Venture capital has been identified by many as a vital element in the rapid economic growth of certain regions. The lack of access to capital, especially equity capital, has been identified as a major constraint to the economic growth of rural areas (i.e., venture capital access, as a...

Pull factors provide a measure of retail trade capture. Pull factors for total and twelve subcategories of retail sales for all West Virginia Counties are analyzed based on 1997 Census of Retail Trade data. A method for estimating missing data points and the use of Rand-McNally trade regions...

The use of contracts is vital to market transactions. The introduction of market reforms in health care in the UK and other developed countries twenty years ago meant greater use of contracts. In the UK, health care contracting was widely researched in the 1990s. Yet, despite the changing policy...