Introduction -- Chapter 1. Theoretical Approach -- Chapter 2. Methodological Approach -- Chapter 3. Analysis of the Power Struggles over the Post-Neoliberal Social Security System Reform in Venezuela -- Chapter 4. Analysis of the Power Struggles over the Post-Neoliberal Social Security System Reform in Ecuador -- Chapter 5. Comparative Analysis of the Power Struggles over the Post-Neoliberal So…
Spot and Futures Markets -- An Introduction to Financial Derivatives -- Discrete-time Security Markets -- Benchmark Models in Continuous Time -- Foreign Market Derivatives -- American Options -- Exotic Options -- Volatility Risk -- Continuous-time Security Markets -- Fixed-income Markets -- Interest Rates and Related Contracts -- Short-Term Rate Models -- Models of Instantaneous Forward Rates -…
Part I: Establishing the VAT and Financial Supplies Benchmarks -- Chapter 1. Theories of Consumption and the Consequences of Partial Taxation of Financial Services (Robert F. van Brederode) -- Part II: Financial Loans and Intermediary Services -- Chapter 2. Taxing Loan Intermediary Services: Theory and Design Considerations (Robert F. van Brederode) -- Chapter 3. Financial Loan Intermediary Ser…
The Domain of New Institutional Economics -- Institutions and the Performance of Economies Over Time -- The Institutional Structure of Production -- Transaction Cost Economics -- Political Institutions and the State -- Electoral Institutions and Political Competition -- Presidential versus Parliamentary Government -- Legislative Process and the Mirroring Principle -- The Performance and Stabili…
Outline of the Book -- The Distributional Impact of Subsidies to Higher Education in the Cross-Sectional Perspective -- Previous Studies -- Empirical Evidence Using GSOEP Data -- The Distributional Impact of Subsidies to Higher Education in the Long Run -- Previous Related Literature -- The Creedy–François Model of Higher-Education Economics as the Basic Framework for our Analysis -- The Dis…
Executive Summary -- Aim of the Study -- The Methodology -- Description of Tax and Social Security Systems -- The Effective Tax Burden in the Analysed Countries -- International and Inter-Regional Comparison -- The Importance of Social Security -- Summary and Conclusions.Taxes on the highly skilled are an important cost factor for companies competing internationally for talent. This book provid…
Executive Summary -- Methodology and Coverage of the Study -- Characteristics and Development of the Tax Systems -- The Effective Tax Burdens in the Assessed Countries -- International Comparison of Effective Tax Burdens -- Supplement: The Impact of Shareholder Taxation -- Summary and Conclusions.The tax burden on investment or companies is an important factor for the attractiveness of a countr…
This volume contains papers that provide an analysis of topics in the following areas: Agent Based Models, Non-linear Time Series Analysis, Financial Market Dynamics, Econo-physics, Deterministic Chaos, Macroeconomic Dynamics. Economics: Complex Windows, does not present contributions to the sterile debate as to the merits of the different grand, or potentially grand paradigms of economics. Rat…
To the Reducibility Hypothesis -- Meritories and Social Interest -- The Autonomous Interest of Society -- The Principles of Economic Sociodynamics -- The Realization of Social Interest -- The Individual, the State and Society -- The Rational Behavior of the State -- Instead of a Conclusion… -- Economic Sociodynamics: Variations on a Given Theme.Grinberg and Rubinstein have written a profound …
Incentive Contracts and Elections -- Overview -- Unobservability and Short-Termism in Long-Term Policies -- Short-Termism and Competition for Incentive Contracts -- Reelection Thresholds -- Effort Incentives and Monetary Rewards -- Limits to Incentive Contracts in Politics -- Rules for Decision-Making and Agenda Setting -- Overiview -- Examples for Agenda Rules -- Flexible Majority Rules -- Dem…