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  • Regional Perspectives on Policy Evaluation

    by Marco Percoco ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    The evaluation of public policies is of paramount importance for modern policy making, especially in a period of severe budget constraints. The literature has proposed several methods to deal with the issue of causality and counterfactual evaluation in a variety of contexts, with an increasing attention to the local dimension. The book aims to present the state-of-the-art of evaluation techniques ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Geography, Institutions and Regional Economic Performance

    Edited by Riccardo Crescenzi, Marco Percoco ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    The book aims to present “traditional features” of regional science (as geographical concepts and institutions), as well as relatively new topics such as innovation and agglomeration economies. In particular it demonstrates that, contrary to what has been argued by recent economics literature, both geography and institutions (or culture) are relevant for local development. In fact, these phenomena ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

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    Carving Out a Global Niche

    Edited by Peter McKiernan, Danica Purg ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    This book presents hidden champions in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and Turkey that have been studied as a joint project between CEEMAN and IEDC-Bled School of Management, Slovenia. This is an outcome of extensive research undertaken by over 30 researchers and covers 15 countries from Russia to Albania; covering many contexts, political systems, cultures and infrastructures. The reader is ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • National Intellectual Capital and the Financial Crisis in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and Venezuela

    by Carol Yeh-Yun Lin, Leif Edvinsson, Jeffrey Chen, Tord Beding ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    In the first decade of the twenty-first century, the biggest event of worldwide proportion was the 2008 global financial crisis, which was caused primarily by ineffective governance, failed surveillance systems, and implementation flaws. While fiscal and monetary policies succeeded in pulling many countries out of a financial freefall, most economies have performed beneath pre-recession levels as ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Applied Regional Growth and Innovation Models

    Edited by Karima Kourtit, Peter Nijkamp, Robert Stimson ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    Modern spatial-economic systems exhibit a high degree of dynamics as a result of technological progress, demographic evolution or global change. In the past decade, an avalanche of new regional economic growth and innovation models has been put forward. This volume contains a unique collection of operational models of a strong applied nature that may be seen as original landmarks in the rich ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Ghost Cities of China

    The Story of Cities without People in the World's Most Populated Country

    by Wade Shepard ...
    Series series Asian Arguments
    Featuring everything from sports stadiums to shopping malls, hundreds of new cities in China stand empty, with hundreds more set to be built by 2030. Between now and then, the country's urban population will leap to over one billion, as the central government kicks its urbanization initiative into overdrive. In the process, traditional social structures are being torn apart, and a rootless, semi ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Technology and Industrial Parks in Emerging Countries

    Panacea or Pipedream?

    by Daniel Hardy, Andrés Rodríguez-Pose ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    Industrial and technology parks are commonly regarded as a policy panacea. They tend to be considered as the ideal instrument to alleviate an assortment of institutional, political, economic, social and ultimately, technological weaknesses and often form the centrepiece of development strategies. Yet, the real impact of industrial and technology parks, especially in emerging countries is still ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • The Rise and Fall of Urban Economies

    Lessons from San Francisco and Los Angeles

    by Michael Storper, Thomas Kemeny, Naji Makarem, Taner Osman ...
    Series series Innovation and Technology in the World Economy
    Today, the Bay Area is home to the most successful knowledge economy in America, while Los Angeles has fallen progressively further behind its neighbor to the north and a number of other American metropolises. Yet, in 1970, experts would have predicted that L.A. would outpace San Francisco in population, income, economic power, and influence. The usual factors used to explain urban growth—luck, ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

  • National Intellectual Capital

    A Comparison of 40 Countries

    by Carol Yeh-Yun Lin, Leif Edvinsson ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    Over the past decade, knowledge assets and intellectual capital have been attracting an increasing amount of attention, not only from academics and CEOs, but also from national policy makers. To date, most studies of intellectual capital have focused at the organizational level, with an emphasis on explaining the role of “intangible assets” as a differentiator between accounting value and market ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • The Creation of Local Innovation Systems in Emerging Countries

    The Role of Governments, Firms and Universities

    by Marco Ferretti, Adele Parmentola ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book deals with the creation of local innovation systems (LIS) in emerging countries. The authors analyze the role of the government, firms and research centers in the formation of LIS. Special attention is paid to the manner in which different leading actors implement their LIS development strategies. The book presents detailed case studies on different strategies used to implement LIS in ... Read more

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  • Understanding China's Urbanization

    The Great Demographic, Spatial, Economic, and Social Transformation

    by Li Zhang, Richard LeGates, Min Zhao ...
    China's urbanization is one of the great earth-changing phenomena of recent times. The way in which China continues to urbanize will have a critical impact on the world economy, global climate change, international relations and a host of other critical issues. Understanding and responding to China's urbanization is of paramount importance to everyone. This book represents a unique exploration of ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Network Reliability in Practice

    Selected Papers from the Fourth International Symposium on Transportation Network Reliability

    Edited by David Levinson, Henry X. Liu, Michael Bell ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This book contains selected peer-reviewed papers that were presented at the Fourth International Symposium on Transportation Network Reliability (INSTR) Conference held at the University of Minnesota July 22-23, 2010. International scholars, from a variety of disciplines--engineering, economics, geography, planning and transportation—offer varying perspectives on modeling and analysis of the ... Read more

    $89.09 USD