(in terms of market access to Mediterranean and European countries) and institutions (presence of Mafia-type crime … statistical, economic and political institutions) and were elaborated in order to create specific indices. All together, they … this issue. Market potential has a positive impact on FDIs, especially in relation to Mediterranean countries. Provinces …

(in terms of market access to Mediterranean and European countries) and institutions (presence of Mafia-type crime … statistical, economic and political institutions) and were elaborated in order to create specific indices. All together, they … this issue. Market potential has a positive impact on FDIs, especially in relation to Mediterranean countries. Provinces …

(in terms of market access to Mediterranean and European countries) and institutions (presence of Mafia-type crime … statistical, economic and political institutions) and were elaborated in order to create specific indices. All together, they … this issue. Market potential has a positive impact on FDIs, especially in relation to Mediterranean countries. Provinces …

the Melitz model and highly dis-aggregated data on Euro-Mediterranean trade to measure the effect of preferential trade … liberalization on the range of traded products. By focusing on the zeros in the trade matrix, the paper finds evidence that at the … time when the Euro-Mediterranean FTA started there was an expansion in the range of products traded by its members. …

severely regulated. We identify the latter two groups as falling in “liberalization traps”. Institutional quality interacts …

Responsibility (CSR). One camp argues that CSR expansion is likely during periods of economic liberalization because CSR tends to … membership in business-led CSR organizations in over thirty countries from 1981 to 2008, we show that economic liberalization has … cultural acceptance, economic liberalization no longer drives CSR expansion. In this setting, CSR expansion is most likely to …