Advances in Applied Economic Research

Capacity of the Region.- Education Democracy and Dictatorship.- Are We Better Off Working in the Public Sector?.- Innovation and Regulatory Hold-up: The Case of Shale Gas.- Trinities in Political Economy: More than just a way of observation.- Evolution of Trade Globalization from 2003-2014: Weakening Dynamics of World Trade Confirms Globalization Postulates.- High education, professional insertion and economic development in Romania.- Strategic IT alignment: Business performance during financial crisis.- On the examination of value based performance measures: Evidence from Indian Firms.- The Procyclicality of African Sovereign Credit Ratings.- The Determinants of Sovereign Credit Ratings in Africa: A Regional Perspective.- CFIs for Sustainable Risk proofing in value chain financing Instances from the Asia Pacific region.- REITs: An Alternative Investment in Thailand.- Cointegration between Energy Commodities and the South African Financial Market.- Do Dividend Payout Ratio Drive The Profitability of A Firm-A Case of Energy and Textile Sector of Pakistan?.- Attitude of customers to socially responsible products.- Dynamics of Lending Rates in the Baltic Countries: Influence of Funding Costs of Banks and Risk Factors.- Modelling Farmers' Behaviour toward Risk in a Large Scale Positive Mathematical Programming (PMP) Model.- CAPM model, Beta and relationship with credit rating.- Shocks Transmission through Real Channel: The Case of the Central and Eastern European Countries.- Health capital as factor of social and economic development of the Russian Federation's regions.- Corporate governance, insider trading, and stock returns in the Greek Technology sector.- Internal Audit Disclosure regarding to External Audit in Greece.- Central and Eastern European Countries.- Deterrence, Detection and Investigation of Economic Fraud and Auditor's Responsibilities Relating to Audit of Financial.- Statements according to International Standards.- Can Internet reporting affect the Stock market listed companies: The case of the Greek Listed companies.- Corporate Governance: Legal, Managerial and Auditing Dimensions.- Importance of productivity in non-optimal currency areas.- Greek Brain Drainers in Europe - An empirical study.- The US Petroleum Reserves Practices and the Global Oil Prices: An Empirical Study.- Failures in Elements and Processes of Quality Management Systems in Companies and Their Potential Solutions.- Controlling as a tool for decision support.- Gastronomy Tourism: An examination of the "Greek breakfast initiative" potential.- Greek Wineries on Facebook Wall.- Short and Long run determinants of tourist flows: the case of South Korea.- Assessing the impact of economic crisis on food firms performance.