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Foreign Direct Investment and Domestic Economic Activity
(n/a, 2005)
How does rising foreign investment influence domestic economic activity? Firms whose foreign operations grow rapidly exhibit coincident rapid growth of domestic operations, but this pattern alone is inconclusive, as foreign ...
Credit Market Disequilibrium in Poland: Can We Find What We Expect? Non-Stationarity and the “Min”Condition
(2003-06-01)
This paper presents an empirical investigation of the disequilibrium hypothesis on the Polish loan market in the 1990s. Using data over this period of deep transition, we estimate a disequilibrium model with a standard ...
Banks-Firms Nexus under the Currency Board: Empirical Evidence from Bulgaria
(2003-04-01)
This study analyses bank lending in the larger context of bank-firm relations within the Bulgarian specificity of currency board. It focuses on the ‘intersection’ of credit supply and demand on the side of banks and firms ...
The Marketing Structure in Agribusiness during the Transition in Bulgaria
(2005-01-01)
Bulgaria is moving toward a food processing and marketing system which resembles that of Western Europe and the U.S. Large grocery chains from Germany, Austrai and Turkey are building supermarkets and hypermarkets in ...
Institutional Change and Firm Creation in East-Central Europe: An Embedded Politics Approach
(2003-02-01)
A central debate about the transformation of post-communists countries is how the process of institution building impacts firm restructuring and creation. This debate has largely been dominated by approaches that emphasize ...
Price Linkages of Russian Regional Markets
(2006-09-01)
Exploiting time series of the cost of a staples basket across 75 Russian regions over 1994-2000, price linkages of the regions are analyzed with the use of Granger causality as a tool. Price linkages of Russian regions are ...
Enterprise Restructuring in Belarus
(2006-05-01)
We explore the impact of privatization and the entry of new firms on enterprise performance in Belarus, a transition economy in which reform and market-orientated institutional development has been limited. We hypothesize ...
Leveraging sponsorships on the Internet: Activation, congruence, and articulation
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2008-07)
This paper considers how the Internet can be used to leverage commercial sponsorships to enhance audience attitudes toward the sponsor. Definitions are offered that distinguish the terms leverage and activation with respect ...
Faith at Work: Toward a Theology of Business Administration
(2008-04-01)
The book consists of seven related essays about what faith in God means for business today. Although each is written to deliver a soulful message of its own, each serves as a chapter of a rudimentary theology for business ...