the objective of this research is to explore the effect of international outsourcing on economic growth in asia-pacific countries. accordingly, a panel regression model based on soderbom and teal (2003) is estimated using data of the considered countries over the period 1995-2006. in addition to international outsourcing, the model includes human capital, labor force and physical capital as the...

RGNC: A focused Investment RGNC's activities are focused on the gathering & processing, compression, transportation (pipelines), and marketing of natural gas in some of the largest producing areas of the United States -primarily Texas, Louisiana, and Kansas. Their business model involves three revenue structures: charging transport fees based on amount of gas shipped, brokering sales from one e...

This paper surveys and summarises theory and evidence from recent studies into the contributions to economic growth of expenditure on education and on research and development. Investment in human capital – in the form of skills and ideas-has fundamentally different economic attributes to physical investment: exhibiting complementarity, positive feedback and non-rivalry. These attributes imply ...

The change in the business model of venture capitalists from investing locally towards investing across borders started to intensify in the late 1990s. According to a dataset of European and NorthAmerican countries, we find that countries with higher expected growth and higher lagged stock market returns receive larger net cross-border venture capital inflows. Thus, portfolio companies located ...

We study the dynamics of gains from sectoral versus geographic diversification and relate economic sources to changes in those gains. We estimate conditional correlations between returns on the U.S. equity market and 16 equity markets and 10 local industries from other OECD countries and find that the average correlation across countries has increased in relation to that across industries. We a...

A carbon-based industry, such as oil refinery, needs to change its business model to achieve a green business. Considering the existing too much data, the modeling procedure is complex. Therefore, combination of the Fuzzy Delphi method and System Dynamics can be considered to cover this complexity. The starting point in this work is literature review of prior studies on the same common topic an...

We show that investors derive utility from non-pecuniary characteristics of investments by studying impact funds, defined as venture or growth equity funds with dual objectives of generating financial returns and positive externalities. Impact funds earn internal rates of return that are 4.7% less than traditional VC funds in reduced form regressions. Based on estimates of a willingness to pay ...

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