This study investigates the determinants of private sector investments in Turkey with a focus on democracy. Using the … Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) bounds testing approach and two different democracy indices along with the other determinants … democracy has a profound positive impact on private investment. Moreover, the results show that: (i) public investment is a …

regulations and their role in Czech democracy. Data for the study was gathered from a sample of business institutions in the Czech …/institution. 90 % of respondents perceive that transparent and regulated lobbying has a positive impact on democracy. Moreover … a positive impact on democracy. …

+ employees. Smaller firms, however, invested more in research and development (R&D) and no linear relationship was found for … innovation studies cannot be compared or used in research without deeper analysis of the data sample (micro companies, industries …