Price comparison services are being used by more and more internet users worldwide to compare prices of (online-)suppliers. The characteristics of price comparison services differ internationally. Not only are they different in the reference to their scope of work. Also with regard to the...

Price comparison services are being used by more and more internet users worldwide tocompare prices of (online-)suppliers. The characteristics of price comparison services differinternationally. Not only are they different in the reference to their scope of work. Also with regard tothe technical...

Preisvergleichsdienste werden weltweit von immer mehr Internetnutzern verwendet, um die Preise verschiedener (Online-)Anbieter zu vergleichen. International existieren verschiedenste Ausprägungen von Preisvergleichsdiensten. Sie unterscheiden sich nicht nur in Bezug auf ihren Leistungsumfang....

Contrary to the classical proposition, the works of Prebisch and Singer launched the controversial hypothesis of long-term decline in the terms of trade of primary products vis-à-vis manufactures and a corresponding decline in the terms of trade of the South vis-à-vis the North. The present...

“What is the contribution of economic openness and the domestic economy to income?” is tested using quantity measures of trade, finance, and domestic economic base. The short answer is: “It depends”. Africa and the Americas lose from both trade and financial openness. Asia gains from...

In the Kyoto Protocol carbon sinks became a tool for releasing the economic burden of achieving the emission target. For Finland, credits from carbon sinks might be important since the amount of carbon sequestered in total forest area has been large relative to total emissions. It was agreed in...

Despite the large and expanding literature on pro-poor growth, quantitative studies identifying potential determinants of pro-poor growth remain scarce. This paper addresses this lacuna in the literature for the case of the Philippines. The main driver of rural poverty reduction has shifted from...

This paper synthesizes five determinants of innovation and productivity of a nation. They are namely: (1) human resources and their characteristics, (2) natural and physical resources and their characteristics, (3) systems and strategies and their characteristics, (4) interactions and...

There have been numerous cross-border M&A deals involving transnational firms over the last 10 years, in many cases large deals involving European and/or US firms. Japanese firms see the need to expand their overseas presence in response to their low profitability, the maturation of the domestic...

I explore the relationship in partnering strategy [exploration – based on weak ties vs. exploitation – based on strong ties], national culture and and firms’ organizational model in the context of global ICT Industry. In the highly uncertain global environment, partnering is the one of the...