We estimate US household monthly elasticities of demand for some of the more popular organic fruits. To our knowledge, this is the first US-wide, multi-year analysis of price and income elasticities for various organic fruits. We calculate elasticities of demand for low-income, middle class, and...

Resource Dependency Theory (RDT) and Global Value Chain (GVC) theory have been deployed in the strategic and international management literatures to address questions of power in dyadic relationships and global production networks, respectively. This paper integrates the two theoretical...

The ease of converting and transferring currency is a crucial consideration for firms investing in a foreign economy. The Converting and Transferring Currency data and indicators measure foreign exchange restrictions most relevant for foreign direct investment across economies to identify common...

This case study presents evidence of a significant correlation between the doing business indicators and flows of foreign direct investment (FDI). Although this does not imply causation, the findings do support the claim that doing business reflects more about the overall investment climate than...

Point and Figure charting is one of the oldest practitioner techniques for analysing price movements in financial markets, yet has received almost no coverage in the academic finance literature. This paper empirically contributes to the existing trading rule literature by providing a methodology...