While oil-rich countries of the Persian Gulf or Asian countries with immense foreign exchange surpluses dominated the financial debates with their Sovereign Wealth Funds, France decided to launch its own, comparatively very small, Fonds Stratégique d'Investissement, in the middle of the crisis...

Purpose – The issue of which financial initial conditions are necessary to materialize the benefits of financial globalization remains open to debate in the literature. In this paper, we try to put some empirical structure on the concept of financial threshold conditions in order to give...

Empirical findings across many nations show that exporters have superior productivity compared to non-exporters and that this relationship is driven by productive firms becoming exporters. The conclusion drawn from these studies is that there is little learning from exporting. We, however,...

Migration, broadly defined, characterizes the movement of peoples and businesses across borders. The latter part of the 20th century saw notable business expansion across borders spurred by currency, capital, and investment restrictions and by the increased ability to manage global activities...

This is an introduction to a new development in the international arena that poses a threat to the ability of countries to tailor patent and regulatory laws to promote access to medicine. Basically, certain international agreements permit foreign companies to sue a country for compensation if...

The science and technology are essential to attain the millennium objective of both the developed countries, that are close to the technological frontier, and the developing countries, that must catch up with the former ones. The sustainable economic growth implies more than the mere opening...

The present paper aims to analyze the impact the economic crisis bursted out in the United States at the end of 2007 and quasi spreaded all over the world had on the (re) orientation of trade flows (exports) among European Union member states in general, and Romania in particular. As observation...

Oil is the world‘s biggest and most pervasive business, the greatest of the great industries that arose in the last decades of the nineteenth century.These words of Daniel Yergin in his book, The Prize (1991), which chronicles the development of the world‘s oil industry, highlight the...

Offshoring has received wide attention lately. Its potential effects, mainly to be materialized in employment and productivity dislocations, are yet to be fully assessed. However, some consensus has been attained as to how to proxy its theoretical definition at an aggregate level. Here we review...

The present paper offers best and worst case scenarios of out-of-cycle-review (OCR) of India's IPR laws by the US. It appears that benefits outweigh the negative possibilities. The paper also details the background of OCR, its importance for the private industry in US, its modus operandi and...