Statistical data display a high level of sectorial and geographical concentration in the exports of three Central European new member states of the European Union: the Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia. All the three export huge quantities of the products of certain sectors of engineering...

Statistical data display a high level of sectorial and geographical concentration in the exports of three Central European new member states of the European Union: the Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia. All the three export huge quantities of the products of certain sectors of engineering...

Imports is an important factor beside exports when firm-level connection between innovation and productivity is analyzed. Innovation boosts productivity, its impact has been changing between 2005 and 2016 in Hungary. The estimated impact increased until 2010, then declined and fell to the level...

Matched firm-level balance sheet and partner- and product-level foreign trade data can be used to examine the relationship between product mix and productivity of firms, as well as other characteristics, such as size or foreign ownership. The conclusions to be drawn on the basis of foreign trade...

Matched firm-level balance sheet and partner- and product-level foreign trade data can be used to examine the relationship between product mix and productivity of firms, as well as other characteristics, such as size or foreign ownership. The conclusions to be drawn on the basis of foreign trade...

Imports is an important factor beside exports when firm-level connection between innovation and productivity is analyzed. Innovation boosts productivity, its impact has been changing between 2005 and 2016 in Hungary. The estimated impact increased until 2010, then declined and fell to the level...

The importance and the impacts of horizontal multinational corporations in the context of integration and economic growth processes are examined. A noncooperative game with two firms that choose to have either one or two plants located in two asymmetric countries is used. The firms compete...

This paper examines the major economic and institutional factors underlying the surge in foreign direct investment (FDI) flows to Mexico during the 1990s. It presents evidence that indicates that market-friendly economic reforms and major changes in the institutional-legal status of foreign...

The current downturn in the American and Western European economies, combined with increasing regulatory pressure on private equity throughout the developed world, made emerging markets an attractive destination for private equity. As part of the emerging markets, Central and Eastern Europe's...

The actors of economy and politics all over the world have long debated about the effect private equity investments make on economy. The debate focuses on the effect of a narrow group of private equity investments, namely, Leveraged Buyouts (LBO), while nobody questions the positive impact of...