There are several studies that show the importance of intangible assets in the value of a company. Nevertheless, there are few that consider the influence of their existence on tangible assets. This paper attempts to demonstrate how the existence of the intangible assets of a company affects its...

This paper investigates the returns to education and to experience within the 15 pre-enlargement EU countries, distinguishing between wage earners and the self-employed. These returns are estimated by using a comparable data set coming from the European Community Household Panel during the...

The type of relationship between different modes of trading services internationally is of great interest, both for the academic literature and for liberalization policies under the GATS, because cross-border and commercial presence abroad might complement or substitute each other. This paper...