The importance of country risk is underscored by the existence of several prominent country risk rating agencies. These agencies combine information regarding alternative measures of economic, financial and political risk into associated composite risk ratings. As the accuracy of such country risk measures is open to question, it is necessary to ...
This prestigious volume presents five state-of-the-art survey papers on time series econometrics, and a modern financial econometrics software package. Starting with a survey of recent theoretical developments for time series models with GARCH errors, the contributions go on to examine the bootstrapping of financial time series, developments in ...
The idea that simplicity matters in science is as old as science itself, with the much cited example of Ockham's Razor, 'entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem': entities are not to be multiplied beyond necessity. A problem with Ockham's razor is that nearly everybody seems to accept it, but few are able to define its exact meaning and ...
To a large extent, economic and environmental parameters describe the state of a society in a particular geographic location at a particular time. This book documents the latest modelling changes in integrated economic-environmental systems to guide policy. Arranged in five sections, it firstly addresses the economic and environmental concepts and ...
Nine scholarly papers examine the economic and legal issues fundamental to the intellectual property debate. Topics include economic incentives to innovate, copyright law and infringement, trademarks, IP rights for artists, indigenous knowledge and university research, new knowledge economy and society, country risk and innovation, and legal ...
Comprising of seven up-to-date comprehensive surveys from leading scholars in Econometrics, this book follows the format of the highly successful book, Surveys in Econometrics, edited by Oxley, et al. (Blackwell Publishers 1995). This collection is a unique resource for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students on quantitative/econometrics ...
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