This research aims to analyze the determinants of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in 31 Asian countries in 2002 - 2017. The determinant variables of FDI are political stability, inflation rate, trade openness, exchange rate, market size and interest rate. This study uses the Generalized Method...

To examine the drivers of innovation, this paper studies the global R&D effort to fight the deadliest diseases and presents four results. We find: (1) global pharmaceutical R&D activity - measured by clinical trials - typically follows the 'law of diminishing efforts': i.e. the elasticity of R&D...

To examine the drivers of innovation, this paper studies the global R and D effort to fight the deadliest diseases and presents four results. We find: (1) global pharmaceutical R and D activity-measured by clinical trials-typically follows the 'law of diminishing effort': id est the elasticity...