AGRICULTURAL CREDIT
Teves, Gary B.
Improving credit access for the food and agriculture sector through enhanced implementation of existing policies and new strategies / Gary B. Teves. Quezon City : School of Economics, University of the Philippines, 2014. HC 455 P6 2014 no.15 (FI)
AGRICULTURAL CREDIT–PHILIPPINES
“For several decades, the government has sought to develop the agriculture sector through programs like agrarian reform, agricultural modernization and rural finance, but farmers and fisherfolk remain to be the poorest sector in the Philippines. This paper seeks to explore ways to improve small farmers and fisherfolks’ access to credit provided by formal financial institutions. The government needs to implement and improve on its existing programs, identified in this study, and combine these with policy reforms and new strategies to fast-track the development of the food and agriculture sector to make economic growth more inclusive.”
COMMODITY EXCHANGES
2013 Commodity flow in the Philippines. Manila : Philippine Statistics Authority, 2014. HF 1040.9 P6 C64 2013 (FI)
COMMODITY EXCHANGES–PHILIPPINES–STATISTICS / COMMODITY CONTROL / PRODUCE TRADE–PHILIPPINES–STATISTICS
“Provides a comprehensive statistics on regional commodity flow by mode of transport and contains detailed statistics on the quantity and value of coastwise, air and rail trade by commodity, port of origin and destination.”
CONSUMPTION (ECONOMICS)
Cherchye, Laurens
Collective household consumption behavior [electronic resource] : revealed preference analysis / Laurens Cherchye, Bram De Rock, & Frederic Vermeulen. Hanover, Mass. : Now Publishers, [2012]. HB 820 C38 2012
CONSUMPTION (ECONOMICS)–ECONOMETRIC MODELS / HOUSEHOLDS–ECONOMETRIC MODELS
Collective Household Consumption Behavior presents a nonparametric “revealed preference” methodology for analyzing collective consumption behavior in practical applications, while possibly accounting for externalities, public consumption, and the use of assignable quantity information. Collective Household Consumption Behavior considers two types of collective models: the general collective model considers general preferences of the individual household members, which allow for externalities and public consumption within the household; the special collective models that do not allow for consumption externalities. (Continue reading…)
CONSUMPTION (ECONOMICS)
Pajaron, Marjorie C.
Remittances, informal loans, and assets as a risk-coping mechanism : evidence from agricultural households in rural Philippines / Marjorie C. Pajaron. Quezon City: School of Economics, University of the Philippines, 2014. HC 445 P6 2014 no. 16 (FI)
CONSUMPTION (ECONOMICS)–PHILIPPINES–MATHEMATICAL MODELS / HOUSEHOLDS–ECONOMIC ASPECTS–PHILIPPINES
“Investigates whether agricultural households in rural Philippines ensure their consumptions and whether they use remittances, informal loans, or assets as ex post risk-coping mechanisms. Since these households have limited access to formal insurance and credit markets, any shock to their volatile income can have substantial impacts. Using panel data and rainfall shocks as the instrumental variable for income shocks, this paper finds evidence that households depends on their networks of family and friends to partially ensure their consumption.”
CORRUPTION–ECONOMIC ASPECTS
Ontoy, Christopher S.
Corruption perceptions in the Asian public sector : an econometric analysis on the factors that relate to its prevalence / Christopher S. Ontoy ; Maria Cielo D. Magno, thesis adviser. Quezon City : School of Economics, University of the Philippines Diliman, 2015. LG 995 2015 E2 058 (Master’s thesis) (FI)
CORRUPTION–ECONOMIC ASPECTS–ASIA
DECISION MAKING–MATHEMATICAL MODELS
Gilboa, Itzhak
Case-based predictions : an axiomatic approach to prediction, classification and statistical learning / Itzhak Gilboa and David Schmeidler. Singapore : World Scientific Publishing, [2012]. HD 30.25 G65 2012
DECISION MAKING–MATHEMATICAL MODELS / PREDICTION THEORY–MATHEMATICAL MODELS
The book presents an axiomatic approach to the problems of prediction, classification, and statistical learning. Using methodologies from axiomatic decision theory, and, in particular, the authors’ case-based decision theory, the present studies attempt to ask what inductive conclusions can be derived from existing databases. It is shown that simple consistency rules lead to similarity-weighted aggregation, akin to kernel-based methods. It is suggested that the similarity function be estimated from the data. The incorporation of rule-based reasoning is discussed.
ECONOMIC CONDITIONS
2011 Philippine yearbook. Manila : National Statistics Office, 2014. HA 1821 A3 2011 (FI)
PHILIPPINES–STATISTICS / –POPULATION / –ECONOMIC CONDITIONS–STATISTICS / –SOCIAL CONDITIONS–STATISTICS / –POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT–STATISTICS
“Presents situationers on the country’s social, political and economic development. Chronicles the country’s history, while describing its geographic and political set-up. Previous Philippine demography, the delivery of basic social services in the country, and the relationship between the Philippine population and quality of life in the Philippines. More than half the book are chapters that dwell on economic performance by sector. The final chapter compares the Philippines’s standing with the economic, social and agricultural statistics of the country.”
ECONOMIC INDICATORS
The Philippine countryside in figures. 2012 edition. Makati City : PSA, 2014. HA 4615 P45 2012 (FI)
ECONOMIC INDICATORS–PHILIPPINES / SOCIAL INDICATORS–PHILIPPINES / PHILIPPINES–STATISTICS
“Contains general information and statistical indicators for the country’s 80 provinces and top 10 key cities outside the National Capital Region. This edition contains 62 tables and 15 chapters on the following topics: 1) general information on provinces, 2) governance, 3) income and expenditures, 4) labor and employment, 5) prices, 6)finance, 7) agriculture 8) health 9) education 10)communication, 11) tourism, 12) infrastructure, 13) transportation, 14) energy and 15) public order, safety and justice.”
EMPLOYMENT IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES
Survey on overseas Filipinos, 2013 : a report on the overseas Filipino workers. Manila : Philippine Statistics Authority, 2013. HD 5856 P6 S87 2013 (FI)
FILIPINOS–EMPLOYMENT–FOREIGN COUNTRIES / FOREIGN WORKERS. FILIPINO. / LABOR SUPPLY — PHILIPPINES / EMIGRANT REMITTANCES–PHILIPPINES
“Presents the results of the survey regarding the demographic and socio-economic characteristics of the overseas Filipinos. Also included, are the total remittances in cash or in kind sent the overseas Filipino workers to their families in the Philippines, from April to September 2013.”
ENERGY POLICY
Brown, Marilyn A.
Climate change and global energy security : technology and policy options / Marilyn A. Brown and Benjamin K. Sovacool. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2011]. HD 9502 B76 2011
ENERGY POLICY / ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY / RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCES / POWER RESOURCES / GREENHOUSE GAS MITIGATION–INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION
In this book, Marilyn Brown and Benjamin Sovacool offer detailed assessments of the most advanced commercially available technologies for strengthening global energy security, mitigating the effects of climate change, and enhancing resilience through adaptation and geo-engineering. They also evaluate the barriers to the deployment of these technologies and critically review public policy options crucial to their adoption. (Continue readings..)
FINANCIAL CRISES
Cassis, Youssef
Crises and opportunities : the shaping of modern finance / Youssef Cassis. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2011. HB 3722 C375 2011
FINANCIAL CRISES–HISTORY / FINANCIAL SERVICES INDUSTRY–HISTORY / BUSINESS CYCLES–HISTORY
Examining eight global financial crises since the late nineteenth century, this new historical study offers insights into how the financial landscape – banks, governance, regulation, international cooperation, and balance of power – has been (or failed to be) reshaped after a systemic shock. It includes careful consideration of the Great Depression of the 1930s, the only experience of comparable moment to the recession of the early twenty-first century, yet also marked in its differences.
Taking into account not only the economic and business aspects of financial crises, but also their political and socio-cultural dimensions, the book highlights both their idiosyncrasies and common features, and assesses their impact in the broader context of long-term historical development.
FISHERIES
Briones, Roehlano M.
Choke points and opportunities in the supply chain of ASEAN agricultural products : a Philippine country study / Roehlano M. Briones and Danilo C. Israel. Makati City: Philippine Institute for development studies, 2014. HC 460 D43 P537 2014 no.2 (FI)
FISHERIES–CLIMATIC FACTORS–PHILIPPINES / FISHERY POLICY– PHILIPPINES / COCONUT OIL–PHILIPPINES
“Identifies and examines “choke points” in the supply chain of two selected commodity groups that are of interest to the region of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations: crude coconut oil (which belongs to the HS15 group), and fish and crustacean, mollusks, and other aquatic invertebrates (which belong to the HS03 group)…”
FOREIGN EXCHANGE RATES
Natividad-Carlos, Fidelina B.
Exchange-rate overshooting : an analysis for intermediate macro / Fidelina B. Natividad-Carlos. Quezon City : School of Economics, University of the Philippines, 2014. HC 455 P6 2014 no.14 (FI)
FOREIGN EXCHANGE RATES–ECONOMETRIC MODELS
“This paper attempts to provide a graphical device – a panel IS*-LM* diagram – which can be used to teach intermediate macroeconomic students about Dornbusch’s idea of exchange rate dynamics. In addition, it also attempts to bridge the gap between undergraduate teaching and graduate teaching of exchange rate dynamics by showing the correspondence between the economy’s adjustment path in the IS*-LM* diagram and that in the phase diagram.”
HOUSEHOLDS–STATISTICS
Integrated survey of households bulletin : labor force, series no.161. Manila : Philippine Statistics Authority, 2015. HA 1824 A4 no. 161 (FI)
HOUSEHOLDS–PHILIPPINES–STATISTICS / LABOR SUPPLY–PHILIPPINES–STATISTICS / UNEMPLOYMENT–PHILIPPINES–STATISTICS
“Focuses on the levels and trends of employment, unemployment and underemployment of the country with data breakdown for each of the regions. Results from previous surveys are integrated, whenever possible for comparative purposes.”
INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC RELATIONS
Cohen, Benjamin J.
Advanced introduction to international political economy / Benjamin J. Cohen. Cheltenham [England] : Edward Elgar, [2014]. HF 1359 C63 2014
INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC RELATIONS / ECONOMICS
In this unique and original advanced introduction, Professor Benjamin Cohen pinpoints the essential principles of international political economy and illuminates the full array of perspectives to be found across the globe in this rich field of study.
LINEAR MODELS (STATISTICS)
Cochrane, John H.
Continuous-time linear models / John H. Cochrane. Hanover, Mass. : Now Publishers, [2012]. QA 279 C635 2012
LINEAR MODELS (STATISTICS)
Discrete-time linear ARMA processes and lag operator notation are convenient for lots of calculations. Continuous-time representations often simplify economic models, and can handle interesting nonlinearities as well. But standard treatments of continuous-time processes typically don’t mention how to adapt the discrete-time linear model concepts and lag operator methods to continuous time.
Continuous-Time Linear Models attempts that translation and exposits the techniques to make the translation from familiar discrete-time ideas. The concluding section of this monograph collects the important formulas in one place. The author assumes a basic knowledge of discrete-time time-series representation methods and continuous-time representations.
LOCAL GOVERNMENT
The challenge of local government size : theoretical perspectives, international experience and policy reform / edited by Santiago Lago-Peñas & Jorge Martinez-Vasquez. Cheltenham, [England] : Edward Elgar Publishing, [2013]. JS 78 C43 2013
LOCAL GOVERNMENT
Expert contributors in economics and political science offer a comprehensive breakdown of the issue of local jurisdiction fragmentation and provide recommendations for successful policy reform. Topics discussed include economies of scale, the costs and benefits of voluntary and forced amalgamation programs, the correlation between government size and corruption, privatization, and inter-municipal cooperation. A combination of theory and empirical evidence provides depth and makes this book an invaluable addition to the literature.
LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS
Osborne, Jason W.
Best practices in logistic regression / Jason W. Osborne. Los Angeles : SAGE, [2015]. QA 278.2 O83 2015
LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS
Jason W. Osborne’s Best Practices in Logistic Regression provides students with an accessible, applied approach that communicates logistic regression in clear and concise terms. The book effectively leverages readers’ basic intuitive understanding of simple and multiple regression to guide them into a sophisticated mastery of logistic regression. Osborne’s applied approach offers students and instructors a clear perspective, elucidated through practical and engaging tools that encourage student comprehension.
MATHEMATICA (COMPUTER PROGRAM LANGUAGE)
Hollis, Selwyn L.
CalcLabs mathematica : single variable calculus / Selwyn L. Hollis. Belmont, CA. : Brooks/Cole, Cengage Learning, 2012. QA 76.73 M29 H68 2012
CALCULUS–DATA PROCESSING / MATHEMATICA (COMPUTER PROGRAM LANGUAGE)
This comprehensive lab manual helps students learn to effectively use the technology tools that are available to them. Each lab contains clearly explained exercises and a variety of lab projects to accompany the text.
MEDICAL CARE
Garcia, Kairon Shayne D.
Bi-level analysis of the effects of income on health care expenditure in the Philippines / Kairon Shayne D. Garcia ; Maria Cielo D. Magno, thesis adviser. Quezon City: School of Economics, University of the Philippines Diliman, 2015. LG 995 2015 E2 G37 (FI)
MEDICAL CARE, COST OF–PHILIPPINES / MEDICAL ECONOMICS–PHILIPPINES.
MONEY
Smithin, John N.
Essays in the fundamental theory of monetary economics and macroeconomics / John N. Smithin. Singapore: World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., c2013. HG 221 S646 2013
MONEY / MONETARY POLICY / ECONOMIC POLICY / MACROECONOMICS
This book provides a comprehensive overview, in the form of eight long essays, of the evolution of monetary theory over the three-quarters of century, from the time of Keynes to the present day. The essays are originally based on lecture notes from a graduate course on Advanced Monetary Economics offered at York University, Toronto, written in the style of academic papers. The essays are mathematical in method — but also take a historical perspective, tracing the evolution of monetary thought through the Keynesian model, the monetarist model, new classical model, etc, up to and including the neo-Wickesellian models of the early 21st century.
MONEY SUPPPLY
Annual report vol. 1 2013 / Manila : Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas, [2014]. HG 3316 A29 2013 (FI)
MONEY SUPPLY–PHILIPPINES / MONETARY POLICY / BANKING LAW
Gives an overall view of the Philippine economy during the year, and detailed analyses of developments in the monetary system, fiscal policy and operations, production, employment and wages, the balance of payments and international reserves, external trade, and financial condition of the Bank. Discussions are accompanied by statistical tables, graphs and charts.
OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE
Miclat, John Ezekiel D.
Design and implementation of an open source android mobile barcode inventory software for the University of the Philippines Diliman School of Economics Library / John Ezekiel D. Miclat ; Dan Anthony D. Dorado, thesis adviser. Quezon City : School of Library and Information Studies, University of the Philippines, Diliman, 2015. LG 993.5 2015 L4 M53 (FI)
LIBRARIES–PHILIPPINES–QUEZON CITY–INVENTORIES / OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE–LIBRARY APPLICATIONS–PHILIPPINES–QUEZON CITY
POVERTY
Subramanian, Subbu
The poverty line / Subbu Subramanian. New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2012. HC 440 P6 S83 2012
POVERTY–INDIA / POVERTY–GOVERNMENT POLICY–INDIA / INDIA–ECONOMIC CONDITIONS
The book undertakes a nuanced analysis of: the measurement of poverty and its associated complexities, the importance of a uniform poverty standard, and the major concerns posed by current policies, the US and the World Bank approaches to poverty assessment, the linkages between economic welfare policies and drawing the poverty line.
Through comparative theoretical approach and econometric analyses, it critically reviews and interprets the Indian experience of poverty estimation over the last fifty years; identifies the challenges; and suggests suitable policy interventions towards a more comprehensive approach.
PRENATAL CARE
Flores, Ayan Hazelle L.
Estimating the effects of “family development sessions” on the utilization of ante-natal care in the Philippines / Ayan Hazelle L. Flores. Quezon City : School of Economics, University of the Philippines Diliman, 2015. LG 995 2015 E2 F56 (FI)
PRENATAL CARE–ECONOMIC ASPECTS–PHILIPPINES / ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE. DOMESTIC–PHILIPPINES / MATERNAL HEALTH SERVICE–ECONOMIC ASPECTS–PHILIPPINES
SOCIAL SCIENCES RESEARCH
Bazeley, Pat
Qualitative data analysis : practical strategies / Pat Bazeley. Thousand Oaks , CA. : SAGE, 2013. H 62 B39 2013
EDUCATION–RESEARCH / SOCIAL SCIENCES RESEARCH
This dynamic new book provides a definitive introduction to analyzing qualitative data.The book pairs theoretical discussion with practical advice using a host of examples from diverse projects across the social sciences. It describes data analysis strategies in actionable steps and helpfully links to the use of computer software where relevant.
SURVEYS–METHODOLOGY
Gobo, Giampietro
Constructing survey data : an interactional approach / Giampietro Gobo & Sergio Mauceri. Thousand Oaks, CA. : SAGE, 2014. HA 31.2 G63 2014
SURVEYS–METHODOLOGY
This book provides students and researchers with a pragmatic, new perspective on the process of collecting survey data. By proposing a post-positivist, interviewee-centred approach, it improves the quality and impact of survey data by emphasising the interaction between interviewer and interviewee. Extending the conventional methodology with contributions from linguistics, anthropology, cognitive studies and ethnomethodology, Gobo and Mauceri analyse the answering process in structured interviews built around questionnaires.
TRANSFER PRICING–TAXATION
Cañete, Elsa M.
Basic transfer pricing / Elsa M. Cañete. Quezon City : Rex Printing, 2013. HJ 2305 C36 2013 (FI)
TRANSFER PRICING–TAXATION / TRANSFER PRICING–TAXATION–LAW AND LEGISLATION
“Offers a guide to establishing and knowing the principles, legal basis, analysis, adjustments and concepts of income to arrive at the adjusted profit subject to tax. It also presents the industry issues, procedures and documentation requirements to successfully administer tax laws on domestic and international transactions.”