The main objective of the paper is to identify and quantify the infl uence of institutional environment on infl ows of foreign direct investment in European post-socialist countries and countries of Latin America. The reference period is the period 1996–2012 due to data availability. The World...

The objective of the study is to analyse the Czech position in the fi eld of global competitiveness. In the past, the only data used for evaluating the position of a country were “hard data”: data that were measurable. Nowadays, many research institutions as well as scientists have come with...

In recent years, it is not only a researcher, or a developer, who is important for technology innovation, but increasingly important there have become the micro and macro environment of the institution/company. Since, many times, technology innovation requires cooperation within the business...

Richard Cantillon was an irish merchant and banker whose birth, youth, fi nancila activities and even death are secret. We know that he operated in France. Nowadays there has preserved the only his book, but this is often considered to be the fi rst trully systematic economic treatise. Cantillon...

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