Das Wachstum multinationaler Unternehmen (MNU) wird zunehmend durch Investitionen von Dienstleistungsunternehmen vorangetrieben. Die Produktion von Dienstleistungen unterscheidet sich allerdings in mehreren Aspekten von der Herstellung klassischer Industriegüter. Eine zentrale Eigenschaft ist...

Institutional problems and the corruptive use of social capital give ground for misuse ofinstitutional gaps and cause intentional failures for financial benefits. Based on socialcapital theory and transaction cost economics (TCE) this paper describes how theinstitutional environment in the...

We explore the causal effect of market-oriented pension reform on net foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows in Latin America, which has experienced a wave of pension privatization and FDI in the last two decades. With our balanced panel of 17 countries over the 1991-2006 period, we implement...

The paper exploits a large set of more than 8,000 firms for ten advanced transition countries in order to uncover the importance of different channels of technology transfer through FDI and its impact on productivity growth of local firms. In addition to direct effects, we also distinguish...

Bakalauro baigiamajame darbe nagrinėjamas Lietuvos ekonomikos atvirumas, jo kitimo priežastys ir pasekmės. Teorinėje darbo dalyje yra apibūdinamas ekonomikos atvirumas, išskiriami veiksniai turintys įtakos šalies atvirumui. Yra išskiriamas užsienio prekybos (ekonomikos) ir finansų...

Baigiamajame magistro darbe nagrinėjami TUI srautai į Lietuvos ūkį, jų poveikis visos šalies ekonomikai ir atskiroms ūkio šakoms. Pirmoje darbo dalyje pateikiama investicijų samprata ir formos, apžvelgiamas investicijų klasifikavimas pagal tam tikrus požymius, aptariama tiesioginių...

Germany, in recent years, has advanced to a major focal point for Indian multinational enterprises (MNEs). Between 2000 and 2007, 84 greenfield Indian investments in Germany were monitored. Additionally, Indian MNEs were involved in at least 55 mergers & acquisitions (M&A) deals in Germany...

Shadow economy (SE) represents a controversial phenomenon, present more or less in all economies, whose empirical estimates should be regarded with due reserve. The main goal of this paper is to analyze the nature of the relationship between Romanian shadow economy, expressed as % of the...