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Handbook of Field Experiments

  • 1st Edition
  • Volume 1
  • March 21, 2017
  • Esther Duflo + 1 more
  • English
  • Hardback
    9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 4 - 6 3 3 2 4 - 8
  • eBook
    9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 4 - 6 3 3 2 5 - 5
Handbook of Field Experiments provides tactics on how to conduct experimental research, also presenting a comprehensive catalog on new results from research and areas that remain to be explored. This updated addition to the series includes an entire chapters on field experiments, the politics and practice of social experiments, the methodology and practice of RCTs, and the econometrics of randomized experiments. These topics apply to a wide variety of fields, from politics, to education, and firm productivity, providing readers with a resource that sheds light on timely issues, such as robustness and external validity. Separating itself from circumscribed debates of specialists, this volume surpasses in usefulness the many journal articles and narrowly-defined books written by practitioners.

Handbook of Field Experiments

  • 1st Edition
  • Volume 2
  • March 21, 2017
  • Esther Duflo + 1 more
  • English
  • Hardback
    9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 4 - 6 4 0 1 1 - 6
  • eBook
    9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 4 - 6 4 0 1 4 - 7
Handbook of Field Experiments, Volume Two explains how to conduct experimental research, presents a catalog of research to date, and describes which areas remain to be explored. The new volume includes sections on field experiments in education in developing countries, how to design social protection programs, a section on how to combat poverty, and updates on data relating to the impact and determinants of health levels in low-income countries. Separating itself from circumscribed debates of specialists, this volume surpasses the many journal articles and narrowly-defined books written by practitioners. This ongoing series will be of particular interest to scholars working with experimental methods. Users will find results from politics, education, and more.

The Wine Value Chain in China

  • 1st Edition
  • November 21, 2016
  • Roberta Capitello
  • Steve Charters + 1 more
  • English
  • Hardback
    9 7 8 - 0 - 0 8 - 1 0 0 7 5 4 - 9
  • eBook
    9 7 8 - 0 - 0 8 - 1 0 0 7 6 0 - 0
The Wine Value Chain in China: Global Dynamics, Marketing and Communication in the Contemporary Chinese Wine Market presents information on China and its role as a relevant player in the international wine industry, both as supplier and consumer. The book provides new insights into the global dynamics of the wine industry, expanding the knowledge of academics, practitioners, and students on the growing demand for wine in China. Special attention is paid to the supply and demand changes, their impacts on Western wine supply chains, and new market opportunities. The book contributes the latest research findings to increase the understanding of the context of wine consumption in China and the most suitable marketing and communication approaches. The book aims to provide academics with the most adequate methodological tools to study a novice market, with both conceptual and empirical chapters included. The book covers a range of topics, including the behavior of Chinese consumers and their attitudes towards wine, the cultural context of wine in China, the characteristics of the wine supply chain in China and its development, the impact of China on Western wine supply chains, wine marketing and communication in China, wine branding in China, including counterfeiting, wine education in China, the links between wine, food, luxury, and Western products in China, and wine tourism.

Handbook of Commercial Policy

  • 1st Edition
  • Volume 1A
  • November 2, 2016
  • Kyle Bagwell + 1 more
  • English
  • Hardback
    9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 4 - 6 3 2 8 0 - 7
  • eBook
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Handbook of Commercial Policy explores three main topics that permeate the study of commercial policy. The first section presents a broad set of basic empirical facts regarding the pattern and evolution of commercial policy, with the second section investigating the crosscutting legal issues relating to the purpose and design of agreements. Finally, the third section covers key issues of commercial policy in the modern global economy. Every chapter in the book provides coverage from the perspectives of multilateral, and where appropriate, preferential trade agreements. While most other volumes are policy-oriented, this comprehensive guide explores the ways that intellectual thinking and rigor organize research, further making frontier-level synthesis and current theoretical and empirical research accessible to all.

Achieving Inclusive Growth in China Through Vertical Specialization

  • 1st Edition
  • March 17, 2016
  • Wei Wang
  • English
  • Hardback
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  • eBook
    9 7 8 - 0 - 0 8 - 1 0 0 6 2 8 - 3
Vertical Specialization and Inclusive Growth in China discusses the two interrelated developments that have transformed the Chinese economy in recent years. First, the global community has increased calls to foster inclusive economic growth, with China embracing this trend. Second, the explosive growth in China’s trade resulting from international vertical specialization production and trade networks which has complicated the notion of inclusive growth in the Chinese context. This book assesses these two trends quantitatively, giving evidence of the link between vertical specialization and inclusive growth, and then decomposing the inclusive growth effects of vertically specialized trade into six components: GDP growth, export growth, FDI, environment, employment, and innovation. It further explores the differing impact of conventional trade and processing trade on inclusive growth, providing direction for future policy. This second book by the author to consider vertical specialization stresses the importance of integration in driving inclusive growth.

Handbook of Media Economics, vol 1A

  • 1st Edition
  • December 3, 2015
  • Simon P. Anderson + 2 more
  • English
  • Hardback
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  • eBook
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Handbook of Media Economics provides valuable information on a unique field that has its own theories, evidence, and policies. Understanding the media is important for society, and while new technologies are altering the media, they are also affecting our understanding of their economics. The book spans the large scope of media economics, simultaneously offering in-depth analysis of particular topics, including the economics of why media are important, how media work (including financing sources, institutional settings, and regulation), what determines media content (including media bias), and the effects of new technologies. The book provides a powerful introduction for those interested in starting research in media economics.

Handbook of Media Economics, vol 1B

  • 1st Edition
  • Volume 1B
  • December 3, 2015
  • Simon P. Anderson + 2 more
  • English
  • Hardback
    9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 4 - 6 3 6 8 5 - 0
  • eBook
    9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 4 - 6 3 6 8 9 - 8
Handbook of Media Economics provides valuable information on a unique field that has its own theories, evidence, and policies. Understanding the media is important for society, and while new technologies are altering the media, they are also affecting our understanding of their economics. The book spans the large scope of media economics, simultaneously offering in-depth analysis of particular topics, including the economics of why media are important, how media work (including financing sources, institutional settings, and regulation), what determines media content (including media bias), and the effects of new technologies. The book provides a powerful introduction for those interested in starting research in media economics.

Handbook of Media Economics

  • 1st Edition
  • Volume 2V
  • November 17, 2015
  • Simon P. Anderson + 2 more
  • English
  • Hardback
    9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 4 - 6 3 6 9 1 - 1
  • eBook
    9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 4 - 6 3 6 9 5 - 9
Handbook of Media Economics provides valuable information on a unique field that has its own theories, evidence, and policies. Understanding the media is important for society, and while new technologies are altering the media, they are also affecting our understanding of their economics. Chapters span the large scope of media economics, simultaneously offering in-depth analysis of particular topics, including the economics of why media are important, how media work (including financing sources, institutional settings, and regulation), what determines media content (including media bias), and the effects of new technologies. The volumes provide a powerful introduction for those interested in starting research in media economics.

Specialization and Economic Organization

  • 1st Edition
  • Volume 215
  • September 15, 2015
  • X. Yang + 1 more
  • English
  • eBook
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As the subtitle indicates, this book presents a new classical microeconomic framework. It develops a new unifying analytical framework that covers topics concerning international trade, development economics, growth theory, transaction costs economics, comparative economics, management economics, urban economics, industrial organization, and macroeconomics. The new classical microeconomic framework is used to bring the analysis of economies of specialization, the division of labor, and the structure of economic organization into the central place of economics.

The Strategies of China’s Firms

  • 1st Edition
  • July 20, 2015
  • Hailan Yang + 2 more
  • English
  • Hardback
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This book aims to analyze how China’s firms in the consumer electronics (CE) sector have developed their business strategy and corporate governance during the reform process. This book examines the CE sector in particular because it is one of the country’s most important and dynamic manufacturing sectors and one of the earliest market-oriented sectors.