This paper links the foreign economic engagement of India's states with the literature on federalism, thereby contributing to an understanding of the political economy of FDI inflows in a parliamentary federal system. More specifically, it studies subnational governments' international...

In the context of the modernisation and development of economies on the southern banks of the Mediterranean Basin, numerous international organisations provided advice in the selection of public policies. Being the “alpha and omega” of the success of economic transitions, increased trade and...

Rapid growth in the number and size of sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) in recent years has occasioned a broad-ranging policy debate about how best to accommodate or, indeed, limit the participation of these funds in the worlds capital markets. The announcement in March 2007 that China would open...

Spanish Abstract: Las inversiones extranjeras han aumentado de forma constante durante estas dos últimas décadas. Si bien todos los países se han visto afectadas por ellos y prácticamente todos los sectores de la actividad económica han recibido en mayor o menor medida flujos de inversión...

The present article contains a brief but comprehensive overview of the development of the Capital Markets Union (CMU) project in the EU to further deepen EU capital markets’ integration. After the Introduction, it first discusses the Commission’s 2015 CMU Action Plan and its follow-up,...

Foreign investors' fear of expropriation led to the emergence of the idea of new ways of protection and adequate treatment of foreign investments on the international level. Primarily, the home countries wanted to protect their interests and became the main proponents of the creation of...

The aim of the present University notes is to provide a brief but comprehensive overview of the European Commission’s proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council “on Markets in Crypto-Assets (…)” (MiCAR), which was submitted on 24 September 2020. It is not...

The investment procedure prescribes the stages and tests through which all investment projects must pass before being accepted or not. It governs the conditions of acceptability and constitutes a powerful device of a priori control. In this paper, we intend to understand how investment...

The investments are still an important factor for economic and social development through their implications, structure and quality. An analysis of the investments role in our country can be achieved only by having in view both Retrospective and the prospective context. The present paper...

The present paper examines the evolution of FDI flows generated and received by ten new member states of the EU (NMS minus Cyprus and Malta, EEC-10) during the period 2000-2011, with the aim to identify their dynamics, composition and performance. Taking into consideration the EEC-10' high...