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Contemporary Issues in Microeconomics

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  • © 2016

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Editors:
  1. Joseph E. Stiglitz

    1. Columbia University, USA

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  2. Martin Guzman

    1. Columbia University Business School, USA
      University of Buenos Aires, Argentina

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  • Provides an authoritative perspective on contemporary issues in microeconomics
  • Contributors come from a range of influential economists and policy makers

Part of the book series: International Economic Association Series (IEA)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Martin Guzman, Joseph E. Stiglitz
      Pages 1-3

  3. Inequality, Poverty, and Security

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 5-5
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    2. The University of Texas Inequality Project Global Inequality Data Sets, 1963–2008: Updates, Revisions and Quality Checks

      • James K. Galbraith, Béatrice Halbach, Aleksandra Malinowska, Amin Shams, Wenjie Zhang
      Pages 7-39

    3. Multidimensional Poverty Measurement: The Mexican Wave

      • Gonzalo Hernández Licona
      Pages 40-49

    4. Inequality, Economic Growth and Natural Resources Rent: Evidence From the Middle East and North Africa

      • Hamid E. Ali, Sara M. Sami
      Pages 50-76

    5. Inequality Impacts of Oil Dependence in the MENA

      • Sevil Acar
      Pages 77-87

    6. Housing and Saving in Retirement Across Countries

      • Makoto Nakajima, Irina A. Telyukova
      Pages 88-126

  4. Income Contingent and Student Loans

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 127-127
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    2. Income-Contingent Loans: Some General Theoretical Considerations, with Applications

      • Joseph E. Stiglitz
      Pages 129-136

    3. Income Contingent Loans as a General Risk Management Instrument

      • Bruce Chapman
      Pages 137-144

    4. Utilizing the Transactional Efficiencies of Contingent Loans — A General Framework for Policy Application

      • Richard Denniss, Tom Swann
      Pages 145-158

    5. Income Contingent Loans for Social Policy: the Case of Paid Parental Leave

      • Timothy Higgins
      Pages 159-168

    6. Illustrating the Trade-Off Between Interest Rates and Aggregate Loan Recovery of the Student Loans Fund in Thailand

      • Kiatanantha Lounkaew
      Pages 169-183

    7. The Financial Capacity of German University Graduates to Repay Student Loans

      • Mathias G. Sinning
      Pages 184-193

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 194-198
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About this book

With contributions from international scholars, this second volume by Joseph Stiglitz and Martin Guzman comprises of theoretical, empirical, and policy-based chapters which carefully utilize theory and data analysis.

Part I focuses on the issues of global inequality, poverty measurement and security. Part II turns to the issue of income contingent loans (ICL), where the repayment in any year depends on the annual income of the individual. These loans have proven to be an especially effective way of financing higher education, but there has been experimentation of the use of these loans in several other areas.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Columbia University, USA

    Joseph E. Stiglitz

  • Columbia University Business School, USA

    Martin Guzman

  • University of Buenos Aires, Argentina

    Martin Guzman

About the editors

Joseph E. Stiglitz is an American economist and a professor at Columbia University. A recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (2001) and the John Bates Clark Medal (1979), he is a former senior vice president and chief economist of the World Bank, and a former member and chairman of the (US president's) Council of Economic Advisers. In 2000, Stiglitz founded the Initiative for Policy Dialogue, a think tank on international development based at Columbia University, USA.

Martin Guzman is a postdoctoral research fellow at Columbia University Business School, USA, and Associate Professor at the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina. He is also a member of the INET Taskforce on Macroeconomic Externalities and a senior fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation.

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