In a highly competitive global economy, improved access to financing by innovative small and medium-sized enterprises has become essential for enhancing competitiveness and meeting the objectives of the Lisbon Partnership for Growth and Jobs. Although venture capital is a small part of the...

The classical models of portfolio selection could not be applied on a market were the efficient market hypothesis is not valid (at least in a "weak" sense). The aim of this paper is to enlighten the difficulties of portfolio construction in a financial market with institutional and structural...

The globalization improves the prospects for the emerging markets to attain an economic development level comparable with that of industrialized countries. Without ignoring the specific policies concerning the openness degree, globalization might increase capital and technology flows towards...