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Provides an analysis of the progress made in the field of entrepreneurship education by looking in particular at the contributions made to theory and at the challenges that keep emerging in practice. The authors build two different frameworks of analysis in order to examine recent literature on entrepreneurial education.

Updates an earlier review by the authors. This book includes reviews of recent studies on topics that were covered in the earlier survey, and summarises research on new topics. These new topics cover a broad gamut of issues, ranging from hedge funds' use of leverage and exposure to different risks to their impact on various asset markets.

Provides a compact introduction to academic research on market efficiency, behavioural finance, and fundamental analysis. The book is dedicated to the kind of decision-driven and prospectively-focused research that is much needed in a market constantly seeking to become more efficient.

Bifurcation of Macroeconometric Models and Robustness of Dynamical Inferences provides an overview of the classes of macroeconometric models for which bifurcation experiments have so far been run, and emphasizes the implications for lack of robustness of conventional dynamical inferences from macroeconometric policy simulations.

Examines the relevance of academic research to the most senior levels of the marketing profession, the chief marketing officer (CMO), and the interests of their C-suite colleagues, particularly those of the chief executive officer (CEO) and chief financial officer (CFO).

Tracks the evolution of US science policy research largely as it has been conducted in universities and supported by the National Science Foundation, from its beginnings in the early 1960s to the present, from reliance on expert opinion to more systematic, empirical studies.

A monograph that intends to review the main contributions of game theory in water resources over the past 70 years. It aims to compare the set of issues faced by water resources and those the sector is most likely to face in the coming future. Based on this comparison, a future research agenda and priorities will be proposed.

To what extent does retail therapy really work? This book seeks to address this question by adopting a tripartie approach: motivational (the goals and motives that consumers have for shopping); behavioral (the activities that consumers engage in during the shopping process); and emotional (the feelings that consumers experience while shopping).

Summarizes a burgeoning research domain focused on understanding the content, governance, and structure of network relations in the entrepreneurial context.

A monograph that seeks to assess the contributions of the entrepreneurial orientation concept, provide an overview of the extant EO literature, and evaluate the state of EO research. It also highlights possible avenues for future research, and concludes with a discussion of specific areas where EO research is lacking.

A monograph that presents a more complete understanding of both the critical national features and the underlying processes affecting participation in business creation.

Provides an overview of revenue management (RM) and discusses approaches that firms can use to more profitably manage and define the ways in which they sell their capacity. The book offers an in-depth discussion of the roles that price, time, and space play in RM, and discusses marketing and customer conflicts that arise from the application of RM.

Describes what the authors consider are fundamental building blocks for geometric computer vision or structure-from-motion: epipolar geometry, pose and motion estimation, 3D scene modeling, and bundle adjustment. The main goal is to highlight the core principles of these, which are independent of specific camera models.

Provides the most comprehensive review of all major research domains involving credit default swaps (CDS). CDS have been growing in importance in the global financial markets. However, their role has been hotly debated, in industry and academia, particularly since the credit crisis of 2007-2009.

Details the important econometric area of efficiency estimation, both past approaches as well as new methodology. There are two main camps in efficiency analysis: Data Envelopment Analysis and Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA). This volume focuses exclusively on SFA.

International transfer pricing determines how the worldwide income of a multinational corporation is divided among countries for income tax purposes when transactions occur within the firm. This review examines economics, accounting, legal research, and tax practitioner literatures on international transfer pricing.

Reviews what economists do and do not know about the effectiveness and cost effectiveness of pollution monitoring and enforcement. The focus is mainly on lessons for and from the US policy environment, but discusses important research findings from international settings as well.

Provides an overview of how liquidity is measured and of specialized issues in liquidity measurement. The book also examines what is known about cross-sectional and time-series patterns in liquidity. The authors then review how liquidity relates to the corporate finance literature.

A monograph that offers a model and examples of relevant relationships to show how the complexity of family entrepreneurship could be disentangled in order to generate interesting research questions.

Explains the various shifts in the balance of power between a group of large international vertically integrated firms (the Seven Sisters), and a group of oil producing countries (OPEC) in the fight for control over global oil markets.

Takes an in-depth look at corporate governance mechanisms in entrepreneurial firms, and offers an explanation on how and why they differ from those mechanisms in large and publicly traded corporations.

Explores policy interventions aimed at improving water allocation decisions and assesses the impact on regions and sectors by including both macro and micro considerations in a unified analytical framework.

Reviews the theoretical literature on disclosure, tying it to the recent policy debate on whether stress-test results should be disclosed. The authors review the nature of stress tests required by the Dodd-Frank act and conducted by the Federal Reserve, an important aspect of which is the public disclosure of the results.

Analyses and compares the policy responses in the United Kingdom and the United States to the mad cow disease crisis. The book draws a number of lessons from the mad cow experience regarding how one should regulate invasive species risks and deal with dimly understood but potentially serious risks to large populations.

Puts into perspective one of the most persistent empirical phenomena in finance: equity home bias. The book provides a review of the competing measures of home bias, the explanations for the equity home bias, and lay out the implications of international under-diversification for portfolio formation and the cost of capital of companies.

Surveys for a general audience the Datalog language, recursive query processing, and optimization techniques. Topics covered include the core Datalog language and various extensions, semantics, query optimizations, magic-sets optimizations, incremental view maintenance, aggregates, negation, and types.

Reviews some of the key theoretical results and empirical findings in the recent literature on short-term forecasting, and translate these findings into economically meaningful techniques to facilitate their widespread application to compute short-term forecasts in economics, and to monitor the ongoing business cycle developments in real time.

Focuses on the creation of good jobs for the young. The book reviews the main factors influencing youth unemployment and the transition into the work force, and provides an overview of young people's situations in major world regions, with a particular emphasis on the role of training systems and complementary active labour market policies.

Focuses on accounting disclosure within a non-contractual setting in which Revelation Principle does not apply. The book examines a setting featuring a sender - a firm manager or a sell-side equity analyst - who has some information about a firm to communicate to a receiver - an investor - to help value the firm.

Provides a thorough examination of this topic for students and researchers alike. While nonparametric estimators are widely used to estimate the productive efficiency of firms and other organizations, it is often done without any attempt to make statistical inference.