This paper reviews the literature on foreign direct investment (FDI), productivity, and technology upgrading, with a focus macroeconomic microeconomic models. It compares performance of various models used to study FDI its effects firms’ via skill offshoring, institutional quality, other related factors. review highlights differences similarities between models, their empirical strategies, abil...

This article analyses how Sweden has adapted to the worsened security situation in its vicinity following Russia’s illegal annexation of Crimea and war Eastern Ukraine. The paper builds on policy research focused neoclassic realism small state strategies order explore the, broadly unknown, from 2009 been implemented practice since 2014, through what observers call “Hultqvist doctrine.” aim is b...

Neoclassic economic theory regards equilibrium, whether general or partial, as a crucially important foundation of the dismal science[1]. In view mainstream economists, equilibrium framework not only an investigation economy in terms its perfect qualities, but also is suitable end goal action. The Austrian school, contrast, sees (or evenly rotating - ERE) merely tendency for activities to move ...

Skills management has been recently acknowledged as one of the key factors to adequately face the increasing competitiveness between knowledge intensive companies. In this paper we present a formal approach to Ontology-Based Semantic Matchmaking between Skills demand and supply, devised as a virtual marketplace of knowledge. In such a knowledge market metaphor, skills are a peculiar kind of goo...