The barriers and determinants of foreign fund raisingin Western Europe are examined using twointerlinkedapproaches.First, interviews of investment managers of severalinstitutional investors identified and analyzed problems and investmentbarriers faced by investors when making international...

Europe and Asia followed very different paths to economic integration after 1945. By 2000, an economic union with free movement of goods and factors of production and a common currency linked much of Europe. Meanwhile, effective economic integration agreements were absent from Asia, although...