The paper looks at the locality question in Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) theories. For a long time the locality issues in FDI seem to have been overshadowed by globalism. Locality issues, however, have been kept alive from two angles one of which includes diverse individuals who are...

This paper investigates the determinants of Polish SME’s intentions to expand production in the context of possible economic expansion on accession to the EU. A model is developed using twenty-six explanatory variables derived from a questionnaire given to Polish SMEs in late 1999. Seven of...

This paper computes Divisia price and volume indices from quarterly data of New Zealand exchange rates and exports to explore the relationship between New Zealand’s domestic inflation and the changes in its exchange rates over the period 1983 – 93. This is a period when the New Zealand...

This paper examines the Ricardian equivalence hypothesis (REH) and its sources of failure in the case of Bangladesh using various theoretical specifications, annual data from 1974-2001 and linear and non-linear time series techniques. The general findings tend to invalidate the REH: a finite...

This paper studies the role of monetary and open economy indicators in inflation targeting (IT) economies through the analysis of a nested Phillips curve/ P-star model for Chile and Mexico. For Chile a real money gap and a money growth indicator are found to be relevant in predicting deviations...

Polish small firm policy stresses the importance of fast growing small firms. This paper examines the statistical work emerging from survey data of the Polish small firm sector in 1999 which tested for the optimism of this stratum with respect to immediate growth prospects and EU accession. The...

This paper addresses various issues relating to technology and transfer of technology such as technology and society, technology and science, channels and models of technology transfer, the role of multinational companies in transfer of technology, etc. The ultimate objective is to pose the...

The main objective of this paper is to model the production and supply response in Chinese agriculture, which includes not only the standard arguments like expected prices but also risk. We extend Lin’s work [1991, 1992] by modelling supply response as a three-equation model. We fit our model...

This study attempts to examine the growth pattern of China’s economy during 1978-1998 from the perspective of income distribution dynamics. Motivated by the model of dynamic distribution, a transition matrix is derived from a panel of ratios of provincial real incomes to national averages...

This work highlights and compares some of the more recent studies and information regarding SMEs in Poland and the UK. In particular it focuses on the SME relationship with innovation, which can be a key concept in addressing questions of competitive advantage and increasing economic output....