This statistical reference allows you to consult over 800 indicators for 152 economies and 14 country groups in more than 80 tables. It provides a current overview of the most recent data available as well as important regional data and income group analysis in six thematic chapters: World View, People, Environment, Economy, States and Markets, and Global Links. The CD-ROM editions contain 43 years of time series data for more than 200 countries and 18 country groups, covering 1960 too 2003, and offers mapping, charting and data export formats.

This book shows how our lives are shaped not only by the choices we make, but by the choices we have. From dating, school and university applications to the job market, understand the most important decisions you'll ever make with insights from a Nobel Prize-winner. Who Gets What and Why is a piquantly written, mind-expanding exploration of the markets that matter most to many of us. If you've ever sought a job or hired someone, applied to university or guided your child into a good school, asked someone out on a date or been asked out, you have participated in a matching market. They are everywhere around us and account for some of the biggest technological successes of the decade, like Uber and Airbnb. Matching markets can even be the gatekeeper of life itself, guiding how desperately ill patients receive scarce organs for transplants. Alvin E. Roth shared the 2012 Nobel Prize in economics for his pioneering research into market design - the principles that govern all kinds of markets where money isn't the only factor in determining who gets what. His book reveals what factors make these markets work well - or badly - and shows us all how to recognise a good match and make smarter, more confident decisions.

El manual pretén oferir una sèrie de nocions elementals d'estadística, algebra i calcul que permetisquen entendre els diferents models que l'economia presenta per explicar certa realitat. S'ha procurat que les idees basiques de l'assignatura s'adaptaren a la preparació matematica, de vegades escassa, dels alumnes de la Diplomatura de Turisme. Una altra de les característiques del llibre es proposar una col·lecció d'exemples i exercicis encaminats a assolir els raonaments matematics front els rutinaris algorismes de calcul. A més, hem apostat decididament per la utilització dels sistemes de calcul formal que les noves tecnologies ens posen a l'abast. És per això que a la fi de cada tema es proposa un conjunt de practiques que es realitzaran en un laboratori de matematiques.

Alvin E. RothTwo-sided matching provides a model of search processes such as those between firms and workers in labor markets or between buyers and sellers in auctions. This book gives a comprehensive account of recent results concerning the game-theoretic analysis of two-sided matching. The focus of the book is on the stability of outcomes, on the incentives that different rules of organization give to agents, and on the constraints that these incentives impose on the ways such markets can be organized. The results for this wide range of related models and matching situations help clarify which conclusions depend on particular modeling assumptions and market conditions, and which are robust over a wide range of conditions.

L'ús de les tècniques economètriques com a mètode d'investigació en l'economia en particular, però també en les ciències socials en general, és avui en dia imprescindible. És per això que és necessar

Cómo aprovechar más las reuniones, liderar el logro de resultados en menor tiempo, evitar la sobrecarga de información y reducir los niveles de estrés son algunas de las cuestiones sobre las que el libro brinda valiosos consejos para los ejecutivos. A traves de numerosos ejemplos reales, los lectores aprenderan a ser mas eficientes en su trabajo y a lograr el equilibrio entre la vida profesional y privada.

El presente volumen contiene 8 trabajos sobre diversos aspectos de la toma de decisiones con criterios múltiples que fueron solicitados en su momento a especialistas en el tema. El primero de ellos titulado Los Metodos Promethee: Una metodologia de Ayuda a la Toma de Decisiones Multicriterio Discreta ha sido realizado por Gabriela Fernandez con el objetivo de presentar la metodologia PROMETHEE, de gran atractivo en el mundo de la decision multicriterio.

NOW WITH NEW PROLOGUE ABOUT DEMYSTIFYING CORONAVIRUS NUMBERS DONALD TRUMP AND WHY STATISTICS MATTER MORE THAN EVER The Number Bias combines vivid storytelling with authoritative analysis to deliver a warning about the way numbers can lead us astray if we let them TIM HARFORD Even if you don t consider yourself a numbers person you are a numbers person The time has come to put numbers in their place Not high up on a pedestal or out on the curb but right where they belong beside words It is not an overstatement to say that numbers dictate the way we live our lives They tell us how we re doing at school how much we weigh who might win an election and whether the economy is booming But numbers aren t as objective as they may seem behind every number is a story Yet politicians businesses and the media often forget this or use it for their own gain Sanne Blauw travels the world to unpick our relationship with numbers and demystify our misguided allegiance from Florence Nightingale using statistics to petition for better conditions during the Crimean War to the manipulation of numbers by the American tobacco industry and the ambiguous figures peddled during the EU referendum Taking us from the everyday numbers that govern our health and wellbeing

The past twenty years have seen an extraordinary growth in the use of quantitative methods in financial markets. Finance professionals now routinely use sophisticated statistical techniques in portfolio management, proprietary trading, risk management, financial consulting, and securities regulation. This graduate-level textbook is intended for PhD students, advanced MBA students, and industry professionals interested in the econometrics of financial modeling. The book covers the entire spectrum of empirical finance, including: the predictability of asset returns, tests of the Random Walk Hypothesis, the microstructure of securities markets, event analysis, the Capital Asset Pricing Model and the Arbitrage Pricing Theory, the term structure of interest rates, dynamic models of economic equilibrium, and nonlinear financial models such as ARCH, neural networks, statistical fractals, and chaos theory. Each chapter develops statistical techniques within the context of a particular financial application. This exciting new text contains a unique and accessible combination of theory and practice, bringing state-of-the-art statistical techniques to the forefront of financial applications. Each chapter also includes a discussion of recent empirical evidence, for example, the rejection of the Random Walk Hypothesis, as well as problems designed to help readers incorporate what they have read into their own applications.