1. Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences: the Role of Financial Studies -- 2. Risk and Pricing on the Italian Minibond Market -- 3. Exploring Factors Influencing the Success of Equity Crowdfunding Campaigns: Findings from Italy -- 4. From seeker side to investor side: gender dynamics in UK equity...

Foreword / François-Charles Laprévote, Cleary Gottlieb Steen and Hamilton -- The special nature of banks and its challenges for competition policy / Ioannis Kokkoris -- Competition, stability and moral hazard: the tension between financial regulation and State aid control / Joanna Gray and...

Entrepreneurship and the Creative Economy contains a range of theoretical and empirically based research contributions that collectively consider and debate the process, policy and practice of the creative economy. -- The ‘creative economy’ and the broad spectrum of creative industries that...

Multinational companies are crucial actors in a global knowledge-based economy, combining the advantages of global and locally coordinated production and innovation strategies with specific regional and national factors. This book questions how MNCs can best exploit institutionally embedded...

This book provides a study on the impact of Brexit on international competitiveness and in doing so, presents a theoretical account of regional disintegration. In recent decades, the theory of regional economic integration has expanded following growing integration processes taking place not...