Economic Literacy: Basic Economics with an Attitude

Economic Literacy: Basic Economics with an Attitude
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Economic Literacy: Basic Economics with an Attitude
Frederick S. Weaver
Manufacturer: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
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ASIN: 0742554309

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With wit and verve, Economic Literacy explains the logic, language, and worldview of economic theory and engagingly describes the organization and performance of the U.S. economy. Its combination of theory and description is essential for understanding debates about current affairs, penetrating the literature of economics, and reflecting on the usefulness and limits of economic analysis. Updated throughout, the second edition includes new discussions of social security, tax reform, surging petroleum prices, and the economic effects of the Iraq war and other international issues.

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Not so basic.......2007-02-02

I think this is a good introduction to economic theory. It manages to provide the reader with a fair overview of economic concepts and institutions, including a final chapter on globalization. However I found that throughout the six chapters, the jargon is heavy and the author describes the issues in analytical terms sometimes too advanced for a basic economics text. Some of the graphs, on the other hand, are quite useful.

Annual Editions: Juvenile Delinquency and Justice 06/07 (Annual Editions)
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This second edition of ANNUAL EDITIONS: JUVENILE DELINQUENCY AND JUSTICE provides convenient, inexpensive access to current articles selected from the best of the public press. Organizational features include: an annotated listing of selected World Wide Web sites; an annotated table of contents; a topic guide; a general introduction; brief overviews for each section; a topical index; and an instructor’s resource guide with testing materials. USING ANNUAL EDITIONS IN THE CLASSROOM is offered as a practical guide for instructors. ANNUAL EDITIONS titles are supported by our student website, www.dushkin.com/online.

Annual Editions: Criminal Justice 06/07 (Annual Editions Criminal Justice)

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Annual Editions: Criminal Justice 06/07 (Annual Editions Criminal Justice)
Joseph Victor , and Joanne Naughton
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ASIN: 0073515965

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This thirtieth edition of ANNUAL EDITIONS: CRIMINAL JUSTICE provides convenient, inexpensive access to current articles selected from the best of the public press. Organizational features include: an annotated listing of selected World Wide Web sites; an annotated table of contents; a topic guide; a general introduction; brief overviews for each section; a topical index; and an instructor’s resource guide with testing materials. USING ANNUAL EDITIONS IN THE CLASSROOM is offered as a practical guide for instructors. ANNUAL EDITIONS titles are supported by our student website, www.dushkin.com/online.

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Excellent transaction!.......2007-09-10

The book was shipped extremely quick. Was in original celophane wrapper, in brand new condition as stated. Thank you.

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This book stands out amid the many works critical of mainstream economics for its author’s reader-friendly intention to make accessible the problems of how countries in the South can develop successfully, what to do about social injustice and poverty, and the global environmental destruction that is proceeding apace. Klaus Nürnberger has transcended his background as an economist to present a holistic analysis of the human and environmental failings of our current market economy. He draws on recent thinking in a variety of disciplines, and his arguments relate both to political economy and to people’s worldviews.

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The Political Economy of Independent Ukraine analyzes the reasons for the abysmal economic performance of Ukraine during the 1990s. The main thesis is that economic development was blocked by a set of parasitic mechanisms at all levels of the economy that prevented the development of value-added economic activities. Those parasitic mechanisms already developed under Soviet rule ('beating the system' by redistributing goods and services while disregarding formal rules) became a widespread practice.

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The Political Economy of Independent Ukraine
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The Book of Excellence: 236 Habits of Effective Salespeople
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The Book of Excellence: 236 Habits of Effective Salespeople
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Focusing on the basic habits that are common among business leaders, this book pinpoints characteristics of a successful sales lifestyle. Contains the basic information all sales professionals need to know.

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Good easy read but will you apply what you learn?.......2001-12-21

All Sales Strategy/improvement courses/books are very simple. The problem is that 90% of sales people don't pick up a book in any given year to improve their performance and, of the other 10% who read a book or do something to try and improve their sales results, 90% of them fail to apply what they have learned on a consistent basis.

That means that 99% of people fail to improve their results via books/courses!

Having said that I absolutely enjoyed this book because of is its simplicity, written in true "little book" form. I really like these books as they are quick reads by cutting through 90% of the garbage. Like a previous reviewer stated some, but not most, comments/tips do contradict themselves but I think the author was looking for filler material

They key to getting long-term value out of a book like this is to practice what you read. I know that when I was applying various techniques I learned in the past my results went up on a consistent basis so I am going back to the books and applying the techniques/skills on a more consistent manner.

Whether you like it or not you are selling everyday. You are selling yourself regardless of what you do for a living. You sell yourself to your family, friends, co-workers, etc. You are creating an image in that person's mind of what they associate you with (pain or pleasure).

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A Handbook for Nietzsche's Last Man.......1999-01-02

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Home equity credit lines : fast facts (SuDoc FT 1.32:H 75/2)
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Home equity credit lines : fast facts (SuDoc FT 1.32:H 75/2)

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China's economic performance has been remarkable since the reform process began 15 years ago. Notwithstanding the remarkable achievements that have been made, a number of serious problems remain. This paper discusses the current reform program and the efforts being made to overcome the structural impediments to growth.

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The foreign exchange market is the largest, fastest-growing financial market in the world. Yet conventional macroeconomic approaches do not explain why people trade foreign exchange. At the same time, they fail to explain the short-run determinants of the exchange rate.

These nine innovative essays use a microstructure approach to analyze the workings of the foreign exchange market, with special emphasis on institutional aspects and the actual behavior of market participants. They examine the volume of transactions, heterogeneity of traders, the time of day and location of trading, the bid-ask spread, and the high level of exchange rate volatility that has puzzled many observers. They also consider the structure of the market, including such issues as nontransparency, asymmetric information, liquidity trading, the use of automated brokers, the relationship between spot and derivative markets, and the importance of systemic risk in the market.

This timely volume will be essential reading for anyone interested in the economics of international finance.

Bid/ask spreads in the foreign exchange market: An alternative interpretation [An article from: Pacific-Basin Finance Journal]

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Bid/ask spreads in the foreign exchange market: An alternative interpretation [An article from: Pacific-Basin Finance Journal]
R. Poskitt
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This digital document is a journal article from Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, published by Elsevier in . The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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This paper examines the behavior of the bid/ask spread in the NZD/USD market. Consistent with recent research, I find that many dealers prefer to quote a single spread. Dealers quoting a time-varying spread do not appear to behave in a fashion consistent with microstructure theory. Further analysis shows that the spread's conformance with the predictions of microstructure theory arises from both intraregional and interregional variations in inventory holding costs. This helps explain the apparent paradox that bid/ask spreads in the foreign exchange market behave in accordance with microstructure theory despite the fact that many dealers prefer to quote a single spread.

Dealer behavior and trading systems in foreign exchange markets [An article from: Journal of Financial Economics]

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Dealer behavior and trading systems in foreign exchange markets [An article from: Journal of Financial Economics]
G.H. Bjonnes , and D. Rime
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ASIN: B000RR46G0

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This digital document is a journal article from Journal of Financial Economics, published by Elsevier in 2005. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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We study dealer behavior in the foreign exchange spot market using detailed observations on all the transactions of four interbank dealers. There is strong support for an information effect in incoming trades. The direction of trade is most important, but we also find that the information effect increases with trade size in direct bilateral trades. All four dealers control their inventory intensively. Inventory control is not, however, manifested through a dealer's own prices in contrast to findings by Lyons (J. Financial Econ. 39(1995) 321). Furthermore, we document differences in trading styles, especially how they actually control their inventories.

Herding and the information content of trades in the Australian dollar market [An article from: Pacific-Basin Finance Journal]

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Herding and the information content of trades in the Australian dollar market [An article from: Pacific-Basin Finance Journal]
A. Carpenter , and J. Wang
Manufacturer: Elsevier
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ASIN: B000PDYLKC

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This digital document is a journal article from Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, published by Elsevier in 2007. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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This study shows that the information content of FX transactions depends on the identity of market participants. Using spot FX transactions of a major Australian bank, we find that central banks have the greatest price impact, followed by non-bank financial institutions (NBFIs) such as hedge funds and mutual funds. Trades by non-financial corporations have the least impact on dealer pricing. In the interbank market, dealers with greater private information tend to choose direct trading which has lower post-trade transparency. Indirect trading via brokers is partially revealed to the market and has little price impact. The price impact largely comes from institutions in the top quartile of the trading volume. Furthermore, NBFIs have the greatest propensity for herding, followed by interbank dealers. Non-financial corporations do not herd in their trades. Except for central banks, the differential impact of market participants can largely be explained by their propensity for herding.

Informed and uninformed trading on the Australian dollar [An article from: International Review of Financial Analysis]

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Informed and uninformed trading on the Australian dollar [An article from: International Review of Financial Analysis]
W.P. Hogan , and J.A. Batten
Manufacturer: Elsevier
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This digital document is a journal article from International Review of Financial Analysis, published by Elsevier in 2005. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Using a high-frequency data set of the spot Australian/US dollar, this study examines the distribution of quotes, spreads, and returns across the trading day. By identifying the direction of trade and the subsequent quote returns from contributing banks, the segmented nature of the market into market-makers and informed and uninformed traders is investigated. The results suggest that the economic gain possible from private information is maximised over 2 to 5 quotes and is rapidly eroded by 20 quotes (about 2 min later during busy trading times) as other new information enters the market. Also, the analysis is revealing of discontinuities in trading and the volatility of pricing across the trading day.

Liquidity provision in the overnight foreign exchange market [An article from: Journal of International Money and Finance]

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Liquidity provision in the overnight foreign exchange market [An article from: Journal of International Money and Finance]
G.H. Bjonnes , D. Rime , and H.O.Aa. Solheim
Manufacturer: Elsevier
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ASIN: B000RR1L1S

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This digital document is a journal article from Journal of International Money and Finance, published by Elsevier in 2005. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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We present evidence that non-financial customers are the main liquidity providers in the overnight foreign exchange market using a unique daily data set covering almost all transactions in the SEK/EUR market over almost 10 years. Two main findings support this: (i) the net position of non-financial customers is negatively correlated with the exchange rate, opposed to the positive correlation found for financial customers and (ii) changes in net position of non-financial customers are forecasted by changes in net position of financial customers, indicating that non-financial customers take a passive role consistent with liquidity provision.

Microstructure effects, bid-ask spreads and volatility in the spot foreign exchange market pre and post-EMU [An article from: Global Finance Journal]

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Microstructure effects, bid-ask spreads and volatility in the spot foreign exchange market pre and post-EMU [An article from: Global Finance Journal]
F. McGroarty , O. ap Gwilym , and S. Thomas
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This digital document is a journal article from Global Finance Journal, published by Elsevier in 2006. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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This article examines how microstructure effects, evident in high frequency data, influence bid-ask spreads and volatility in transaction price series. It uses the event of European Monetary Union (EMU), and the upheaval that this entailed, as an opportunity to empirically investigate these relationships in the electronic inter-dealer spot FX market. The microstructure effects relate to both price and time. There are two price effects, namely price discreteness and price clustering, and two time effects, namely the time elapsed between sample periods and the time-gap between successive trades or quoted price submissions. Strong evidence emerges that all four factors are important in the determination of bid-ask spreads. This study uses a unique and rich foreign exchange (FX) dataset of global inter-dealer electronic transactions to examine microstructural effects in the spot foreign exchange market. This dataset enables us to shed new light on the debate surrounding the observations that trading volumes have fallen and bid-ask spreads have widened in inter-dealer spot FX markets following European Monetary Union (EMU). Our work provides a more detailed account of the changes that actually occurred at this time, because our data is more comprehensive than has previously been available. Our four-technical-feature explanation is in contrast to the hypothesis of market maker response to exogenous changes in volume as proposed by Hau, Killeen and Moore [Hau, H., Killeen, W., Moore, M. (2000). The euro as an international currency: Explaining puzzling first evidence. Centre for Economic Policy Research, working paper., Hau, H., Killeen, W, Moore, M. (2002). How has the euro changed the foreign exchange market? Economic Policy 17, 34, 149-191]. Price discreteness means that prices or exchange rates are not an infinite number of digits long, but rather they are truncated to a small number of digits. In the case of the FX market, exchange rates are specified to five digit accuracy. Price clustering refers to the fact that traders may not use all available exchange rates uniformly. In practice, rates ending in 0 or 5 tend to be used more than other rates. The time elapsed between the sample periods is important for a very obvious reason- price levels can differ radically if data is sampled from periods that are far apart in time. On the other hand, the time-gap between successive individual prices is also important because it allows these prices to drift apart. When the successive prices are transaction prices, this effect increases volatility. When they are successive bid and ask prices, the bid-ask spread is increased. EMU brought widespread change to financial markets. Much of this change is directly due to the re-denomination of certain instruments from Deutschemarks (DEM) to euros (EUR). Since these currency units are of different values, the nature of the price discreteness affecting instruments which are now denominated in EUR will be different from what it was under DEM denomination. This point is exemplified by our finding that the smallest sized bid-ask spread and smallest price increment for the EUR are both 74% greater than that for the DEM, after controlling for drift in currency values. Our four proposed factors are successful in explaining the observed changes in bid-ask spreads, but are less able to explain the observed changes in price volatility. Also, our results overwhelmingly accept the price resolution hypothesis explanation for price clustering behavior in the spot FX market and overwhelmingly reject the price attraction hypothesis. In the case of the EUR(DEM)/USD bid-ask spread, we provide a deeper understanding of the technical market features that caused this to increase. We show that the widening of the USD/JPY bid-ask spread seems primarily due to the inter-temporal change in currency value. We also show that the narrowing of EUR(DEM)/CHF bid-ask spreads seems largely due a near 50% decrease in the pricing increment used. We find that increased volume has reduced the time-gap for traded and quoted prices for USD/CHF. Finally, in the case of EUR(DEM)/JPY, we find that market practice caused wider bid-ask spreads. The bid-ask spread data evidence suggests that the advent of EMU seems to have strengthened the USD's position as the dominant international vehicle currency. We consider this surprising because we believe that part of the intention in launching the single currency must surely have been the opposite.

The microstructure of the Canada/U.S. dollar exchange rate: A robustness test [An article from: Economics Letters]

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The microstructure of the Canada/U.S. dollar exchange rate: A robustness test [An article from: Economics Letters]
N. Gradojevic
Manufacturer: Elsevier
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Binding: Digital
ASIN: B000PDTEWC

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This digital document is a journal article from Economics Letters, published by Elsevier in 2007. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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The recent international economics literature suggests that market microstructure effects matter for exchange rate determination and forecasting. This paper investigates performance robustness of the pure microstructure Canada/U.S. dollar exchange rate model. It is found that, when used for forecasting, this microstructure model is very sensitive to the choice of time period and forecasting horizon.

Non-linear, hybrid exchange rate modeling and trading profitability in the foreign exchange market [An article from: Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control]

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Non-linear, hybrid exchange rate modeling and trading profitability in the foreign exchange market [An article from: Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control]
N. Gradojevic
Manufacturer: Elsevier
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Binding: Digital
ASIN: B000PDSNO2

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This digital document is a journal article from Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, published by Elsevier in 2007. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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A neuro-fuzzy decision-making technology is designed and implemented to obtain the optimal daily currency trading rule. It is found that a non-linear, artificial neural network exchange rate microstructure (hybrid) model combined with a fuzzy logic controller generates a set of trading strategies that earn a higher rate of return compared to the simple buy-and-hold strategy. After accounting for realistic transaction costs, the gains from utilizing a dynamic, neuro-fuzzy model are still present.

Profits and speculation in intra-day foreign exchange trading [An article from: Journal of Financial Markets]

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Profits and speculation in intra-day foreign exchange trading [An article from: Journal of Financial Markets]
A. Mende , and L. Menkhoff
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This digital document is a journal article from Journal of Financial Markets, published by Elsevier in 2006. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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This study examines profits and speculation in the USD/EUR trading of a bank in Germany over a four-month period. Dealing activity at the bank generates profits but speculation does not seem to contribute to this. We find that speculative positions fail to become profitable within a 30-min horizon. Also, the suggestion that exchange rate volatility would foster speculative profits cannot be confirmed. To explain daily revenues, neither the bank's speculative trading volume nor its inventory position, but only customer trading emerges as a significant determinant. Furthermore, a spread analysis reveals that there is hardly any room for revenues from speculation.

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Basic business legislation, laws, export-import regulations affecting business, business climate and contacts

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Estonia Business and Industrial Directory (World Business Law Handbook Library)

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Estonia Business and Industrial Directory (World Business Law Handbook Library)

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Estonia Business Law Handbook
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This law handbook contains information on basic business legislation, laws and regulatoins affecting export-import, business, foreign investments, property rights, taxation and banking. (Updated annually)

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Estonia Business Law Handbook
Emerging Markets Investment Center
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ASIN: 0739704559

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This law handbook contains information on basic business legislation, laws and regulatoins affecting export-import, business, foreign investments, property rights, taxation and banking.

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Estonia Business Law Handbook-98
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Estonia Investment and Business Guide (World Business Law Handbook Library)

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Estonia Investment and Business Guide (World Business Law Handbook Library)

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