We examine the impact of employment protection legislation (EPL) on individual firms' growth opportunities, as measured by Tobin's q. On the one hand, by increasing job security, EPL spurs innovation effort. Yet that boost only occurs in firms with little comparative advantage at original...

In this paper we present a methodology for feature selection and clustering over variables describing countries' economies and ICT indicators to study and identify investment opportunities, based on similarities between European and Latin American countries. We address two different problems....