This paper explores the effect of education and transportation infrastructure on foreign direct investment for the French economy over the period of 1965-2017. Economic growth, financial development and electricity consumption are also considered as additional determinants of foreign direct...

This paper examines the major determinants of foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows in 26 European Union (EU) countries using panel data. Our empirical study takes a different approach by separating European countries into two groups: Western (EU-15) countries and Central and Eastern European...

This paper investigates the impact of regulation and ownership on the performance of banks in 19 countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. We test the hypothesis that the effect of regulation on bank profitability depends on the type of ownership structure. The public and...

This paper examines the main determinants of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in 26 European countries over the period 1996-2010. The previous research reports two groups of explanatory factors: gravity factors (proximity, market size) and factor endowments (infrastructure, human capital). Other...

This paper investigates the impacts of corruption, economic freedom, interest rate, capital regulation and transparency on bank risk-taking in both theoretical and empirical analysis. The data were collected from 6 chosen ASEAN countries from 2011–2020. The generalized method of moments (GMM)...

In this paper we investigate the main features of the domestic and cross-border corporate acquisitions involving 38 European countries in the period 2003-2010. The analysis is based on characteristics of takeover transactions such as the type of transaction, relative value of the deal, payment...