New reference book with historical economic/financial statistics

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International Historical Statistics; Africa, Asia and Oceania 1750-2005 is the latest edition of the most authoritative collection of statistics available.

It is available in our Reference collection at HG2 MITC (this means that you won't be able to take the book out, however, you can make photocopies)

Updated to 2005 wherever possible, it provides key economic and social indicators for the last 255 years, serving as an essential reference source.

Contents provides:

• statistical data in easy to use tables
• for the last 255 years (where available)
• of every country in the African, Asian and Australiasian continents

Covering:

• Population & Vital Statistics

Includes population of countries at enumerations, by sex and age groups, of major cities, vital statistics, international migrants

• Labour Force

Includes economically active population, unemployment, industrial disputes, indices of wages/earnings

• Agriculture

Main arable food crops; various foodstuff outputs; livestock, exports of various agricultural commodities

• Industry

Includes coal , crude petroleum, natural gas and iron ore production; assembly of motor vehicles, imports & exports

• External Trade

Includes aggregate current values, main trading partners and major commodity exports

• Transport & Communication

Includes length of railway open lines, freight/passenger traffic on railways, merchant ships registered, motor vehicles in use, civil aviation traffic, postal/telegraph traffic, radio/tv sets in use

• Finance

Includes currency/banknotes in circulation, demand deposits in commercial banks, savings, money supply, total central government expenditure,central government revenue (tax yields)

• Prices

Includes wholesale and consumer price indices

• Education

Includes number of children schools and higher education

• National Accounts

Includes national accounts totals , proportions of GDP by sector of origin, balance of payments

ScienceDirect's Hottest Articles April-June 2008

Every 3 months ScienceDirect distributes a list of the Top 25 Hottest articles published with in a specific subject area.

Here is the newest list available for Economics, Econometrics & Finance for the time period: April - June 2008. (For some reason Accounting articles are grouped with Business & Management - for the list of hottest articles that include Accounting please click here.)


Australian gold exploration 1976-2003 • Article Resources Policy, Volume 30, Issue 1, 1 March 2005, Pages 29-37Huleatt, M.B.; Jaques, A.L.
Cited by Scopus (3)

Exploration and discovery of Australia's copper, nickel, lead and zinc resources 1976-2005 • Article Resources Policy, Volume 30, Issue 3, 1 September 2005, Pages 168-185Jaques, A.L.; Huleatt, M.B.; Ratajkoski, M.; Towner, R.R.
Cited by Scopus (1)

Market efficiency, long-term returns, and behavioral finance • Article Journal of Financial Economics, Volume 49, Issue 3, 1 September 1998, Pages 283-306Fama, E.F.
Cited by Scopus (395)

Investor protection and corporate governance • Article Journal of Financial Economics, Volume 58, Issue 1-2, 1 January 2000, Pages 3-27La Porta, R.; Lopez-de-Silanes, F.; Shleifer, A.; Vishny, R.
Cited by Scopus (321)

How does foreign direct investment affect economic growth? • Article Journal of International Economics, Volume 45, Issue 1, 1 June 1998, Pages 115-135Borensztein, E.; De Gregorio, J.; Lee, J.-W.
Cited by Scopus (261)

Is Globalization Reducing Poverty and Inequality? • Article World Development, Volume 32, Issue 4, 1 April 2004, Pages 567-589Wade, R.H.
Cited by Scopus (53)

Information asymmetry, corporate disclosure, and the capital markets: A review of the empirical disclosure literature • Article Journal of Accounting and Economics, Volume 31, Issue 1-3, 1 September 2001, Pages 405-440Healy, P.M.; Palepu, K.G.
Cited by Scopus (181)

The theory and practice of corporate finance: evidence from the field • Article Journal of Financial Economics, Volume 60, Issue 2-3, 1 May 2001, Pages 187-243Graham, J.R.; Harvey, C.R.
Cited by Scopus (215)

The price of innovation: new estimates of drug development costs • Article Journal of Health Economics, Volume 22, Issue 2, 1 March 2003, Pages 151-185DiMasi, J.A.; Hansen, R.W.; Grabowski, H.G.
Cited by Scopus (546)

The curse of natural resources • Article European Economic Review, Volume 45, Issue 4-6, 1 May 2001, Pages 827-838Sachs, J.D.; Warner, A.M.
Cited by Scopus (120)


Performance management: a framework for management control systems research • ArticleManagement Accounting Research, Volume 10, Issue 4, 1 December 1999, Pages 363-382Otley, D.
Cited by Scopus (85)

Designing payments for environmental services in theory and practice: An overview of the issues • Article Ecological Economics, Volume 65, Issue 4, 1 May 2008, Pages 663-674Engel, S.; Pagiola, S.; Wunder, S.
Cited by Scopus (1)

Understanding cultures and implicit leadership theories across the globe: an introduction to project GLOBE • Article Journal of World Business, Volume 37, Issue 1, 1 March 2002, Pages 3-10House, R.; Javidan, M.; Hanges, P.; Dorfman, P.
Cited by Scopus (54)


Capital markets research in accounting • Article Journal of Accounting and Economics, Volume 31, Issue 1-3, 1 September 2001, Pages 105-231Kothari, S.P.
Cited by Scopus (139)

Low-frequency collection of materials disassembled from end-of-life vehicles • Article International Journal of Production Economics, Volume 111, Issue 2, 1 February 2008, Pages 209-228Krikke, H.; le Blanc, I.; van Krieken, M.; Fleuren, H.


Design for control: A new perspective on process and product innovation • Article International Journal of Production Economics, Volume 113, Issue 1, 1 May 2008, Pages 346-358Bordoloi, S.; Guerrero, H.H.

Economic consequences of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 • Article Journal of Accounting and Economics, Volume 44, Issue 1-2, 1 September 2007, Pages 74-115Zhang, I.X.
Cited by Scopus (7)

Oil prices, inflation and interest rates in a structural cointegrated VAR model for the G-7 countries • Article Energy Economics, Volume 30, Issue 3, 1 May 2008, Pages 856-888Cologni, A.; Manera, M.
Cited by Scopus (2)

The balance on the balanced scorecard a critical analysis of some of its assumptions • Article Management Accounting Research, Volume 11, Issue 1, 1 March 2000, Pages 65-88Norreklit, H.
Cited by Scopus (93)

Corporate governance and firm cash holdings in the US • Article Journal of Financial Economics, Volume 87, Issue 3, 1 March 2008, Pages 535-555Harford, J.; Mansi, S.A.; Maxwell, W.F.
Cited by Scopus (1)

Corporate governance and pay-for-performance: The impact of earnings management • Article Journal of Financial EconomicsCornett, M.M.; Marcus, A.J.; Tehranian, H.


Technological innovation systems and the multi-level perspective: Towards an integrated framework • Article Research Policy, Volume 37, Issue 4, 1 May 2008, Pages 596-615Markard, J.; Truffer, B.
Cited by Scopus (1)

Financial distress and corporate risk management: Theory and evidence • Article Journal of Financial Economics, Volume 87, Issue 3, 1 March 2008, Pages 706-739Purnanandam, A.


Do firms manage earnings to meet dividend thresholds? • Article Journal of Accounting and Economics, Volume 45, Issue 1, 1 March 2008, Pages 2-26Daniel, N.D.; Denis, D.J.; Naveen, L.

Consumer acceptance, valuation of and attitudes towards genetically modified food: Review and implications for food policy • Article Food Policy, Volume 33, Issue 2, 1 April 2008, Pages 99-111Costa-Font, M.; Gil, J.M.; Traill, W.B.

Fannie and Freddie Fixed ...

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Fannie And Freddie's 15-Month Fix
Maurna Desmond

It's been described as one of the largest government bailouts in U.S. history, but Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson's four-pronged rescue of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac is merely a temporary solution, leaving a cloudy view on what the two mortgage giants will look like in the future.

The government seized the mortgage finance companies over the weekend in the form of a conservatorship, promising to buy the companies' preferred stock, buy mortgage-backed securities from their portfolios and provide a lending facility. What Paulson did not say: whether these companies will be permanently nationalized.

Instead, the plan calls for the run-off of their portfolios of mortgage-backed securities starting in 2010, which is a little more than 15 months away. That is about as much time the next Congress would need to come up with a permanent fix. More

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‘MTV generation learns through fun’
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Grand masters of vinyl
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Book of the week
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A Community College Divided
At Thomas Nelson, a president who outraged faculty elsewhere runs into trouble again — and leaves an institution split over priorities, race and right to dissent. more


In New Orleans, Move-In Day (Again)
As students return to Loyola U. campus after pre-hurricane evacuation, the campus is neat and the mood upbeat, but storm clouds loom (literally). more


Print Journalism Squeeze Hits Campuses
As newspapers across the country face declining revenues, student publications are feeling the brunt, too. more

Different Measures of Community College Outcomes
Six states test new set of performance measures in response to the limitations of the federal graduation rate formula.

EUROPE: Impact of sharp population decline Keith Nuthall
European academics are preparing to gather at a high-level conference to discuss the problems caused to higher education by a sharp decline in the European population. The debates at the European University Association conference come as the latest figures from the European Union statistical agency Eurostat confirm the number of young people in European countries is already shrinking and will get smaller

GLOBAL: Higher education expanding rapidly Diane Spencer
The higher education sector has expanded rapidly worldwide over the past decade, says the latest annual report from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Education at a Glance 2008 shows that 37% of school-leavers went to university in 1995 whereas 57% on average now do in the 30 member countries of the OECD. In Australia, Finland, Iceland, Poland and Sweden, three out of four school-leavers go on to a degree course. The 500-page report also shows that public expenditure on higher education has increased but that private investment has risen even more.

GLOBAL: North America far ahead in new rankings Rebecca Warden
North American universities are the clear winners in the latest edition of of The Web Ranking of World Universities, published by the Spanish National Research Council or CSIC's Cybermetrics Lab. The council has US and Canadian universities between them accounting for 123 of the world's top 200 universities. Europe comes in a very poor second with 61 universities while the Asia-Pacific region manages a total of 14. The league table, produced twice yearly since 2004, ranks institutions according to the size and quality of their presence on the internet and its wider impact.


CANADA: Tuition-fee patchwork siphons students Philip Fine
Hundreds of bargain-hunting Canadian students have moved to Newfoundland and Labrador, a province with the lowest tuition fees in the country. The recent student migration is one of the strange things to emerge in a country where individual provincial governments fund university operations, while the federal government is relegated to observing the wild patchwork of varying fees.


UK: Students underestimate debts Diane Spencer
As the British university term is about to begin, new students are being warned not to underestimate how much they are likely to be in debt by the end of their courses. A survey from the National Union of Students reveals that prospective university students are underestimating the basic costs of living such as groceries, household bills and travel by nearly £450 (US$822) a year.


GERMANY: Studying too expensive Mike Gardner

Yet another damning report has been released on social background and studying in Germany. This time the Deutsches Studentenwerk or DSW, the country's student welfare organisation, has drawn attention to the fact that more and more school-leavers in Germany are choosing not to study owing to difficult financial hurdles. Even among the group with top marks in the Abitur higher education admission certificate, parents' income is clearly a decisive factor in career planning.

GERMANY: OECD statistics cause for concern Michael Gardner
German first-year student numbers appear to be stagnating, according to OECD statistics. The country is also performing poorly in terms of graduation figures, says the organisation's Education at a Glance 2008 report released last week. President of the Hochschulrektorenkonferenz (HRK - the conference of higher education heads in Germany), Professor Margret Wintermantel, is worried that Germany is increasingly lagging behind other countries and has called for more funding for higher education.

SOUTH KOREA: KAIST conference attracts leading researchers Douglas Rogers*
The big-budget conference circuit with high-profile international speakers hits Korea in October. This year, the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), in Daejon, has got in early with a series of activities straddling the weekend, reflecting the dynamic leadership of the President, Dr Suh Nam-Pyo.



Universities Looking More Like Corporate Research Labs steven bell
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Green Buildings And Alternative Energy Will Be Sprouting On Campus steven bell Five years ago, green residence halls or organic dining would have seemed like cutting edge improvements of a campus’ environmental impact, but no longer. The U.S. Green Building Council says 250 campus buildings have received its stamp of approval, a LEED certification, and another 1600 are on the way. Wind and solar power generation is taking off; even high-tech projects like greywater reuse are finding a home on some campuses. As everything from printing labs to public transport gets a greener lift, here are nine projects that stand out.
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