What is the Best Firm Size to Invest?

What Is the Best Research Globally?

Dr. Afshari’s editorial gives insight on human nature (1). Collaborative willingness usually occurs when different sides perceive personal benefit, or when institutions mandate collaboration. This is not unique between higher and lower income countries; many working in global emergency medicine (EM) observe this within wealthier countries. It exists among collaborators in low resource settings....

What Determines Firm Size?

Motivated by theories of the rm, which we classify as \technological" or \organizational", we analyze the determinants of rm size across industries and across countries in a sample of 15 European countries. We nd that, on average, rms facing larger markets are larger. At the industry level, we nd rms in the utility sector are large, perhaps because they enjoy a natural, or o cially sanctioned, ...

To Invest or Not to Invest, That Is the Question: Analysis of Firm Behavior under Anticipated Shocks

When companies are faced with an upcoming and expected economic shock some of them tend to react better than others. They adapt by initiating investments thus successfully weathering the storm, while others, even though they possess the same information set, fail to adopt the same business strategy and eventually succumb to the crisis. We use a unique setting of the recent financial crisis in C...

What is "Race-To-The-Bottom" Effect On FDI Inflow?

What is the best fiducial ?

addresses the question: what is the best fiducial? A set of criteria that are desirable in an optically tracked fiducial are presented and a new fiducial image set is designed that meets these criteria. The images in this set utilize a square black-border pattern with a 15% border width and an interior image that supports orientation determination and unique identification. The interior image i...