This book includes papers presented at the 11th International Conference “Economies of the Balkan and Eastern European Countries” (EBEEC), held in Bucharest, Romania, in May 2019. It sheds new light on the micro- and macroeconomic developments in the Eastern European and Balkan countries,...

This volume develops original methods of analyzing biased technological progress in the theory and empirics of economic growth and income distribution. Motivated by sharp increases in wage and income inequalities in the world since the beginning of the new century, many macroeconomists have...

Introduction -- Exploratory Classification of Time-Series -- Predicting the tail behaviour of financial time series exchange/Johannesburg stock exchange closing banking indices - Extreme value theory approach -- Financial Econometrics and Systemic Risk -- Monetary Policy Shocks, Financial...

1 Introduction -- 2 ‘Classical’ Techniques of Modelling Trends and Cycles -- 3 Stochastic Trends and Cycles -- 4 Filtering Economic Time Series -- 5 Nonlinear and Nonparametric Trend and Cycle Modelling -- 6 Multivariate Modelling of Trends and Cycles -- 7 Conclusions.

1 Introduction -- 2 Econometric Modelling -- 3 Autoregressive Probability Models -- 4 Structural ECM Models -- 5 Aggregation -- 6 Empirical Money Demand -- 7 Conclusions -- A Technical Appendix -- A.1 Expansion of Polynomials -- A.2 Granger Representation Theorem -- A.3 Concentration of...

Response Models for Marketing Management -- Markets, Data, and Sales Drivers -- Market Response in Stationary Markets -- Design of Static Response Models -- Design of Dynamic Response Models -- Parameter Estimation and Model Testing -- Market Response in Evolving Markets -- Single Marketing Time...

The purpose of this book is twofold. First, this book is an attempt to map the state of quantitative research in Asian tourism and hospitality context and provide a detailed description of the design, implementation, application, and challenges of quantitative methods in tourism in Asia. Second,...

1. Introduction: Reviving the Work of America's Most Original Economist -- 2.Understanding Rents in the Real Economy -- 3. Growth and Rents in the Real Economy -- 4. A New Look at the "Henry George Theorem" -- 5. Savings and Investment: From the Price Mechanism to the Multiplier -- 6. From Craft...

1. Introduction -- 2. European money and culture before 1914 -- 3. The 1920s: Lessons from Weimar -- 4. The Jazz Age: America in the 1920s -- 5. The money-haters: experiments in socialism -- 6. Europe between the world wars: a ferment of ideas -- 7. How Europe’s culture kept money under...

This book offers fresh insights into the economic development and financial markets of Southeastern and Central European countries. The first part analyses macroeconomic trends and monetary policy issues, while the second part explores the development of financial and insurance markets. With...