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Most of the sixteen articles by Australian, Indonesian and Hong Kong scholars in this collection in honour of Professor Jamie Mackie concern aspects of Indonesian history and development. Other essays include biographical notes from Professors H Feith and J Legge, patterns of Chinese migration, and coups, democracy and human rights in the Asia-Pacific region. With bibliography and index.

Many recent papers have estimated components of the disturbance term in the "market model" of equity returns. In particular, several studies of regulatory changes and other policy events have decomposed the event effects in order to allow for heterogeneity across firms. In this paper we demonstrate that the econometric method applied in some papers yields biased and inconsistent estimates of the model parameters. We demonstrate the consistency of a simple and easily-implemented alternative method.

A book for medical microbiologists and microbiology. It is organized on a taxonomic basis: each organism has its own chapter in which all relevant techniques are described.

An exciting new anthology filled with stories that present a brighter vision of the future featuring today's top-level talent. No doom-and-gloom here! These sci-fi tales are meant to inspire hope and restore the belief that a better world is possible.