Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Preface

Chapter One
Optimal Asset Allocation Strategy for Defined-Contribution Pension Plans with Different Exponential Utility Functions
(Qing-Ping Ma, Department of Quantitative and Applied Economics, Nottingham University Business School China, The University of Nottingham Ningbo, University Park, Ningbo, Zhejiang Province, China)

Chapter Two
Safety and Security in Shipping: International, Common Law and Chinese Liability Perspectives
(Proshanto K. Mukherjee, Professor of Law, Dalian Maritime University, Professor Emeritus of Maritime Law and Policy, World Maritime University, Malmö, Juris Dr. Honoris Causa Lund University, Sweden and Huiru Liu, LL.M. Dalian Maritime University)

Chapter Three
Using the Carrot and the Stick? Theoretical and Experimental Insights into Positive vs. Negative Reciprocity
(Wolfgang Breuer, Anselm Hüwe, Chair of Business Administration and Finance, RWTH University, Department of Finance, Templergraben, Aachen, Germany)

Chapter Four
The Intertemporal approach to Intra-EMU and Global External Imbalances
(Karl Farmer and Irina Ban, Department of Economics University of Graz, Universitätsstrasse, Graz, Austria, and others)

Chapter Five
Political Fragmentation and Health Financing in a Sub-National Framework
(Monica Auteri, Alessandro Cattel, Dipartimento di Scienze Sociali ed Economiche, “Sapienza” Università di Roma, Italy)

Chapter Six
The Impact of Fiscal Consolidation in the European Development Countries
(Socol Cristian, Socol Aura Gabriela, Marinas Marius, Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania)

Chapter Seven
Industrial Location and National Transport Infrastructure: An Empirical Evidence between Queretaro and Tijuana Metropolitan Zones, Mexico(Obregón-Biosca, Saúl Antonio and Ríos-Quezada, Gerardo, Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro, Mexico)

Index