Introduction -- Asia's development model -- Finance in Asia -- Challenges to development & finance -- Financial systems & practice -- Institutional foundations of finance -- Credit risk & commercial banking -- Investment banking & financial innovation -- Debt securities, derivatives & complex...

Real Estate Economics: A Point to Point Handbook introduces the main tools and concepts of real estate (RE) economics. It covers areas such as the relation between RE and the macro-economy, RE finance, investment appraisal, taxation, demand and supply, development, market dynamics and price...

The first edition of Applied Health Economics did an expert job of showing how the availability of large scale data sets and the rapid advancement of advanced econometric techniques can help health economists and health professionals make sense of information better than ever before.The book...

1. Data and survey design -- 2. Describing the dynamics of health -- 3. Describing health care costs -- 4. Reporting heterogeneity in health -- 5. Health and lifestyles -- 6. Smoking and mortality -- 7. Health and retirement -- 8. Health and wages -- 9. Modelling the dynamics of health -- 10....

1. Asia's development model -- 2. Finance in Asia -- 3. Challenges to development and finance -- 4. Financial systems and practice : central banking, regulation and risk management -- 5. Institutional foundations of finance -- 6. Credit risk and commercial banking -- 7. Investment banking and...

1. Real estate (RE) : an overview of the sector -- 2. RE : tools of analysis -- 3. RE in the wider economy -- 4. RE finance : loans, equity withdrawal, and MBSs -- 5. RE as an investment decision -- 6. Demand for office-retail-industrial space -- 7. Housing demand and supply -- 8. Construction...

"Trying to summarize the essentials of macroeconomic theory in the wake of the financial crisis that has shaken not only Western economies but also the macroeconomic profession is no easy task. In particular, the notion that markets are self-correcting and always in equilibrium appears to have...