: By using information for a vast number of countries, concerning inward Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) performance and perceived level of corruption, the paper analyzes how transparency, as a reverse measure of corruption, influences FDI. This is done by a fuzzy logic approach in order to...

: About 20 years ago, van der Ploeg analyzed the implications of the J-curve effect for the political business cycle in a small open economy (van der Ploeg, 1989a). It was then shown that a sudden jump in the exchange rates on the election day should be observed if the government, in order to...