Tiger Economies Under Threat: A Comparative Analysis of Malaysias Industrial Prospects and Policy Options
Southeast Asian tiger economies feel threatened by competition from other countries and worry that their growth momentum might be flagging. Even though their growth rates are above the average for the world and for developing countries, they fall short of yesterday s economic performance. The underlying worry is that they presage the beginning of a downward trend, the harbingers of which are lower rates of investment, persistently low rates of total factor productivity and low levels of innovativeness. The South East Asian tigers worries motivate three questions:
Crime and Punishment around the World, Volume 2: The Americas
The second volume of Crime and Punishment around the World encompasses North, Central, and South America, as well as the Caribbean islands. The Navajo Nation of the United States is also included in this volume. With respect to crime and punishment, the Americas are often categorized as having both high violent crime rates and high imprisonment rates. Although the maps in this volume show that these assessments are somewhat accurate, the range of the physical sizes of these countries obscures some of the diversity in crime and punishment patterns.
This new regional political guide covers issues such as the European Union, common currency, NATO and the challenges of security and expansion, immigration, counterterrorism, and important sub-regional issues - unemployment rates in Eastern Europe, religious an labor tensions in France, and much more. This new regional political guide covers issues such as the European Union, common currency, NATO and the challenges of security and expansion, immigration, counterterrorism, and important sub-regional issues - unemployment rates in Eastern Europe, religious an labor tensions in France, and much more.
Solid and transparent data analysis is the most important basis for reliable interpretation of experiments. The technique of parallel spike train recordings using multi-electrode arrangements has been available for many decades now, but only recently gained wide popularity among electro physiologists. Many traditional analysis methods are based on firing rates obtained by trial-averaging, and some of the assumptions for such procedures to work can be ignored without serious consequences.
Real Options Valuation: The Importance of Interest Rate Modelling in Theory and Practice,2 EdThis book analyzes real options valuation for non-constant versus constant interest rates using simulations and historical backtesting. It provides a systematic analysis and compares real options valuation using constant interest rates and the implied forward rates with methods that simulate interest rates stochastically.
