In this research, we focus on effects of foreign direct investments in Southeast European economies. Using World Bank Microdata Library and specifically Enterprise Surveys, we take a sample of six countries. The model is based on firm-level data of a representative sample of economy's private...

Ongoing pressure on prices for construction projects adds to the significance of cost estimation accuracy in building construction. Due to competition from Asian entrants, main contractors in the plant engineering industry are starting to face a similar situation. In the present paper, the cost...

This article presents in a rigorous manner a methodological approach for the calculation of the discount rate in emerging markets. This calculation requires a robust estimation of country risk. In addition, it requires to identify explicitly and rigorously the academic relationship between the...

This article outlines a possible analytical framework employing recent and relevant World Trade Organization (“WTO”) jurisprudence for evaluating whether technical regulations such as the European Union's (“EU's”) European Community's (“EC's”) regulatory regime for the Registration,...

We examine the effect of a permanent change to a country corporate income repatriation tax system on corporate financial policies. In 2009 Japan and the U.K. switched from a worldwide to a territorial system for the taxation of repatriated foreign earnings. The new system effectively reduces the...

Measuring the impact of political risk on investment projects is one of the most vexing issues in international business. One popular approach is to assume that the sovereign yield spread captures political risk and to augment the project discount rate by this spread. We show that this approach...

This paper discusses the two-sided relationship between political risks of international activities and a company's financial structure. In addition to earlier studies, looking at political risk exposures as predictors of financial structure only, the analyses explicitly take into consideration...

This paper examines the role of uncertainty and imperfect local knowledge in foreign direct investment. The main idea comes from the literature on investment under uncertainty, such as Pindyck (1991) and Dixit and Pindyck (1994). We empirically test quot;the value of waitingquot; with a dataset...

In efficient and complete financial markets, internal cash flows should have no impact on investment levels; but in inefficient and incomplete markets, the Pecking Order theory contends that there should be a positive relationship. Further, some studies show that investments of financially...