Eine besondere Herausforderung bei grenzüberschreitenden Investitionen sind aus Sicht der investierenden Firmen die langfristigen Wirtschaftsbedingungen in den jeweiligen Zielländern: Rechtssicherheit, politische und wirtschaftliche Stabilität. Zumeist werden diese Faktoren in Form von...

In the course of transition from planned economies to market economies, foreign direct investment played an important role and contributed to international economic integration in Central and Eastern Europe. This paper investigates the determinants of FDI in Central and Eastern Europe, a region...

In this paper, the authors construct country-specific chronologies of the house price bubbles for 12 OECD countries over the period 1969:Q1-2009:Q4. These chronologies are obtained using a combination of a fundamental approach and a filter approach. The resulting speculative bubble chronology is...