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Foreign direct investment (FDI) began to flow into China with advent of reforms in 1978. Following a period of relatively slow growth, FDI inflows to China picked up after 1990, as China surpassed every other nation but the United States in attracting foreign investment. In particular, coastal...
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assistance tended to have larger numbers of foreign direct investments. …
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This paper studies asset allocation decisions in the presence of regime switching in asset returns. We find evidence that four separate regimes - characterized as crash, slow growth, bull and recovery states - are required to capture the joint distribution of stock and bond returns. Optimal...
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concerning foreign fundamentals. On a learning path, differences in beliefs and estimation risk generate portfolio biases similar …
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the high risk premium and Sharpe ratios offered by small capitalization stocks. On the contrary small caps command large … optimal weights when the investor ignores variance risk, by incorrectly assuming joint normality of returns. These results …
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Manufacturing employment in the United States has tended to fall since 1979. Geographically, the Northeast and Mideast regions have incurred the brunt of this decline and, except in the Southwest region, urban countries have tended to fare worse than rural countries. Meanwhile, foreign-owned...
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-kurtosis. Because of this feature, a power utility investor ought to hold a well-diversified portfolio, despite the high risk premium … the investor ignores variance risk, by incorrectly assuming joint normality of returns. The dominant factor in inducing … and volatilities. We calculate that if an investor were to ignore co-skewness and co-kurtosis risk, he would suffer a …
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corresponding investments expenditures over the cycle. Furthermore, explaining these observations with a household credit channel …
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This paper provides a general equilibrium multi-stage production model to explain the co-existence and co-movement of output- and input-inventories. The model offers a neoclassical perspective on the propagation mechanism of demand uncertainty. It reveals that uncertainty in demand at downstream...
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