Progress in Economics Research: Volume 35

In this next volume of Progress in Economics Research, chapters discuss risk measurement methods in financial investments; the expansion of intellectual property rights and foreign direct investments; the role of process in policy-making in the maritime sector with reference to corporate social responsibility and how issues of flexibility, movement, change, and the increasing speed of these events can be accommodated in a new governance framework that takes account of the changed situation for nation-states; enhanced cooperation and the progressive process of differentiated integration in the European Union and its implications; personal metaphors expressed using a sample of MBA students who are preparing for their future careers as directors; mobilisers'' problematising economic inequality in Hong Kong.; and home purchase decisions of the younger generation in Hong Kong. See more