This paper closes a gap in the relevant literature by investigating the role of a country's competitiveness on international capital mobility using robust panel multiple regressions with fixed and random effects. In this study, we use the Global Competitiveness Index to measure a country's...

This paper proposes a stylized (hence very partial) explanation of the experience of those economies which, like the East Asian newly industrializing economies, managed to create an economic take-off, characterized by a rapid expansion of manufactured exports, and to maintain for many years a...

This report constitutes the first deliverable of the project ENGIME Economic Growth and Innovation in Multicultural Environments, financed by the European Commission FP5 Key Action: Improving socio-economic knowledge base. Contract HPSE-CT2001-50007

The special issue on Economic Growth and Innovation in Multicultural Environments (ENGIME) collects a selection of papers presented at the multidisciplinary workshops organised by the ENGIME Network. The ENGIME workshops address the complex relationships between economic growth, innovation and...