Real convergence is the key economic challenge for the new EU Member Countries. The main growth area today is the 'new' entrepreneurial economy of creativity and innovation. But such an economy needs a financial structure capable of coping with the higher risk inherent in the 'new' economy. To...

Distance-related costs have changed at different rates across categories of resource flows and across modes and media between 1960 and 1998. The cost of moving knowledge/information has dropped much faster than the costs of moving people or materials. The costs of processing and moving...

Purpose – To examine the effects of urbanization and industrial concentration on the propensity of firms to export, and to determine whether these aspects of geography affect smaller firms differently than larger ones. Design/methodology/approach – Based on expectations from economic...

This study seeks to determine the point at which firmsize affects firms' ability to capitalize on the export developmentprocess.To determine whether firm size is a prerequisite for exportingand to calculate the expected number of firms engaged in exporting, apredictive model of export activity...