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| An in-depth enquiry on economic subjects cannot always be confined to sharply focused economic papers and essays. Innovative ideas may need a thorough comprehension thanks to books, the most ancient and still the most modern way to cope with complexity.
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| Book: Macroeconomics textbook: Macroeconomics for beginners Students of the first year of economics usually learn the basic functioning of the economy thanks to the IS-LM model. In this site, you will find an overall introduction to the model, its key concepts, and relevant data from all countries in the world. More advanced features of macro-economy receive wide explanations, like how business cycle fluctuations are linked to labour market and international trade.
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| Book: Microeconomics textbook This site presents you the basic neoclassical consumer theory and its opposite alternative, offering empirical papers and data for broad understanding of consumer behaviour. The
theory of the firm begins with a new
theory of monopoly, in turn contrasted with the standard
one. A comprehensive classification of business costs is offered together with a free software and an easy Excel spreadsheet for marginal and average cost computations. The production function is explained and criticised for the case of one productive input. In case of two or more productive inputs, the isoquant concept is presented, given a free software and critically evaluated. Advanced areas, as product differentiation and innovation, are covered as well.
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| Book: Industrial Economics textbook Industrial Growth and Competition - The Role of Technology in Firm Success, Industry Evolution, and Regional and National Growth Prof. Kenneth L. Simons explains in 150 pages all what you need to know about the evolution of new industries, the turnover of corporate leadership, the shakeouts and the industry dynamics linked to concentration, innovation sources, product differentiation. Firm size growth, regional agglomerations of firms, the city dynamics are mapped together with industry evolutionary patterns and evidence about the false myth of the U-Shaped long-run firm cost curve.
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| Book: International Economics textbook The reasons for companies and countries to import, export, invest abroad and operate on currency exchange markets are easily explained, with plenty of real data. A free business game summarizes this part. The main ingredients of the new theories of international economics, such as imperfect competition, economies of scale and product differentiation, are widely discussed. The standard view about comparative advantages is finally compared with a dynamic perspective based on new technologies, core competences, learning and path-dependence. For policy purposes, the hierarchical structure of world trade is presented, both statically and dynamically. In this perspective, bilateral import promotion and special trade relationships with neighbours are suggested.
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| Book: An Artificial Market Model of a Foreign Exchange Market - by Kiyoshi Izumi In this study, the author proposes a new approach to foreign exchange (forex) market studies: the artificial market approach - by integrating fieldwork studies and multiagent computer models in order to explain the micro and macro relation in markets.
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| Book: Econometrics textbook This free textbook about econometrics analysis, methods, and algebra covers themes like regression, ordinary least squares estimation, multicollinearity, omitted variables, generalized least squares, heteroskedasticity , generalized method of moments, bootstrap techniques, time series analysis, vector auto-regressive analysi (VAR), cointegration, non-parametric methods. Large databases for econometric analyses
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| Book: The econometrics of macroeconomic growth This book describes the stylized facts of GDP dynamics over the long term, with growth miracles and disasters, widely presenting the empirical methods used to identify them.
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| Book: Spatial econometrics This book describes the econometric methods useful to analyse regions and other geographical entities.
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| Book: The Dynamics of California’s Biotechnology Industry This 160-pages-long book is an extremely innovative analysis of how biotechnology firms really work and grow with far-reaching lessons for technology policy-makers.
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| Book: How macroeconomics is changing thanks to computer - by Valentino Piana (2000) Macroeconomics is deeply changing thanks to computer. It becomes easier and more realistic, while the process of integration between macroeconomics and other economic disciplines is given a decisive acceleration. From econometrics to formal models, passing through the revolution in teaching and learning techniques, this book offers an up-to-date overview of what is happening.
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| Book: Changing Structure of Global Food Consumption and Trade Shifts in food consumption have led to increased trade and changes in the composition of world agricultural trade. Given different diets, food expenditure and food budget responses to income and price changes vary between developing and developed countries. In developing countries, higher income results in increased demand for meat products, often leading to increased import of live-stock feed.
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| Book:
From Economic Convergence to Convergence
in Affluence? Income Growth, Household Expenditure and the Rise
of Mass Consumption in Britain and West Germany, 1950-1974
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| Book: The politics of trade and industrial policy in Africa: forced consensus?
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| Book: Discovering Artificial Economics - How Agents Learn and Economies Evolve by David F. Batten
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UK
Innovation Strategy
Book: High-Tech Start-Ups and Industry Dynamics in Silicon Valley Using two unique longitudinal databases, Junfu Zhang investigates firm formation, growth, mortality, and migration in Silicon Valley during the 1990s and explain how the region evolved. After extraordinary economic and innovation success in the late 1990s, Silicon Valley entered a deep recession in 2001. This study seeks to answer tough policy-relevant and empirical questions of interest everywhere in the world.
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Emerging macroeconomics This book represents a true revolution in macroeconomics. Prefaced by Joseph Stiglitz, it summarizes a crucial strand of research based on heterogeneous agents addressing and explaining key stylized facts of real world. The present version is still a draft but it represents already a must-read for economists.
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