Over the past two decades, governments worldwide have continued to liberalise restrictions on international investment with only occasional relapses. Yet, FDI liberalisation remains an unfinished agenda in various parts of the world and across sectors. This paper sheds light on their potential...

The aim of the present paper is to describe the investment environment in Romania, to highlight the stringent problems that need to be solved and also to propose solutions for a better investment environment. In the actual economic context, policymakers across all regions are facing difficult...

Located at the heart of global value chains (GVCs), intangibles are documented to have a high and rising value capture, and to depend on both agglomeration economies and global connectedness for their performance. In this paper, we study how the distinct nature of intangibles require countries...