Unlike many products in the marketplace, the home furnishings industry in the United States is faced with a unique dilemma in marketing to its consumers, because: (1) relatively little product information is available to the end consumer about home furnishings and the home furnishings industry;...

Data was collected from the U.S. eBay site for the categories of animation art and Steiff teddy bears. It was found that U.S. consumers bought items from sellers in 13 countries whereas slightly over 20% of sellers were not in the U.S. In general the outcomes of the auctions (final price, number...

This paper argues that the currently established welfare criterion used in international trade theory results in conclusions that are not only intellectually dishonest and deceptively misleading but are not as value free as is commonly believed. This is the result of using the Hicks-Kaldor...

International financial crime - tax evasion, money laundering and financing terrorism -- is a generic term referring to the placement and movement of financial assets that have their source in criminal activities, which is occurring in greater magnitude and with greater frequency in the global...

The purpose of this paper is to describe and analyze some of the basic characteristics of the Miami, Dade County economy as of 1960, or up to the time of the Cuban migration to South Florida. This is an abridged version of the paper presented at the 13th International Conference, Vaasa, Finland,...

This paper studies the necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of equilibrium for international economic unions, where decisions are made by the majority rule. While the existence of equilibrium for majority voting within nations is widely studied, customs union theory never has...

The aim of the paper is to compare the most important macro- and micro- determinants shaping the business environment in CEE countries in the period before the membership in the EU. The paper will examine and compare the most important effects of the internalization and modernization processes...

This paper examines the U.S. Free Trade Agreements with Chile and Singapore. The structures of the agreements are explained, the existing economic conditions of the countries are examined, the bilateral trade pattern between these nations and the United States is provided, a summary of the major...

The frequency of foreign exchange intervention by the Ministry of Finance of Japan (MOF) increased dramatically between 2001 and 2004. The Bank of Japan (BOJ) acting as the agency of MOF has also intervened in the short-term money market by itself, from time to time, to sterilize the yen...

This study attempts to identify the marketing variables and methods associated with the successful or unsuccessful launch of industrial high-tech products into non-domestic markets. Finnish high-tech firms were selected as a population base due to the ambient domestic pressures on those firms to...