“…It re-examines dominant approaches and their legacies of global/local and center/periphery, and offers new directions for understanding television’s contemporary incarnations.The chapters in this collection take up the format phenomena from around the globe, including the Middle East, Western and Eastern Europe, South and West Africa, South and East Asia, Australia and New Zealand, North America, South America, and the Caribbean. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Mastering the pandemic: Challenges and opportunities for non-urban mobility after Covid-19 -- How Covid-19 has changed travel behaviour -- The impact of Covid-19 on the decarbonisation of non-urban passenger transport -- Recover, Reshape, Reshape+: Three possible futures for non-urban passenger transport -- Non-urban passenger transport in the Recover scenario -- Paradigm change: Non-urban transport in the Reshape scenario -- Reshape+: Reinforcing Reshape -- Demand for non-urban passenger transport: Quick recovery and continued growth -- Air travel will dominate intercity trips -- Global transport activity is shifting to Asia -- CO2 emissions from non-urban passenger transport: Decoupling emissions from demand -- Well-to-tank emissions become more important -- OECD countries have the greatest potential to decarbonise -- Fair decarbonisation: Reducing non-urban passenger emissions in equitable ways -- Environmental equity of transport decisions -- Carbon taxes must not harm the less well-off -- Quantifying the equitability of non-urban transport -- Policy recommendations -- Increase the price of high-carbon non-urban transport to encourage clean alternatives -- Create Covid-19 recovery packages that boost sustainable non-urban transport -- Align decarbonisation policies across the transport and energy sectors to reflect the reliance of zero-carbon transport on clean energy -- Mandate the use of alternative fuels in aviation to encourage long-term innovation -- Incentivise the transition to low-emission non-urban road transport by making it more affordable and through measures that increase consumer confidence in cleaner options -- Invest proactively in technological developments beyond the transport sector to ensure wide-scale availability of new technologies for a comprehensive decarbonisation roll out -- References -- Note…”

“…Third Generation (3G) wireless networks are in the works in Europe and Asia, and 2.5G networks that incorporate some 3G features are being rolled out in the United StatesHands-on guide to integrating cell phone or PDA/portable PC products with present and future wireless network hardwareAddresses topics such as quality of service (QoS) and service level agreements (SLAs) from a wireless perspectivePresents an in-depth review of both handset and network hardware and software…”

“…Look to Brazil for safe, stable investments As the future of the American economy seems to get bleaker by the day, it is tempting to look abroad for business opportunities. Europe and Asia don't provide much hope, but what about somewhere that's both closer to home and sunny year-round? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Contributions à la croissance du PIB -- Facteurs de la reprise économique -- Tableau 1. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Coûts et prix -- Les perspectives jusqu'en 2002 -- Tableau 5. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Clasificación de empresas spin-offs -- 1.9. Una mirada a la clasificación de empresas colombianas -- 1.10. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Total des recettes fiscales (en % du PIB) -- 2.2. Structure de la fiscalité -- Tableau 3. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Problem resolution -- 10.1 RAS -- 10.2 PD/PSI -- 10.3 Information to collect -- 10.4 db2support utility -- 10.5 Understanding DB2DIAG.LOG -- 10.6 DB2DIAG tool -- 10.7 Prevention versus resolution -- Related publications -- IBM Redbooks -- Other publications -- Online resources -- How to get IBM Redbooks -- Help from IBM -- Index -- Back cover…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Althing, vieja piedra del -- Alvarado, Pedro de -- Álvarez, José Sixto (Fray Mocho) -- Alvear, Carlos María de -- Alvear Cambaceres, Elvira de -- Amaro, Juan Francisco, doctor -- Amazonas -- Ambrosio -- Amiano -- Amorim, Enrique -- Amritsar -- Anales de Buenos Aires, Los -- Anales de la Biblioteca -- Anaxágoras -- Anchorena, calle -- Andalucía -- Anderson, Sherwood -- Andrade, Olegario Víctor -- Andreä, Johannes Valentinus -- Andrómaca -- Ángeles de Mons -- Angélica y Medoro -- Angoulême, Marguerite d' -- Aníbal -- Anónimo florentino -- Anschluss -- Anselmo -- Antología de la literatura fantástica -- apócrifo -- Apollinaire, Guillaume -- Apolonio de Rodas -- Apuleyo, Lucio -- Aqueronte -- "A quien leyere" -- Aquiles -- araucano o pampa -- Arcipreste de Hita -- Arequipa -- Argentina -- Argos -- argot -- Ariosto, Ludovico Giovanni -- Aristóteles -- Arlt, Roberto -- Arminio -- Arnold, Matthew -- Aron, Robert -- Arquitas -- arrabal -- Arredondo, Avelino -- Arroyo del Medio -- Artajerjes el Falso -- Artemidoro, tratado de -- Artigas, José Gervasio -- Artsibáshev, Mijaíl Petrovich -- Asamblea de los pájaros o Coloquio de los pájaros -- Asbury, Herbert -- Ascasubi, Hilario -- asesino Karamasoff, El (filme) [Der Mörder Dimitri Karamasoff] -- Ashe, Herbert -- Asín Palacios, Miguel -- askenazí (o ashkenazi) -- Asterión -- Astíoque -- astrología judiciaria -- Asurbanipal, biblioteca de -- Atahualpa -- Atanasio (Satanasio) -- Atis -- Attar, Farid al-Din abu Talib Muhammad ben Ibrahim -- Auden, W. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- The Role of a Brand Strategist -- What You Need To Offer -- Make Yourself Distinct or Go Extinct -- Chapter Five: 5Cs of Personal Branding -- The 5Cs of Personal Branding -- Addressing Challenges -- Chapter Six: The 8-seconds Pitch -- The Perfect Tools for Pitching -- Make Personalised Pitches -- Top Tips for Presenters -- Chapter Seven: Case: Constructing a Story -- Telling a Unique Story -- Focusing on One Industry -- Generating Content, Opening More Opportunities -- Part Two: Personalise -- Chapter One: Introduction -- Chapter Two: Teach Bots to Be Compassionate -- How They Help Bridge the Digital Divide -- The Process of Teaching Bots -- Understanding a Customer's History -- Hyper-Personalisation -- Customer Relationship in the Digital Context -- Chapter Three: Finding the Appropriate Asia Pacific-based Journalist -- Telum's Best Features…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Motivation xviii About the Authors xxv 1 Globalization: Economies in Collision 1 Motivation 1 1.1 Introduction 1 1.2 Trend and Challenges in Global Finance 5 1.2.1 Global Finance and the 2007-2008 Financial Crisis 5 1.2.2 Geopolitics and Finance or Geo-Finance 7 1.2.3 Population Growth 9 1.2.4 Geo-Finance and Gating 9 1.2.5 Culture and Social Norms 10 1.2.6 Emerging Economies, Equalization, and Risks 11 1.2.7 Regulation and Politics 12 1.3 Global Finance and Trade in the Media and News 12 1.3.1 Taxing Foreign Returns When They Are Repatriated 12 1.3.2 Sovereign Gating and Protective Tariffs, Trade Defense 12 1.3.3 Global Insurance and Dependence 13 1.3.4 Finance and Politics 13 1.3.5 EU-US Regulation Risks in a Trans-Atlantic Market 13 1.3.6 Rare Earth and Strategic Trades 14 1.4 Global Risks 15 1.4.1 Factors Affecting Global Risks 15 1.4.2 Global Finance and Risk Theories 17 1.5 Global Finance and Swaps and Financial Products 18 1.6 Currencies and Liquidity 20 1.7 Foreign Exchange Regime and Markets, Global Payment, and Reserve Currency 23 1.7.1 Foreign Exchange Markets and Global Trade Currency 24 1.7.2 Exchange Rate Regimes 28 1.7.3 Foreign Exchange Reserve Currencies 29 1.7.4 Exchange Rate in Emerging Markets 30 1.8 Trade Incentives and Repressions 33 1.9 Historical Evolution 36 1.9.1 The Gold Standard System 36 1.9.2 The Bretton Woods Agreement 37 1.9.3 The Yuan Exchange Rate: An Example 38 1.10 Archaic and Modern Globalization: A Time Path 40 1.11 Discussions on Global Issues 44 References 46 2 Data, Measurements, and Global Finance 51 Motivation 51 2.1 Data and Models 51 2.1.1 National Accounts and Country-Specific Data 52 2.1.2 Financial Data 53 2.1.3 Corporate and Statistical Measurements 53 2.1.4 Big Data and Model-Less Finance 56 2.1.5 Technology and Financial Data 59 2.1.6 Transforming Data Management in Global Finance 60 2.2 Global Finance, Data Reduction, and Statistical Measurements 61 2.2.1 Moments 61 2.2.2 Skew and Kurtosis (Tails) 63 2.2.3 Outliers, Extreme Statistics, and Fat Tails 65 2.2.4 Extreme Risks 65 2.2.5 Time Series and Filtration 66 2.2.6 Dependence 67 2.2.7 Risk Exposure 75 2.3 Volatility and Implied Models Estimates 76 2.3.1 Simple Volatility Estimates 76 2.3.2 Implied Volatility 77 2.3.3 Moving Average and Autoregressive Moving Average Models 79 2.3.4 ARCH-GARCH Volatility Models 80 2.3.5 ARCH-GARCH Model: Empirical Evidence 82 2.4 Stochastic Models 86 2.4.1 The Constant Rate of Return Hypothesis 88 2.4.2 Autoregressive and Mean Reverting Models 90 2.5 Multivariate Probability Models 91 2.5.1 Bernoulli and Codependence: Qualitative Data 92 2.5.2 Multivariate Qualitative Data 93 2.5.3 Copulas and Multivariate Models 96 2.6 Statistical Data Reduction 100 2.7 Complexity: The Global Risk Finance Scourge 102 2.8 Discussion 103 References 104 3 Global Finance: Utility, Financial Consumption, and Asset Pricing 110 Motivation 110 3.1 Introduction: Financial Models and Pricing 110 3.1.1 The Walras-Arrow-Debreu Preference-Free Q Framework 111 3.1.2 Utility Finance 113 3.1.3 Utility Preferences and Pricing 114 3.2 Review: Elements of Utility and Risk 116 3.2.1 Utility and Risk Preferences 117 3.2.2 Selected Utility Functions 119 3.3 The Utility of Consumption and its Price 119 3.3.1 Example: The Financial Utility of Consumption 120 3.3.2 The Utility of Financial Consumption 121 3.4 The Capital Assets Pricing Model 123 3.4.1 Discussion 125 3.4.2 The Jensen Alpha Case: η = α−Rf 0 125 3.4.3 The Arbitrage Pricing Theory 126 3.4.4 The Capital Assets Pricing Model and Foreign Exchange 127 3.4.5 Pricing Foreign Exchange Rates and a Basket of Foreign Exchange Rates 128 3.4.6 Thought Experiment 130 3.4.7 Linear Regressions, Capital Assets Pricing Model, and Global Finance 130 3.5 Review of Elements of Arrow-Debreu and Q Pricing 131 3.5.1 Applications of the Arrow-Debreu Framework 134 3.5.2 Pricing a Foreign Bond and Foreign Exchange Rates 134 3.5.3 Global Investment Pricing: A Binomial Model 137 3.5.4 Global Investment Pricing: A Portfolio Problem 139 3.5.5 Foreign Exchange, Consumer Price Index, and Purchasing Power Parity 141 3.5.6 Relative Purchasing Power Parity 141 3.6 The Multiperiod Consumption-Based Capital Asset Pricing Model 142 3.6.1 Example: Pricing Exports 144 3.6.2 Example: The Multiagent Consumption-Based Capital Asset Pricing Model 145 3.6.3 Example: Portfolio Investment 146 3.6.4 The Capital Assets Pricing Model as a Special Case of the Consumption-Based Capital Asset Pricing Model 149 3.6.5 Foreign Exchange Rates, Bonds, and Equity 150 3.6.6 Example: Rate of Returns in Foreign Equity Markets and the Foreign Exchange Rate 153 3.7 Thought Experiments 154 References 155 4 Macroeconomics, Foreign Exchange, and Global Finance 157 Motivation 157 4.1 Introduction 157 4.2 Fundamental Macroeconomic Models 158 4.2.1 The Keynes Model: Goods and Money Markets in a Closed Economy 159 4.2.2 Macroeconomic Accounting in Open Economies 162 4.3 Balance of Payments Accounts 165 4.3.1 The Structure of Balance of Payments 165 4.3.2 Principles of Balance of Payments 167 4.3.3 Global External Imbalances 168 4.4 The Mundell and Fleming Model: IS-LM-BOP Model 171 4.4.1 Equilibrium Exchange Rate in the Foreign Exchange Market 171 4.4.2 IS-LM-BOP Model 173 4.4.3 Two-Country Model with Mundell-Fleming 175 4.4.4 Extension of the Mundell-Fleming Model: Trade 176 4.5 Macroeconomic Factors Reshaping Global Outlook 178 4.5.1 Foreign Direct Investment 178 4.5.2 External Debt and its Sustainability 182 4.5.3 Government Bonds and other Macroeconomic Factors 184 4.5.4 The Impact of a Strong US Dollar 185 4.5.5 The US Dollar and Commodity Prices 186 4.5.6 Globalization and Economic Inequalities 187 4.6 Conclusion 190 References 191 5 Foreign Exchange Models and Prices 195 Motivation 195 5.1 Introduction 195 5.2 Macroeconomic Models of Foreign Exchange Rates 196 5.2.1 Underlying Factors for Modeling Foreign Exchange Prices 196 5.2.2 Classification of Foreign Exchange Models 197 5.3 Exchange Rates and Purchasing Power Parity 198 5.3.1 Purchasing Power Parity and the Law of One Price 198 5.3.2 Application of the Law of One Price and Purchasing Power Parity 200 5.4 Foreign Exchange Rates and Interest Rates: The Assets Approach 204 5.4.1 Covered Interest Arbitrage 204 5.4.2 Uncovered Interest Parities 205 5.4.3 Real Interest Parity 206 5.4.4 Testing Uncovered Interest Parity 206 5.5 Demand and Supply of Money and Exchange Rates: Monetary Approach 207 5.5.1 The Frenkel-Mussa Model 208 5.5.2 Foreign Exchange Prices and Inflation 209 5.5.3 The Unified Asset/Monetary Approaches 211 5.5.4 Empirical Evidence on the Monetary Model of Exchange Rate 211 5.6 Extensions of the Models 212 5.6.1 The Balassa-Samuelson Model 212 5.6.2 The Dornbusch Overshooting Model 215 5.6.3 The Real Interest Differential Theory 219 5.6.4 Present-Value Models: Complete and Incomplete Markets 219 5.7 Conclusions 221 Appendix 5.A: Suggested Empirical Work for Econometric and Statistical Analysis 222 References 223 6 Asia: Financial Environment and Risks 226 Motivation 226 6.1 Introduction 226 6.2 Driving Engines of Economic Growth in Asia 228 6.2.1 International Trade 229 6.2.2 Exchange Rate 229 6.2.3 Foreign Investments Expansion 234 6.3 Financial Sector Development in Asia 235 6.3.1 Fast-Growing Banking Sector 237 6.3.2 Bond Market Development 239 6.3.3 Stock Market Development 242 6.4 Risks of Investing in Asia 245 6.4.1 Foreign Exchange Risk 245 6.4.2 Foreign Exchange Option 248 6.4.3 Portfolio with Asian Assets 249 6.5 Financial Development in China 251 6.5.1 Importance of the Banking Sector in China 252 6.5.2 State-Owned Enterprises 254 6.5.3 Challenges in Equity Markets in China 257 6.5.4 Stock Market Development in China 257 6.6 Finance in Japan 260 6.6.1 Banking Sector in Japan 260 6.6.2 Effectiveness of Corporate Governance 260 6.6.3 The Importance of Industry 261 6.6.4 Bond Market Volatility in Japan 263 6.7 Conclusion 265 References 266 7 Financial Currency Pricing, Swaps, Derivatives, and Complete Markets 269 Motivation 269 7.1 Introduction 269 7.2 Pricing Consumption Price Index and Foreign Exchange in Complete Financial Markets 272 7.3 A Generalized Consumption Price Index Foreign Exchange Pricing Model 276 7.4 Relative and Foreign Exchange Basket Price Tracking 278 7.4.1 Currency Basket Design 281 7.4.2 A Global Index Consumption Price Index Price Reversion and Foreign Exchange Prices 284 7.4.3 Global Index Reversion…”

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Tabla de Contenidos: “…La fábrica; 4. INDUSTRIALIZACIÓN SIN MECANIZACIÓN: SECTORES «TRADICIONALES»; 4.1. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…La exploración del Atlántico; 4. La ruta al Asia por occidente; II LAS INDIAS OCCIDENTALES; 1. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…La Asociación de las Naciones del Asia Sudoriental (ASEAN); PARTE SEGUNDA LA REGIONALIZACIÓN DE LAS OPERACIONES DE MANTENIMIENTO DE LA PAZ Y SU MARCO JURÍDICO; TERCER CAPÍTULO LA REGIONALIZACIÓN DE LAS OPERACIONES DE MANTENIMIENTO DE LA PAZ; I. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…La Federación Iberoamericana de Ombudsman; 1.3.4. El Foro Asia-Pacífi co de Instituciones Nacionales de Derechos Humanos; 1.3.5. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…MOVIMIENTOS Y DIÁSPORAS EN LOS PAÍSES DE LA ANTIGUA UNIÓN SOVIÉTICA; 4.1. CREAR UN MARCO DE ANÁLISIS PARA LO «NO LUGARES». …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Los casos de SIDA en los últimos quince años han crecido de manera alarmanteLas tres vías de transmisión de la enfermedad; El aumento del número de mujeres infectadas repercute en el incremento de la transmisión perinatal; Existen varios factores que influyen en la epidemia de SIDA; LA EPIDEMIA EN EL MUNDO; Estados Unidos presenta la mayor tasa de SIDA en los países desarrollados; África es el continente más afectado; La evolución de la epidemia en Latinoamérica es muy heterogénea; En Asia, la epidemia está en sus comienzos; El SIDA en Europa refleja las diferencias norte-sur…”