About This Volume

The Encyclopedia of Social Sciences provides a comprehensive reference work covering the following disciplines and subdisciplines in the Social Sciences, highlighting Economics, Finance, Business, and Other Social Sciences, with each chapter having a designated Editor with expertise across a wide range of subdisciplines:

Chapter 1: Economic Theory and Econometrics
Edited by Michael McAleer

Coverage includes: Economic Theory, Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, Econometrics and Statistics, Mathematical Economics, Organizational Economics.

Chapter 2: Finance
Edited by Chia-Lin Chang

Coverage includes: Investment Finance, Risk and Volatility, Corporate Finance, Behavioral Finance, Energy Finance, Industrial Organization, Health Economics.

Chapter 3: Business
Edited by Philip Hans Franses

Coverage includes: Accounting, Marketing Science, Management Science, Behavioral Science, Administrative Science, Decision Sciences, Public Policy, Tourism and Hospitality.

Chapter 4: Other Social Sciences
Editor yet to be chosen

Coverage includes: Political Science, Social Psychology, Sociology, Education, Law, Library and Information Science.

Planned Papers

Title: European Monetary Union
Authors: Ralf Fendel, Andre Schmidt 
WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management, Burgplatz 2, 56179 Vallendar, Germany

Title: The Barnett Critique
Authors: William A. Barnett
Department of Economics, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045-7585, USA

Title: Financial Integration in Preindustrial Europe
Authors: Pilar Nogues-Marco 
Université de Genèvedisabled, Geneva, Switzerland

Title: Outward FDI: Theories and Determinants
Authors: Mohd Nayyer Rahman; Professor Badar Alam Iqbal
Assistant Professor, Department of Commerce, Aligarh Muslim University, India; Professor Extraordinaries, School of Transdisciplinary Research and Graduate Studies, University of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa

Title: Next Generation of AMR Network
Authors: Jane Payumo; Katy Luchini-Colbry and Evangelyn Alocilja
Affiliation: Michigan State University