With sound framework conditions, fine universities, good infrastructure and policies friendly towards foreign direct investment, Ireland scores high in international innovation scoreboards. Overall, policies to boost innovation and entrepreneurship are on the right track, but investment in...

Political economy accounts of economic integration strongly emphasize the importance of legal contract enforcement. We challenge extant research by showing that relational contracting, relationship-based contract enforcement, is more efficient for high-risk, human capital-intensive activities...

The paper deals with the issues of attracting investments into venture capital and private equity funds in Latvia. The aim of the research is to assess changes in the venture capital and private equity industry and evaluate its condition in the post-crisis period. The period of analysis is the...

Using a unique global dataset from developed countries, this paper provides evidence that not only traditional determinants of international capital flows affect cross-border venture capital flows, but that ties among local venture capital investors are related to size and style of these flows....

The aim of this study is to investigate the relationship between foreign direct investment and economic growth in seven emerging countries. Past empirical studies have failed to estimate the long run relationship between the variables in these countries, which has created a gap in the...