This paper undertakes a comparative, firm-level analysis of joining the supply chain in five Southeast Asian economies to improve our understanding of fragmentation of manufacturing across borders. The research maps supply chains and conducts firm-level econometric analysis on 5,900 enterprises....

This paper presents a two-country model of investment and external financing that incorporates heterogeneous firms into general equilibrium. The model is solved in closed form and shows that financial integration leads to: (i) a change in the portfolio allocation of the investors yielding better...

Despite Greece’s long history as a trading nation, the country is failing to live up to its export potential. Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) could significantly contribute to strengthening Greece’s export performance, thereby helping to jump-start economic growth and job creation...

L’apport théorique de l’étude de l’histoire de Technip réside dans la confrontation entre les héritages et les mutations qui ont contribué à former une entité économique indépendante au chemin de croissance original. L’achèvement de l’intégration multidivisionnelle de...

An online export market is growing rapidly around the world. Global consulting agencies estimate that the cross-border e-commerce market reached 578.5 billion USD in 2019 and will continue to record breakneck growth, potentially reaching 4.8 trillion USD by 2026. Driving this rapid growth is the...

As increasingly obvious signs tell us that the natural environment is changing abruptly and, unfortunately, noticeably, the natural resources are increasingly depleted but have to support a growing population, strategies for the sustainable development of the society will have to be implemented,...

The effects of European integration upon the support to economic and social development in the EU Member States, upon the convergence process and bridging up the gaps between the Member States represents a field of particular interest, both for researchers and for practioners. In Romania, the...

The decline in the service flow from a stock of capital goods with age, due to the physical retirement of capital units and to the gradual loss of efficiency of each unit remaining, can be described by survival curves and efficiency curves. The paper reconsiders the relationship between these...