Surveys of Recent Research in Economics

“Innovation, Entrepreneurship, Geography and Growth” provides a timely, accessible review of our understanding of the complex links between innovation, entrepreneurship, geography and growth. Expert contributions provide a thorough roadmap of the developments in research at the interface of these themes. • A timely and accessible review of our understanding of the complex links between innovation, entrepreneurship, geography and growth • A highly comprehensive roadmap of the range of issues addressed by research in these areas • Discusses the most profitable ways forward for enhancing our understanding of arising issues • Contributions from leading experts in the field take a variety of theoretical, empirical and institutional angles

Issues in Finance: Credit, Crises and Policies presents a collection of surveys on key issues surrounding the relationship between credit, finance, and the macro-economy that are linked to the recent global financial crisis. • Presents a timely collection of surveys that shed light on the recent financial crisis • Offers insights for economists in government, business, and finance • Shows how the mainstream economics literature was not blind to the potential problems of the financial framework and its interplay with the macro-economy.

The literature surveys presented in this edited volume provide readers with up-to-date reviews on eleven contemporary topics in finance. • Topics include unconventional monetary policy, implicit bank guarantees, and financial fraud-all linked to the exceptional event of the Global Financial Crisis • Explores how recent studies on inflation risk premia and finance and productivity have benefitted from new empirical methods and the availability of relevant data • Demonstrates how angel investing, venture capital, relationship lending and microfinance have benefitted from increased research as they have become more seasoned • Investigates crowdfunding and crypto-currencies which have both arisen from recent technological developments.

This collection of critical surveys provides readers with a range of up-to-date work from leading scholars in the area, writing on some of the key issues facing China, as they survey the present and future challenges of the Chinese economy • Nine papers provide detailed discussion on key aspects of the past, present and future of the Chinese economy • Leaders in their relevant fields of scholarship tackle some of the critical issues facing China • Contributors identify common themes, including the household registration system, urbanization, demographic transition, inequality and the sustainability of economic growth • Articles provide a critical review of the literature and discuss policy implications and areas for future research.

Nonlinearity, Complexity and Randomness in Economics presents a variety of papers by leading economists, scientists, and philosophers who focus on different aspects of nonlinearity, complexity and randomness, and their implications for economics. A theme of the book is that economics should be based on algorithmic, computable mathematical foundations. • Features an interdisciplinary collection of papers by economists, scientists, and philosophers • Presents new approaches to macroeconomic modelling, agent-based modelling, financial markets, and emergent complexity • Reveals how economics today must be based on algorithmic, computable mathematical foundations.

In this collection of critical surveys the reader is provided with a range of up-to-date work from some of the leading scholars in the area, writing on private and public sector aspects of savings and wealth accumulation. • A survey of savings and wealth accumulation which are important dimensions of research and policy debates • Discusses the measurement of genuine savings and sustainability, the estimation of wealth inequality, and recent developments in consumer credit and defaults • Evaluates the impact of student loans on financial well-being, people's retirement decisions, and the impact of pension reform • Considers the distribution of wealth across generations and the importance of accurately measuring government debt, the rise of sovereign wealth funds and Islamic banking and finance.

Offering a unique picture of recent developments in a range of non-conventional theoretical approaches in economics, this book introduces readers to the study of Analytical Political Economy and the changes within the subject. • Includes a wide range of topics and theoretical approaches that are critically and thoroughly reviewed • Contributions within the book are written according to the highest standards of rigor and clarity that characterize academic work • Provides comprehensive and well-organized surveys of cutting-edge empirical and theoretical work covering an exceptionally wide range of areas and fields • Topics include macroeconomic theories of growth and distribution, agent-based and stock-flow consistent models, financialization and Marxian price and value theory • Investigates exploitation theory, trade theory, the role of expectations and 'animal spirits' on macroeconomic performance as well as empirical research in Marxian economics.

Comprised of 10 surveys by leading scholars, this collection showcases the largest and fastest growing strands of research on market behaviour in experimental economics. • Covers topics such as asset markets, contests, environmental policy, frictions, general equilibrium, labour markets, multi-unit auctions, oligopoly markets, and prediction markets • Focuses on the literature that has helped economists best understand how markets operate • Assesses the impact of developments in theory, policy, and research methods

Economics and History presents six state-of-the-art surveys from some of the leading scholars in cliometrics. The contributions are all written at an accessible level for the non-specialist reader and consider a broad range of issues from this highly topical area. • Written clearly and comprehensively, allowing easy accessibility for the non-specialist reader • Brings together the very latest research in this highly topical subject from leading scholars • Contributions cover a broad range of areas within this subject • The latest publication in the highly successful Surveys of Recent Research in Economics Book Series.

Environmental Economics and Sustainability presents a collection of peer-reviewed research articles contributed by international experts that reveal the current state of our knowledge in the field of environmental economics. • Presents the latest research results on a plethora of issues relating to environmental economics and sustainability • Features original contributions from top experts in the field from around the world • Addresses several of the contemporary challenges of sustainability while infusing new energy into the field of environmental economics • Covers myriad topics relating to environmental economics and sustainability including climate change, air pollution, CO2 emissions, recycling, and the international environmental agreement.