This chapter is based on the work of Dominique Guellec and Bruno van Pottelsberghe (2000), in which they had estimated the aggregate net effect of public research, government funding of business-performed R&D, and fiscal policy on business R&D in 17 OECD Member countries over the last two...

In this paper, the influence of the socio-economic development factors of the regions on retail is studied. The regions with considerable trade growth potential under current values of personal income are revealed using a fixed effects model. This potential can be realized through the expansion...