Retail is a sale to the final consumer for final consumption. Hence retailing can be called as all those activities involved in selling goods or services directly to final consumers for their personal non business use via shops, markets, door- to-door selling, mail order or over the internet,...

We study the explanatory role of fundamentals versus the effects of nation brands for the size of foreign direct investment (FDI) flows. Using the EUROSTAT data on FDI flows we find that the Anholt Nation Brands Index has a significant and strong impact on FDI flows in a multi-variate analysis...