This paper introduces to geographical and geopolitical pattern of the relationship with neighbours countries of the enlarged Europe since 2007. In particular, after clustering the countries at the frontiers of the EU according to spatial contiguity and shares of common values, a introductory...

This paper introduces an analysis of international relocation decisions of venture capital (VC) - backed companies. Relocations to the US are motivated by economic conditions as well as an improvement in the laws of the country in which the entrepreneurial firm is based. Relocations to the US...

The East Asian countries of Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand provide a rare opportunity to study the interaction between the accounting standards under which financial statements are prepared and the incentives of managers and auditors who prepare them. Their accounting standards are...

Are we witnessing the gradual globalization of national land laws, which have traditionally been considered to be the paradigm of legal idiosyncrasy, by virtue of their reflecting place-specific society, culture, and politics? This Article offers an innovative analysis of the conflicting forces...

The confirmative determination on the specificity of China's Investment-Inducing Policy - the quot;Two Free/Three Halfquot; program raises several technical questions about how to clarify the specific requirement provided by the U.S. CVD law and the WTO SCM agreement. The determination also has...

Sovereign wealth funds have been subject to much commentary and little factual analysis. This study attempts to address the lack of hard data by combining both direct and indirect statistics to secure a more reliable understanding of how sovereign wealth funds invest and their impact on...

Accounting certification in the former Soviet republics lacks credibility. Accountants are not familiar with International Financial Reporting Standards or International Standards on Auditing. Certifications can be bought. Audit opinions can be sold. Financial statements that are auditing by...

Since the collapse of the Soviet Union each of the former Soviet republics has started the process of moving away from central planning and toward a market economy. Part of that process involves private sector institution building. One private sector institution that has generally experienced a...

There are few papers that analyse the determinants of South East Asian firm board size, though there is a literature focusing on the impact of board characteristics on firm value. This paper adds to this former literature, focusing on the determinants of board size for firms listed in Hong Kong,...

This paper has two main objectives: first, to consider country specific determinants that attract services FDI, and second, to compare the importance of these determinants vis-a-vis the traditional determinants that attract manufacturing FDI. Using the OECD countries as our sample, and 1980 to...