certain assumptions; i.e., knowledge of any one of these three sequences or profiles is sufficient to determine the other two … the period). Of course, armed with a knowledge of the 7 Hadar and … accounting and financial management literature of the past century, there was a reluctance to treat the opportunity cost of …

Doorslaer and Cristina Masseria Department of Health Policy Management, Erasmus University, the Netherlands and the OECD …

share, as well as intimate knowledge of local customs and regulations. Excess capacity in a given sector in the host … management of the foreign enterprise. It is not investment in the sense of contributing to gross fixed capital formation …

determinants of aggregate bilateral trading volumes. To our knowledge, the present paper is the first to analyze empirically how … expropriation. CREDITOR is an index between zero and four, increasing in the legal rights of creditors relative to management and …

may promote growth in host countries by encouraging a transfer of technology and knowledge and by opening market access … and knowledge and by opening market access abroad (e.g. Aitken, Hanson and Harrison 1997; Borensztein, De Gregorio and … also a transfer of ownership and management responsibilities. By contrast, other papers claim that it is portfolio equity …

- Wirtschaft & Management der Technischen Universit¨at Berlin zur Erlangung des akademischen Grades Doktor der … on the knowledge about the underlying axioms of the index chosen. Therefore the aim of this chapter is not to find the …