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This book addresses wide-ranging topics which are fundamental to our understanding of the current economic crisis.

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Students, researchers, and public sector officials will find that this comprehensive survey of public finance both reviews traditional fiscal policy theories and searches for solutions to contemporary problems by relating theory to practice.

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Analyzes contracting out, the most widely used method of privatization, through the prism of economics.

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A study intended for corporate management concerned with finance and accounting, and their colleagues with similar interest in the academic community.

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Drawing on the world of scholarship and from personal experience, Robert A. Katzmann examines governance in judicial-congressional relations. After identifying problems, he offers ways to improve understanding between the two branches.

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Money Strategies for Americans.
What Americans need to know, regarding their money, and how to keep more of it, rather then outside organizations taking it from them, in the forms of Taxes, and Inflation.

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Credit risk is today one of the most intensely studied topics in quantitative finance. This book provides an introduction and overview for readers who seek an up-to-date reference to the central problems of the field and to the tools currently used to analyze them. The book is aimed at researchers and students in finance, at quantitative analysts i

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Offers a treatment of the conceptual, practical, and empirical foundations for credit risk pricing and risk measurement. This book models credit risk for the purpose of measuring portfolio risk and pricing defaultable bonds, credit derivatives, and other securities exposed to credit risk. It is intended as a resource for researchers and students.

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Why does Japan, with its efficiency-oriented technocracy, periodically adopt welfare-oriented, economically inefficient domestic policies This book shows that Japanese policymakers respond to threats to the ruling party's preeminence by extending income compensation, entitlements, and subsidies with market-oriented retrenchment.

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The authors bring the disciplines of accounting and economics to bear on an examination of the critical role played by the major accounting firms in the ongoing economic recovery of Pacific Rim nations from the Asian financial crisis of the late 1990s.

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For multinational corporations (MNCs), there is arguably no more important operational function that affects all areas of manufacturing, marketing, management, and finance as international transfer pricingthe practicing of supplying products or services across borders from one part of the organization to another.

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From the complexity of today's business world and its daily transactions has come a proliferation of new accounting standards.

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The increasing gap between the theory and practice of accounting should be taken as a warning that academics have emphasized the economics and sociology of accounting, while neglecting the applied science of accounting.

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This book reviews developments taking place in public sector economics, with topics covering issues in both public expenditure and taxation. Trends in public spending, and their determinants, are reviewed along with recent developments in the public choice perspective and the analysis of the demand for public goods.

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Despite the recent downturn in the stock market, the 1990s boom and the shift to defined contribution plans mean that more individuals will have significant wealth upon retirement.

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Unravels the following mystery: how is it that the estate tax, which has been on the books continuously since 1916 and is paid by only the wealthiest two percent of Americans, was repealed in 2001 with broad bipartisan support This work is a portrait of American politics as viewed through the lens of the death tax repeal saga.

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A study of the clearings and debits series is combined with a broad investigation of the contributions these series have made to economic analysis and of the services they have rendered to the economic analyst, historian, and theorist.

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Examining the causes of the acute Latin American debt crisis that began in mid-1982, North American analysts have typically focused on deficiencies in the debtor countries' economic policies and on shocks from the world economy. Much less emphasis has been placed on the role of the region's principal creditors--private banks--in the development of

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The boom in corporate restructuring, accompanied by large increases in debt finance, was one of the most important developments in the U.S. economy in the 1980s.

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