The outbreak of COVID-19 has tremendous impacts on the globe. In the present paper it will be attempted to evaluate whether these impacts are evenly spread among countries regarding the stock returns. To this end many countries are classified according to their financial system and according to...

Using an internationally linked patent database, this paper compares the types of R&D activities undertaken by multinationals in China by home country and industry. In China, multinationals recently began investing in R&D, mainly in the areas of product and manufacturing process development....