This volume is the outcome of a conference held at New York Universi- ty’s Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (ISAW) on September 30 and October 1, 2016. The conference was entitled “The Mechanics of Extraction: Comparing Principles of Taxation and Tax Compli- ance in the Ancient World.” It was made possible by the generous support of ISAW, the NYU Center for Humaniti…
How states develop the capacity to tax is a question of fundamental importance to political science, legal theory, economics, sociology, and history. Increasingly, scholars believe that China's relative economic decline in the 18th and 19th centuries was related to its weak fiscal institutions and limited revenue. This book argues that this fiscal weakness was fundamentally ideological in natur…
Members of the Pew Fellows Program in Marine Conservation organized this book through their annual meetings and a discussion group on community-based fisheries management. Discussion group members asked knowledgeable co-authors to assist with the development of their chapters, and other authors and chapters were invited to participate based on measures of management progress reported in the lar…
We review the theories on how liquidity affects the required returns of capital assets and the empirical studies that test these theories. The theory predicts that both the level of liquidity and liquidity risk are priced, and empirical studies find the effects of liquidity on asset prices to be statistically significant and economically important, controlling for traditional risk measures and …
Fundamental Analysis For Dummies is a valuable guide for investors who want to know the future. Okay, it’s not a crystal ball, but fundamental analysis will help you gain insight into a company’s staying power, as you evaluate revenue, expenses, assets, liabilities, competitors, management, interest rates, and other key business details. This Dummies resource makes it easy to get a handle o…
The global trading system is undergoing a period of transition. Shifting economic circumstances, major advances in technology and the emergence of new players on the global scene all underscore that we are on the cusp of big changes. Persistent imbalances, driven largely by macro-economic factors, con- tinue to be a cause of concern in some major economies. Even in such a climate of un…
This book will give the reader insight into how to model yield curves in our incomplete and imperfect financial markets. An extensive list of yield curve models are shown and discussed. Using actual market instruments, these models are then applied and the different yield curves are compared. It is assumed that the reader has a basic understanding of the financial instruments available in the m…
The chapters in this book have been brought to publication with the help of an editorial review board dedicated to peer review. The members of the board are committed to the field of environmental taxation and are active participants in environmental taxation events around the world
This book discusses how taxation can contribute to a sustainable economic development. It analyses the role and functions of taxes and tax audits with special focus on sustainable development, considering not only the fiscal functions of taxes but also their economic, social, and environmental effects.
The purpose of this book is to supply, in a form suitable for laymen, guidance in the adoption and execution of an investment policy. Comparatively little will be said here about the technique of analyzing securities; attention will be paid chiefly to investment principles and investors' attitudes. We shall, however, provide a number of condensed comparisons of specific securities--
A Behavioral Approach to Asset Pricing Theory examines the reigning assumptions of asset pricing theory and reconstructs them to incorporate findings from behavioral finance. It constructs a solid, intact structure that challenges classic assumptions and at the same time provides a strong theory and efficient empirical tools
The first edition of the Routledge Handbook of Public Diplomacy was co-edited by Nancy Snow and Philip M. Taylor to provide a comprehensive overview of public diplomacy and national image and perception management. They acknowledged that their survey of public diplomacy reflected the dominance of American and British research findings and developments in the field, but efforts were made to …
Buku berjudul Komunikasi Politik: Pesan, Kepemimpinan dan Khalayak bersumber dari disertasi Bidang Kajian Utama Ilmu Komunikasi, Program Doktor Universitas Padjadjaran Bandung, berjudul “Kredibilitas Opinion Leader Pedesaan (Studi tentang Perubahan Peran Pemuka Pendapat di Desa-Desa Lokasi Industri)”. Disertasi dipertahankan dalam ujian terbuka pada bulan Januari 2004.
The world of money, banking, and financial markets is constantly evolving. Every year, people explore new ways to pay for purchases, save for the future, and borrow to meet current needs. New technology is an ongoing source of change. Internet banking makes it easier than ever for individuals to take control of their finances. And smartphones not only allow American college students to pay…
Like earlier editions, the book serves several markets. It is appropriate for graduate courses in business, economics, and financial engineering. It can be used on advanced undergraduated courses when students have good quantitative skills. Many practitioners involved in derivatives markets find the book useful.
This book draws readers’ attention to the financial aspects of daily life at a corporation by combining a robust mathematical setting and the explanation and derivation of the most popular models of the firm. Intended for third-year undergraduate students of business finance, quantitative finance, and financial mathematics, as well as first-year postgraduate students, it is based on the twin …
“If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.” – Henry Ford, American carmaker Entrepreneurs play a pivotal role in boosting progress, productivity and prosperity. They drive economic growth and create new opportunities. Their innovations transform people’s lives. Yet their enormous contribution is not widely understood – and is often completely overl…
Komunikasi merupakan nafas dari keberlangsungan sebuah organisasi. Suatu organisasi tidak akan berjalan tanpa adanya komunikasi. Komunikasi organisasi pada umumnya membahas tentang struktur dan fungsi organisasi, hubungan antarmanusia, komunikasi dan proses perorganisasian serta budaya organisasi. Komunikasi organisasi diberi batasan sebagai arus pesan dalam suatu jaringan yang sifat hubunganny…
Understanding the nature of a discipline requires us to begin by considering its central concepts. International Security Studies is no different. Much of the literature in this fi eld has been and remains preoccupied with the meaning of ‘security’, but despite everything that has been written over the past two decades, consensus regarding a defi nition of this term has remained elusive…
Buku ini merupakan kajian lanjutan dari buku pertama yang berjudul ‘Paradiplomacy: Kerja sama Luar Negeri Oleh Pemda di Indonesia’ yang telah lebih dulu diterbitkan pada tahun 2013. Penulis berusaha menawarkan kajian paradiplomasi secara lebih konseptual yakni dengan mengkaji secara khusus terkait topik politik paradiplomasi di Indonesia dan isu-isu kedaulatan yang muncul dalam lingkup baha…
Over eleven years have passed since the last NATO sponsored meeting on Fishing which took the form of a Conference held in Trondheim in 1979. The proceedings contained in this book consist of papers presented in support of an Advanced Study Institute on Operations Research and Management in Fishing held at P6voa de Varzim, Portugal from March 25 to April 7 1990. It was originally intended to us…
Eureka…eureka…sebuah reaksi verbal spontan dari seorang Archimides ketika berhasil menemukan formula hasil dari eksperimen dan verifikasi berulang ulang pada satu zat cair yang bernama air. Sementara di belahan dunia yang lain pada abad awal dimana berdasarkan mainstream sejarah, filsafat barat berkembang pada dua dominasi entitas, Athena dengan para sophis (cendekiawan) dan Sparta den…
As with all multiyear projects such as this, we owe a debt to many indi- viduals at a variety of institutions in the United States and abroad. For very thoughtful comments at various stages, we thank Rumi Aoyama, Gregory Chin, Jacques DeLisle, Michael Glosny, Miles Kahler, Evelyn Goh, Avery Goldstein, Andrew Kennedy, Amy King, Wei Liang, Ryan Manuel, Susan Shirk, Michael Tierney, Eric Vo…
Communication in Everyday Life: A Survey of Communication has been written to provide students with a new kind of introduction to the central issues and topics of communication. Accordingly, it can serve as the course textbook for general education courses in communication, as the course textbook for survey courses taken by communication majors, and as a resource for anyone interested in th…