We examine the determinants of commercial real estate investments using a unique set of panel data series for 47 countries worldwide, ranging from 2000 to 2009. We explore how different socio-economic, demographic and institutional characteristics affect commercial real estate investment...

La importancia y el prestigio de los logros deportivos hoy es tal, que los países están dispuestos a invertir mucho dinero en actividades que contribuyan a este objetivo, que ha llegado a adquirir un carácter nacional. España no está ajena a esta realidad y ya en 1988 creó la Asociación...

We address the attractiveness of worldwide 66 countries for institutional real estate investments by the construction of a composite index. For the index' composition, we refer to the results of prior research on the parameters determining real estate investment activity on an aggregated country...

Why is there such a strong private equity market in the United States or the United Kingdom? Why is activity relatively low in several other economically important countries? And why is it zero or close to zero in many emerging regions? Spatial variations of private equity activity result from...

We derive discount rates for depreciation and amortization tax shields resulting from asset step-ups in corporate mergers and acquisitions. By assigning all relevant sources of uncertainty for such kind of tax shields and by accounting for corporate debt it is shown that for APV valuations r*, a...

We contribute to the knowledge about the capital flow from institutional investors, via Venture Capital (VC) funds as intermediaries, to their final destination, entrepreneurial ventures. Therefore, we run a world-wide survey among 1,079 institutional investors to determine the importance of...

We contribute to the question of why some countries are more attractive for foreign direct investment (FDI) than others by constructing a composite measure that describes a host country's attractiveness for receiving FDI. This index considers all identified major, measurable and, for our scope,...

En los últimos quince años, la realidad socioeconómica ha sufrido un importante proceso de cambio que ha tenido un reflejo especial en el mundo de la empresa y en la sociedad en general. El estancamiento de la población española y su progresivo envejecimiento, debido al aumento de la...

La conciliación de la vida laboral y familiar ha pasado a ser uno de los grandes temas que afectan al mundo social, empresarial y político de los últimos años, y lo será aún más en el futuro. El estudio relaciona las informaciones estadísticas a escala nacional y europea, que permiten...

This research paper analyses the characteristics of part-time work and its development in Europe. Special attention is given to Spain, where part-time work has not yet become fully established, as only 8% of the Spanish labour force are part-timers, as opposed to an average of 17% in Europe as a...