This series spans the globe presenting leading research in economics. International applications and examples of economic progress are invaluable in a troubled world with economic booms bursting like so many penny balloons. Topics discussed include twelve fundamental contemporaneous contributions for the advancement of economic thought; modern approaches to natural monopoly identification and regulation under Russian economic reform; credit accessibility and small and medium sized enterprises growth in Vietnam; a solution for economic growth in developing countries; long term forecast of GDP in the context of Quasi-Solow balanced economic growth; purple oceans and the M&A virtuous circle new concepts for the theory of mergers & acquisitions; effects of labor migration on technical efficiency for rice-producing households in the Mekong river delta of Vietnam; and unified quasi-maximum likelihood estimation theory for stable and unstable Markov bilinear processes.