This paper extends Gretz, Highfill, and Scott, "R&D Subsidies and Multinational Firm Ownership," Global Economy Journal (2007) to include the case of exporting to one or two markets. The primary results are that exporting is welfare enhancing for the home country (whether or not the firm is...

This paper was presented at the 17th International Conference of the International Trade and Finance Association, Miami, Florida, MAY 16-20, 2007

This contribution seeks to analyze recent investment trends and entrepreneurship in the free zones and industrial estates of Arab and Muslim-majority countries. Two types or strands of conventional wisdom are challenged. The first strand concerns the impact and potential of free zones in...

The European Union has launched the Process for Stabilization and Association for establishing external relations with the countries of the so-called Western Balkans group: Macedonia, Croatia, Albania, Serbia, Montenegro and Bosnia and Hercegovina. The Republic of Macedonia has signed the...

This paper presents an empirical assessment of bilateral migration flows into the EU-15 countries. Using an extended gravity model, it identifies economic, welfare state, geo-spatial and linguistic variables as the principal determinants of migration flows into the EU-15 countries. The empirical...

It is generally known that high corruption level in the country seriously endanger development, by reducing the reputation of a country and hindering incentives for local and foreign investments.It also victimises society as a whole, by slowing economic growth, increasing poverty, lowering the...

These remarks were presented to the 17th International Conference of the International Trade and Finance Association, Miami, Florida, May 17-20, 2007. The speaker is Vice President for Academic Affairs, and Professor of Biology, Florida International University.

For a long time, multinational corporations did not consider the Third World as a marketplace. Although now emerging and developing markets are getting more attention from multinational corporations, the multinationals do not always succeed in exploring these markets in a profitable manner....

Political risk analysis benefits from a cross-disciplinary approach. For what we typically regard to be crucial political, economic and social factors often are difficult to measure. At the same time, readily quantified economic indicators and market prices often do not capture the kind of...

Lesson Study is a model of professional development often used by Japanese teachers to examine instructional practice. This process is increasingly being touted in the United States as a powerful tool to help teachers examine and reflect on their own instructional practices and make adjustments...