Wspc imprint: 2707 books
Labour Economics and Public Policy
Managing the Labour Markets for Competitiveness
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2017
This book serves as a textbook on labour economics and public policy in labour markets.
It also shows how Singapore has been successful in establishing a world class labour market. One attribute of such a labour market is the high purchasing power of wages for the average worker for essentials...
Bargaining in the Shadow of the Market
Selected Papers on Bilateral and Multilateral Bargaining
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2013
Bargaining in the Shadow of the Market — Selected Papers on Bilateral and Multilateral Bargaining consists of selected research in bargaining carried out by Kalyan Chatterjee by himself and with various co-authors. Chatterjee has been one of the earliest researchers to work on noncooperative bargaining...
How to Create a Successful Business Plan
For Entrepreneurs, Scientists, Managers and Students
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2016
How can all the nuts and bolts of a business be analyzed effectively in one comprehensive model and translated into a business plan? At various points in the life of a business, entrepreneurs will need to take stock of their ideas and plans and reformulate them in business and financial terms. How...
Disrupted Balance
Society at Risk
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2018
Human society is no stranger to catastrophe, but the challenges the world faces today — a ballooning population, intense global connectivity and the unquenchable thirst of human consumption — have synergised to make disruptions more frequent, intense and far reaching.
Despite the complexity...
Sustainability Matters
Environmental and Climate Changes in the Asia-Pacific
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2015
Sustainability Matters is a compilation of some of the best research papers by students from the National University of Singapore's multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary graduate programme in environmental studies, the M.Sc. in Environmental Management [MEM]. This collection is for the period...
by Khee Giap Tan, Nurina Merdikawati, Mulya Amri;Kong Yam Tan
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2016
This book is the only annual study that dissects Indonesia's sub-national competitiveness at both the provincial level (covering 34 provinces) and the regional level (covering six major island groups). Based on a rich dataset of 103 indicators, the study covers four environments of competitiveness:...
Resource and Environmental Economics
Modern Issues and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2009
This important book deals with the essential principles of resource and environmental economics, provides applications to contemporary issues in this field, and outlines and assesses policies being used or proposed for managing the use of environmental and natural resources. Covering specific contemporary...
by Joel P Trachtman
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2015
Trade Law, Domestic Regulation and Development is about the relationship between trade, regulation and development. By combining law and economics perspectives on the international trading system, Trachtman takes an interdisciplinary approach in analyzing the topic of globalization and economic development.
In...
Contemporary Issues in Mediation
Volume 2
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2017
Should mediation be used in all family disputes?
Is the time right for apology legislation in Singapore?
What can mediators learn from improvisation theatre & neuro-linguistic programming?
As the field of mediation continues to grow, so do the issues that face the modern mediator....
Advanced Material Engineering
Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on Advanced Material Engineering
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
This book represents a collection of papers presented at the 2015 International Conference on Advanced Material Engineering (AME 2015), held in Guangzhou, China. With the rapid development of industry and information technology, researchers across all fields began to discuss new ideas related to materials...
Mining Ideas for Diamonds
Comparing China and US IP Practices from Invention Selection to Patent Monetization
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
In 2015, China and the U.S. were among the top three countries in terms of the number of international PCT (Patent Cooperation Treaty) patents filed, together making up 40% of the global share, reported the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).
Not surprisingly, there is a huge international...
Behavioral Finance
The Coming of Age
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2019
The area of behavioral finance, though relatively young, has matured and spread beyond its initial objectives: to demonstrate the fallibility of the efficient market hypothesis, to shake the belief in the ubiquity of rational decision making, and to convince the finance world of the importance of...
by Itzhak Venezia
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2018
This volume presents lecture notes for a course in behavioral finance, most suitable for MBA students, but also adaptable for a PhD class. These lecture notes are based on the author's experience in teaching behavioral finance classes at Bocconi University (at the PhD level) and at the Academic College...
Quantitative Financial Analytics
The Path to Investment Profits
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017
This book provides a comprehensive treatment of the important aspects of investment theory, security analysis, and portfolio selection, with a quantitative emphasis not to be found in most other investment texts.
The statistical analysis framework of markets and institutions in the book meets...