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Long-term care reforms in OECD countries : successes and failures
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ISBN: 9781447305057 9781447310716 1447305051 9781447305064 9781447310723 1447334647 1447311531 144730506X 9781447311539 Year: 2016 Publisher: Bristol : Policy Press,

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With contributions from a range of experts across OECD countries, this book examines changes in long-term care systems throughout those countries, discussing and comparing key changes in national policies and examining the main successes and failures of recent reforms.

Inflation, causes and effects
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ISBN: 0226313239 1282069896 0226313255 9780226313252 9780226313238 Year: 1982 Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press,

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This volume presents the latest thoughts of a brilliant group of young economists on one of the most persistent economic problems facing the United States and the world, inflation. Rather than attempting an encyclopedic effort or offering specific policy recommendations, the contributors have emphasized the diagnosis of problems and the description of events that economists most thoroughly understand. Reflecting a dozen diverse views-many of which challenge established orthodoxy-they illuminate the economic and political processes involved in this important issue.

Competition and ownership in land passenger transport : selected refereed papers from the 8th International Conference (Thredbo 8), Rio de Janeiro, September 2003
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ISBN: 1280628367 9786610628360 0080456766 9780080456768 0080445802 Year: 2005 Publisher: Amsterdam ; San Diego, Calif. : Elsevier,

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Provides an opportunity to bring together in one volume the papers from the conference held in Thredbo, Australia and the workshop reports. The themes in this volume include competition and regulation, contract specifications, regulatory and planning tools, institutional frameworks, service quality and pricing and performance data and measurement.


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Golden holocaust : origins of the cigarette catastrophe and the case for abolition
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ISBN: 9780520270169 0520270169 9786613587343 0520950437 1280492112 9780520950436 Year: 2011 Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press,

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The cigarette is the deadliest artifact in the history of human civilization. It is also one of the most beguiling, thanks to more than a century of manipulation at the hands of tobacco industry chemists. In Golden Holocaust, Robert N. Proctor draws on reams of formerly-secret industry documents to explore how the cigarette came to be the most widely-used drug on the planet, with six trillion sticks sold per year. He paints a harrowing picture of tobacco manufacturers conspiring to block the recognition of tobacco-cancer hazards, even as they ensnare legions of scientists and politicians in a web of denial. Proctor tells heretofore untold stories of fraud and subterfuge, and he makes the strongest case to date for a simple yet ambitious remedy: a ban on the manufacture and sale of cigarettes.

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Government regulation --- History, 20th century --- Medical --- Psychology --- Persuasive communication --- Self-help --- Smoking --- Tobacco industry --- Tobacco industry. --- Tobacco use --- History --- History. --- Psychopathology --- Addiction. --- Substance abuse & addictions --- General. --- Psychological aspects. --- Adverse effects --- Economics --- Health aspects. --- United States. --- Tobacco Industry --- Government Regulation --- Persuasive Communication --- Tobacco --- Tobacco manufacture and trade --- Tobacco products industry --- Plant products industry --- Health aspects --- Psychological aspects --- E-books --- History, 20th Century --- history --- adverse effects --- psychology --- economics --- Tabac --- Tabagisme --- Industrie --- Histoire --- Aspect sanitaire --- Mass communications --- Sociology of health --- Social psychology --- United States --- Tobacco industry - United States - History --- Tobacco use - Health aspects --- Smoking - Psychological aspects --- Tobacco Industry - history - United States --- Government Regulation - history - United States --- History, 20th Century - United States --- Persuasive Communication - United States --- Smoking - adverse effects - United States --- Smoking - psychology - United States --- Tobacco Industry - economics - United States --- america and tobacco. --- cigarette addiction. --- cigarettes and death. --- dangers of smoking. --- drug addiction. --- drug research literature. --- drugs and health. --- history of cigarettes. --- history of tobacco. --- how to quit smoking. --- medical ethics. --- medical history. --- medical lit. --- medicine. --- public health history. --- public health. --- smoking and cancer. --- smoking kills. --- smoking recovery. --- tobacco addiction. --- tobacco and cancer. --- tobacco and death. --- tobacco business. --- tobacco industry lies. --- tobacco industry. --- tobacco manufacturers. --- tobacco scandal. --- United States of America

Empirical studies of strategic trade policy
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ISBN: 0226454606 9786611223731 1281223735 0226454665 9780226454665 9780226454603 Year: 1994 Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press,

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Since the 1980's, economists have used the concept of strategic trade policy, which takes account of imperfect competition and increasing returns in the international marketplace, to criticize conventional views about free trade. According to the new view, a government can take strategic steps to raise its income at another country's expense-by subsidizing exports or erecting trade barriers, protecting certain firms from foreign competition, or promoting the development of new industries. This volume looks at the experience of specific industries in order to determine the effectiveness of strategic trade policy in promoting economic growth. The nine papers cover the U.S. and European auto industries, the U.S. steel industry, the commercial aircraft industry, airline deregulation in Scandinavia, and labor and industrial policy in Korea and Taiwan. The authors refine the basic techniques for measuring policy effectiveness, extend them to encompass industry dynamics, and test the implications of new trade models. International economists and trade experts in government and business will find important new insights into the role of strategic trade policy in international competitiveness.

A rational expectations approach to macroeconometrics - testing policy inefectiveness and efficient-markets models
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ISBN: 0226531864 0226531872 9786611125899 128112589X 0226531929 9780226531922 9780226531878 9780226531922 9780226531861 Year: 1983 Publisher: Chicago, IL : University of Chicago Press,

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A Rational Expectations Approach to Macroeconometrics pursues a rational expectations approach to the estimation of a class of models widely discussed in the macroeconomics and finance literature: those which emphasize the effects from unanticipated, rather than anticipated, movements in variables. In this volume, Fredrick S. Mishkin first theoretically develops and discusses a unified econometric treatment of these models and then shows how to estimate them with an annotated computer program.

The fable of the keiretsu : urban legends of the Japanese economy
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ISBN: 0226532704 9786612537417 0226532720 1282537415 9780226532721 9780226532707 9781282537415 6612537418 Year: 2006 Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press,

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For Western economists and journalists, the most distinctive facet of the post-war Japanese business world has been the keiretsu, or the insular business alliances among powerful corporations. Within keiretsu groups, argue these observers, firms preferentially trade, lend money, take and receive technical and financial assistance, and cement their ties through cross-shareholding agreements. In The Fable of the Keiretsu, Yoshiro Miwa and J. Mark Ramseyer demonstrate that all this talk is really just urban legend. In their insightful analysis, the authors show that the very idea of the keiretsu was created and propagated by Marxist scholars in post-war Japan. Western scholars merely repatriated the legend to show the culturally contingent nature of modern economic analysis. Laying waste to the notion of keiretsu, the authors debunk several related "facts" as well: that Japanese firms maintain special arrangements with a "main bank," that firms are systematically poorly managed, and that the Japanese government guided post-war growth. In demolishing these long-held assumptions, they offer one of the few reliable chronicles of the realities of Japanese business.

Taxation in the global economy
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ISBN: 0226705919 0226705927 9786611431068 1281431060 0226705889 9780226705880 9780226705910 Year: 1990 Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press,

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The increasing globalization of economic activity is bringing an awareness of the international consequences of tax policy. The move toward the common European market in 1992 raises the important question of how inefficiencies in the various tax systems-such as self-defeating tax competition among member nations-will be addressed. As barriers to trade and investment tumble, cross-national differences in tax structures may loom larger and create incentives for relocations of capital and labor; and efficient and equitable income tax systems are becoming more difficult to administer and enforce, particularly because of the growing importance of multinational enterprises. What will be the role of tax policy in this more integrated world economy? Assaf Razin and Joel Slemrod gathered experts from two traditionally distinct specialties, taxation and international economics, to lay the groundwork for understanding these issues, which will require the attention of scholars and policymakers for years to come. Contributors describe the basic provisions of the U.S. tax code with respect to international transactions, highlighting the changes contained in the U.S. Tax Reform Act of 1986; explore the ways that tax systems influence the decisions of multinationals; examine the effect of taxation on trade patterns and capital flows; and discuss the implications of the opening world economy for the design of optimal international tax policy. The papers will prove valuable not only to scholars and students, but to government economists and international tax lawyers as well.

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Taxes --- International economic relations --- Income tax --- Corporations, American --- International business enterprises --- Foreign income --- Taxation --- AA / International- internationaal --- US / United States of America - USA - Verenigde Staten - Etats Unis --- 336.212.0 --- 336.212.2 --- 336.214 --- 336.61 --- 336.201 --- 336.225 --- NBB congres --- Belasting op de inkomsten: algemeenheden. --- Belastingen op inkomsten uit effecten. --- Belastingstelsel van de genootschappen. --- Financieel beleid. --- Fiscaal regime: structuur en evolutie. Fiscale hervorming. --- Omzetbelasting, belasting over de toegevoegde waarde. --- Conferences - Meetings --- E-books --- Business enterprises, International --- Corporations, International --- Global corporations --- International corporations --- MNEs (International business enterprises) --- Multinational corporations --- Multinational enterprises --- Transnational corporations --- Business enterprises --- Corporations --- Joint ventures --- Foreign income. --- Taxation. --- Belasting op de inkomsten: algemeenheden --- Belastingen op inkomsten uit effecten --- Belastingstelsel van de genootschappen --- Financieel beleid --- Fiscaal regime: structuur en evolutie. Fiscale hervorming --- Omzetbelasting, belasting over de toegevoegde waarde --- Income tax - United States - Foreign income --- Corporations, American - Taxation --- International business enterprises - Taxation - United States --- taxation, globalization, international, competition, investment, trade, relocation, capital, labor, income, equity, multinationals, tax policy, economy, economics, finance, business, nonfiction, petroleum, transfer prices, corporations, wages, efficiency, border taxes, government, regulation, japan, integration, incentives, value-added, dividends, repatriation.

The Internationalization of equity markets
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ISBN: 0226260011 9786611430931 1281430935 0226260216 9780226260211 Year: 1994 Volume: *11 Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press,

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This timely volume addresses three important recent trends in the internationalization of United States equity markets: extensive market integration through foreign investment and links among stock prices around the world; increasing securitization as countries such as Japan come to rely more than ever before on markets in equities and bonds at the expense of banks; and the opening of national financial systems of newly industrializing countries to international financial flows and institutions, as governments remove capital controls and other barriers. Eight essays examine such issues as the current extent of international market integration, gains to U.S. investors through international diversification, home-country bias in investing, the role of time and location around the world in stock trading, and the behavior of country funds. Other, long-standing questions about equity markets are also addressed, including market efficiency and the accuracy of models of expected returns, with a particular focus on variances, covariances, and the price of risk according to the Capital Asset Pricing Model.

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International finance --- Investments, Foreign --- -Portfolio management --- -Securities --- -Stock exchanges --- -International finance --- -AA / International- internationaal --- 305.91 --- NBB congres --- beleggingen --- beurswezen --- investeringen, internationaal --- kapitaalmarkt, internationaal --- portfoliobeheer --- Securities --- -Investments, Foreign --- -332.632 --- Capital exports --- Capital imports --- FDI (Foreign direct investment) --- Foreign direct investment --- Foreign investment --- Foreign investments --- International investment --- Offshore investments --- Outward investments --- Capital movements --- Investments --- Investment management --- Investment analysis --- Bulls and bears --- Commercial corners --- Corners, Commercial --- Equity markets --- Exchanges, Securities --- Exchanges, Stock --- Securities exchanges --- Stock-exchange --- Stock markets --- Capital market --- Efficient market theory --- Speculation --- International monetary system --- International money --- Finance --- International economic relations --- Blue sky laws --- Capitalization (Finance) --- Investment securities --- Portfolio --- Scrip --- Securities law --- Underwriting --- Investment banking --- Congresses --- Econometrie van de financiële activa. Portfolio allocation en management. CAPM. Bubbles. --- Law and legislation --- Portfolio management --- Stock exchanges --- 332.632 --- AA / International- internationaal --- Econometrie van de financiële activa. Portfolio allocation en management. CAPM. Bubbles --- E-books --- Investments [Foreign ] --- Securities - Congresses. --- International fianance - Congresses. --- Stock exchanges - Congresses. --- Portfolio management - Congresses. --- internationalization, market integration, foreign investment, stock prices, japan, equities, bonds, banking, national financial systems, government, regulation, nonfiction, finance, economics, diversification, investors, investing, trading, country funds, returns, efficiency, capital asset pricing model, controls, risk, covariances, variances, securities, portfolio management, business cycles, volume spillovers, price volatility.

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