Authors:Zvi Bodie, John B. Shoven,
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Keywords: economic, bureau, research, project, report, national, system, aspects, united, states, pension, financial
Number of Pages: 462
Published: 1983-12-01
List price: $97.00
ISBN-10: 0226062813
ISBN-13: 9780226062815

This book provides valuable information and analysis to managers, policymakers, and investment counselors in the rapidly expanding field of pension funding. American workers, too, need answers and insights on how to invest their money and plan for their retirement. fifteen of America’s leading financial analysts address such pressing questions as -What is the current financial status of the elderly, and how vulnerable are they to inflation? -What is the impact of inflation on the private pension system, and what are the effects of alternative indexing schemes? -What roles can the social

Authors:Zvi Bodie, John B. Shoven, David A. Wise,
Publisher: University Of Chicago Pre
Keywords: research, project, report, economic, bureau, pension, economics, national, issues
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 1987-03-01
List price: $86.00
ISBN-10: 0226062848
ISBN-13: 9780226062846

In the past several decades, pension plans have become one of the most significant institutional influences on labor and financial markets in the U.S. In an effort to understand the economic effects of this growth, the National Bureau of Economic Research embarked on a major research project in 1980. Issues in Pension Economics, the third in a series of four projected volumes to result from thsi study, covers a broad range of pension issues and utilizes new and richer data sources than have been previously available. The papers in this volume cover such issues as the interaction of pension-fun

Authors:Zvi Bodie, John B. Shoven, David A. Wise,
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Keywords: research, project, report, economic, bureau, economy, national, pensions
Number of Pages: 210
Published: 1988-01-25
List price: $54.00
ISBN-10: 0226062856
ISBN-13: 9780226062853

Pensions in the U.S. Economy is the fourth in a series on pensions from the National Bureau of Economic Research. For both economists and policymakers, this volume makes a valuable contribution to current research on pensions and the economics of the elderly. The contributors report on retirement saving of individuals and the saving that results from corporate funding of pension plans, and they examine particular aspects of the plans themselves from the employee’s point of view. Steven F. Venti and David A. Wise offer a careful analysis of who contributes to IRAs and why. Benjamin M. Fri

Authors:Charles L. Ballard, Don Fullerton, John B. Shoven, Jo
Publisher: Univ of Chicago Pr (Tx)
Keywords: bureau, economic, research, monograph, national, evaluation, equilibrium, model, tax, policy, general
Number of Pages: 270
Published: 1985-08
List price: $36.00
ISBN-10: 0226036324
ISBN-13: 9780226036328

Authors:John B. Shoven, John Whalley,
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: economic, literature, surveys, cambridge, general, equilibrium, applying
Number of Pages: 312
Published: 1992-05-29
List price: $47.00
ISBN-10: 0521319862
ISBN-13: 9780521319867

The aim of this book is to make more widely available a body of recent research activity that has become known as applied general equilibrium analysis. The central idea underlying this work is to convert the Walrasian general equilibrium structure (formalized in the 1950s by Kenneth Arrow, Gerard Debreu and others) from an abstract representation of an economy into realistic models of actual economies. Numerical, empirically based general equilibrium models can then be used to evaluate concrete policy options by specifying production and demand parameters and incorporating data reflective of r

Authors:James Martin, John Higgins, John Edinger & John Go
Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineer
Keywords: quality, water, reservoir, production, energy
Number of Pages: 376
Published: 2007-09-14
List price: $85.00
ISBN-10: 0784408963
ISBN-13: 9780784408964

The inextricable link between energy production and reservoir water quality poses an ongoing challenge for civil engineers. Energy production processes can influence reservoir water quality, and reservoir water quality can limit energy production. This book on energy production and reservoir water quality brings together the regulatory framework driving the need for technical evaluations and the details of tools presently available for assessing those issues. Along with six case studies, topics discussed in Energy Production and Reservoir Water Quality include: regulatory framework; fundamenta

Authors:John Lipczynski, John Wilson, John Goddard,
Publisher: FT Press
Keywords: policy, strategy, competition, organisation, industrial
Number of Pages: 780
Published: 2005-12-30
List price: $97.50
ISBN-10: 0273688022
ISBN-13: 9780273688020

This new edition of Industrial Organization improves on the success of the first edition, providing a strong link between the theory and analysis of industrial economics and giving real world application of the theory to the business environment. Extensive case studies provide vivid and entertaining descriptions of industrial market structures and business strategies and behaviour. This book is ideally suited to students on an intermediate or advanced level course in Industrial Organisation or Industrial Economics.