Government agencies that procure goods from abroad typically face various risks, particularly uncertainty over future real prices. Interestingly, the agencies can use a counter-trade transaction to solve the real price problem. Because both sides of a counter-trade deal are real goods, not...

Competitiveness in the foreign exchange market depends on both country and firm-specific factors. Country-specific factors in the form of the importance in the foreign exchange market of the home currency and the home regulatory and legal system explain much; of the two the legal and regulatory...

Critics have excoriated the US fast-food industry in general, and McDonald's most particularly, both per se and as a symbol of the United States. However, examining McDonald's internationalization and development abroad suggests that McDonald's and the others of its ilk are sources of...

Adrian Tschoegl suggests that proper science is often neither deduction nor induction, but abduction.

Currently, foreign banks own the banks that hold about 80 percent of the assets in Mexican banks. The paper argues that this is the third instance in which foreign-owned banks have initially comprised a large part of the Mexican banking system, and that in the first two cases (1865-1910 and...

This study analyzes the impact of local linkages, international linkages, and absorptive capacity on firm innovation for firms based in one emerging economy while operating in another emerging economy. Testing research hypotheses derived from the institutional and organizational learning...