We analyse regional spill-over effects from FDI on innovation activities of domestic firms in Eastern European and Asian transition and post-transition countries. The analysis is carried out using the World Bank 2009 Enterprise survey. We look also at the impact of FDI on innovation activities...

The paper discusses the contribution of R. H. Coase to economics and his role as a founder of the new institutional economics. Coase also contributed to the establishment of Law and Economics as a discipline, he is the author of the transaction cost theory and of the Coase Theorem. The paper...

The introduction of paper describes aspects of public goods. The next parts are dedicated to a derivation of an optimal level in providing of pure public goods, free riders problem and universal merit goods. The conclusion focuses some specific aspect of mixed goods and implication for economic...

Problems of deteriorating water quality and the prospects of large invest ments for treatment facilities have motivated government decision makers to seek more cost-effective means to manage water quality. The most preferred policy advocated by economists is based on economic incentives. But the...

The Illinois River Basin in eastern Oklahoma and northwest Arkansas is an example of a region where significant growth in poultry production has been accompanied by water quality problems. The primary concern in the basin is the problem of phosphorus in runoff that is associated with application...

The High Plains region in West Texas has been the focus of water conservation policies for the last two decades because of rapid depletion of groundwater in this region. Groundwater is the only source of irrigation in this region of Texas with Ogallala serving as the major aquifer. In recent...