This article aims at analysing how housing choices are formed in the particular housing market contexts and in the interplay with professional market practices, which is especially topical for understanding the functioning of the contemporary marketised housing fields. The research is based on a...

Innovations have been seen as the key factor for the European Union economies to survive in international competition (see Lisbon agreement etc.). Consequently, there are many programmes and policies encouraging universities’ participation in international, national and regional innovation...

This paper studies the Estonian housing market, which, being the market with fastest growing prices in CEE, has undergone a rapid growth that has been oft en explained solely by an active convergence process to more advanced European countries. The study seeks to discuss the effects of changes...

The impact of a corporate taxation regime on the application of performance indicators of companies is one of the issues receiving inadequate coverage in finance literature. This paper discusses some issues that relate to the use of return on equity (ROE) and price-to-book (P/B) ratios under...

This paper examines the price adjustment patterns, at the store level, in a transition economy. Empirical estimates of the extent of price rigidities are provided for selected final goods and services in Slovakia, and are compared with similar estimates from selected developed economies, namely...

Growth is one tool for measuring the success and performance of fi rms. Although firms do not always have growth as their main objective, the ability to grow is an important aspect for them. Storey (1994) suggests that there are three categories of factors that infl uence the growth of small...

The following research identifies factors that affect the financial decisions of nascent entrepreneurs starting a business in Russia compared to some other countries based on empirical data of Global Entrepreneurship Monitor. The main objective is to spotlight the role of the business climate,...

Currently universities are acting as eminent channels for structural fund interventions in EU countries. This paper studies the experiences of regional universities in a long-standing EU country (Finland) and in a recently joining EU country (Romania). Results are based on expert interviews...

This paper explores how structural properties of small firms’ networks emerge from the ways firms exchange knowledge. In particular we are interested in analysing if and under which conditions the need for knowledge exchange within a set of co-located small firms is able to generate a more or...