Sam Vaknin's Articles in Investing

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  • Greece and its Investments in the Balkans: Trojan Horse or Reliable Partner?
    The foundations of the current presence of Greece in all Balkan countries - including EU members, Romania and Bulgaria - were laid in the decade of the 1990s.
  • Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), Global Recession and Foreign Direct Investment (FDI)
    How will the credit crunch of 2007 affect foreign direct investment in Central and Eastern Europe? What if it develops into a full scale recession in the West and especially in the USA?
  • Lights Out in the Balkans - Interview with Aleksandar Dimishkovski of BID Consulting, Macedonia
    Has the electricity grid throughout the Balkans and in Macedonia in particular improved or deteriorated in the last ten years?
  • Foreign Direct Investments (FDI) - Pros and Cons
    Several studies indicate that domestic investment projects have more beneficial trickle-down effects on local economies. Be that as it may, close to two-thirds of FDI is among rich countries and in the form of mergers and acquisitions (M&A). All said and done, FDI constitutes a mere 2% of global GDP.
  • Don't Hurry to Invest in Macedonia
    Politics, venality, and terrorism are the sole venues of social mobility in this tiny, landlocked, country of 2 million impoverished people.
  • Financial Investor, Strategic Investor
    In the not so distant past, there was little difference between financial and strategic investors. Investors of all colors sought to safeguard their investment by taking over as many management functions as they could.
  • The Process of Due Diligence
    A business which wants to attract foreign investments must present a business plan. But a business plan is the equivalent of a visit card. The introduction is very important - but, once the foreign investor has expressed interest, a second, more serious, more onerous and more tedious process commences: Due Diligence.
  • Winners of the 1997 Nobel Prizes in Economy
    The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1997, to Professor Robert C. Merton, Harvard University, and to Professor Myron S. Scholes, Stanford University, jointly. The prize was awarded for a new method to determine the value of derivatives.
  • The Bursting Asset Bubbles
    Asset bubbles are not the exclusive domain of stock exchanges and shares. "Real" assets include land and the property built on it, machinery, and other tangibles. "Financial" assets include anything that stores value and can serve as means of exchange - from cash to securities. Even tulip bulbs will do.
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