held back by a sharp fall in investment rates, which has left firms with little need for bond borrowing. Even so, markets … have developed in other ways, to such an extent that substantial amounts of foreign portfolio investment have begun to flow … investment likely to rise, ASEAN5 bond markets could expand rapidly over the next decade, holding out the prospect that the …

The paper provides a systematic analysis of bilateral, source and host factors driving portfolio equity investment …

The prolonged investment decline in post-Asian crisis emerging Asia, in contrast to the swift recovery of economic … growth, has remained a puzzle. This paper shows that the post-crisis investment recession has been mainly concentrated in the …

The paper shows that Asia's degree of financial integration, both with the world and within the region remains low by …

sample suggest that one factor holding back investment in foreign bonds in East Asia may be limited geographical … of financial integration or interrelatedness, asking how Asia compares with Europe and Latin America and with the base … more financially integrated than other regions. Asia, more interestingly, already seems to have made more progress on this …

. While some countries need to raise consumption, several need to raise investment or reorient it from tradable to nontradable … sectors. These changes in investment could be facilitated by financial reforms that enhance domestically oriented firmsâ … uncertainty, and by improvements in infrastructure that raise the returns to private investment. …

The paper compares trends in financial integration within Asia with those in industrialized countries and other …

Stock markets play a key role in corporate financing in Asia. However, despite their increasing importance in terms of … size and cross-border investment activity, the region’s markets are reputed to be more “idiosyncratic†and less …€œnoise†in stock pricing, which suggests that improvements in the regulation of securities markets in Asia could enhance the role …

The literature on the investment technology of foreign versus domestic investors has inconclusive results. This paper …