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Modern Economy (ME) is an international journal dedicated to the latest advancements in all areas of international economics. The goal of this journal is to provide a platform for scientists and academicians all over the world to promote, share, and discuss various new issues and developments in different areas of mod…
Eugenio D’Angelo, Mario Mustilli, Rossana Piccolo
The objective of this article was to verify whether, in the decision-making process concerning bank loans issuance, managers have been influenced or not by how they perceive some personal characteristics of the applicant, even if these characteristics have no…
Jinlong Xie
This paper studies the influence of female executives on corporate charitable giving from the perspective of enterprise life cycle from 2011-2015. The research shows that: 1) Enterprises are in different life cycles, and the level of corporate charitable givi…
Mehtap Isik
Gulf Cooperation Council countries have been offering opportunities to attract global investors for a while. Yet, the strong tension between the existing government structures and the democratic elements that are needed for investments to flourish creates a c…
Alexandros M. Goulielmos, 1 1
The strategies—corporate, competitive and current—and the “effective leadership”, provided by linear management—all in all 22—were briefly presented with an application to shipping industry, like BCG matrix, and growth, as well as how to create and maintain a…
Aweng Peter Majok Garang, Kassouri Yacouba, Kacou Kacou Yves Thiery
This is a causality study on Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), Unemployment and Economic growth in Uganda using time series Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) bounds approach based on FDI, unemployment rates and GDP datasets from 1993 to 2015. Curtailing le…
Nicolás Guadalupe Zúñiga Espinoza, Marcela Astudillo Moya
The purpose of this article is to contribute to reflection on whether or not current policies exempting government-owned real estate from paying property tax are appropriate, from the perspective of Mexican municipal finance laws. This source of public revenu…
Tze Leung Lai, Jiqiang Tang, Hao Yin
After an overview of spatial economics, we review China’s recent One Belt One Road (OBOR) Initiative, and the contrary counter-globalization forces in the contemporaneous geopolitical and social landscapes. We then discuss their impact on and new paradigms in…
Xiaoxiong Cai
Nowadays, the real estate prices in China have shown a continuous upward trend. Prices in the first-tier cities such as the north and the Guangzhou-Shenzhen are getting higher and higher, and ordinary people are becoming increasingly unaffordable. High housin…
Min Li, Jilian Hu, Yanxiang Ge
During the last few years, large-scale enterprises that engage in commercial cultivation of edible mushrooms have been growing at a very fast pace, bringing about new changes to the industrial structure of the edible mushroom industry. Co-existence of large-s…
Jiayu Chi, Ling Sun
This study analyzes the relationship among technology spillovers, R&D investment and firms’ cash holdings. We find that technology spillovers and R&D investment have a significant positive impact on the firms’ cash holdings; and R&D investment plays an interm…
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