Progress In Economics Research

This series spans the globe presenting leading research in economics. Perhaps it is a sign of the times that economic weapons such as sanctions seem to be as powerful as or more so than tanks. International applications and examples of economic progress are invaluable in a troubled world with economic booms bursting like so many penny balloons. Intraindustry Trade; Inequality, Human Capital, and Trade: Theory and Evidence; Estimation of Duration Models in the Presence of Heterogeneity of Unknown Form; Health and the Process of Economic Development; Monetary Volatility and the Paper-Bill Spread; Habits and Meaning in Alfred Schutz's Action Theory; Tax Evasion in a Transition Economy: Theory and Empirical Evidence from the Former Soviet Union Republic of Moldova; A Tale of Three Cities: Is an Electronic Public Order Book Appropriate for Transition Economies?; Auditors, Actuaries, and Managed Earnings; Using Principal Component Analysis to Explain Term Structure Movements: Performance and Stability; Index.

This series spans the globe presenting leading research in economics. International applications and examples of economic progress are invaluable in a troubled world with economic booms bursting like so many penny balloons. Topics discussed include government and individual strategy for dealing with the increasing post-retirement life expectancy; emergent money and economic cycles; global poverty; modelling the factors that determine the phenomenon of corruption in the Mediterranean and Balkan region; examining the EU-27's international migration distribution; debt in retirement; and corruption and economics.

In this next volume of Progress in Economics Research, chapters discuss the harmfulness of excessive public debt levels in a zero level bound framework; the implications of the Great Recession for scenario forecasting of home prices; Amartya Sen's socio-economic analysis of famines; gender wage gaps from a social perspective; theories and recent developments about the economic and social impact of transport; coherence in policies for providing and regulating global public goods; the perceptions of Gold Coast locals regarding the proposed cruise ship terminal; tourism strategies for rural economic prosperity; and long-term challenges and opportunities in global competition in the automotive industry.

This series spans the globe presenting leading research in economics. It is perhaps a sign of the times that economic weapons such as sanctions seem to be as powerful or more so than tanks. International applications and examples of economic progress are invaluable in a troubled world with economic booms bursting like so many penny balloons.