies that stem from them. It gives a dynamic perspective on theoretical and methodological knowledge in the field of urban economics, stressing the limits of previous theories and methods, and new developments in the field.

This tribute to the work of Lawrence R. Klein, from all his friends who share a common agenda to relate the study of economics to the studies of mankind, is a learned, erudite exposition of macroeconomics and macroeconomic modeling including national, sectoral, issues exchange rate, environment, international price competitiveness and linkages.

This volume is based on papers delivered at the second CESifo-Delphi Conferences (Munich, November 2003, and Delphi, June 2004), which are jointly organized every two years by CESifo and the Department of International and European Economic Studies of the Athens University of Economics and Business.

Concerned with the methods by which the dynamics of endogenous economic growth systems may be analysed and numerically computed, and with the validation of such numerical computations through qualitative economic reasoning, this book provides an examination of the transitional dynamics of the influential endogenous growth model.

Motivated by recent events and experiences in antitrust enforcement and policy in the United States and the European Union, and new insights and findings from academic research, this book presents a collection of theoretical, empirical and public policy-oriented articles representing recent research on the political-economy of antitrust.

This collection of material on the subject of international comparisons is divided into two main sections: The papers in Part I relate to empirical studies of different sectoral and national income aggregates at both regional and global levels, while the papers in Part II deal with methodological and analytical issues.

Coalitions refer to mergers and acquisitions, cartels, and associations. This book examines sequential coalition formation in oligopolies. The principal aim is the prediction and explanation of the coalition structure - whether an industry will emerge as a monopoly, say, or as a collection of sub-coalitions.

A discussion of various aspects of dynamic behavior of empirical macroeconomic, and in particular, macroeconometric models, is presented in this book. This book addresses in depth several theoretical and practical aspects concerning the modeling and analysis of long-run equilibrium behavior, adjustment dynamics and stability.