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Selection of stock markets: a factor analysis approach
Hui, Tak Kee; Tsui, Kai Chong; Chua, David - In: International Journal of Applied Management Science 2 (2010) 2, pp. 136-151
This study uses factor analysis to simplify the complex relationships among stock markets and to reduce the number of markets required for portfolio construction. Our sample consists of the US and 11 Asia-Pacific stock markets. We find that the reduced portfolio obtained from factor analysis has...
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Measuring efficiency of the banking industry before and after the recent financial crisis: some international evidence
Mitra, Devashis; Siddiquee, Mohammad - In: International Journal of Accounting and Finance 4 (2013) 2, pp. 143-167
The recent financial crisis has plagued banking institutions around the world. Using a non-parametric (data envelopment analysis) approach, we measure operating and profit efficiency of 21 commercial banks from four countries during 2004-2010. The results suggest that for the most part there is...
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On the causal relationship between trade-openness and government-size: evidence from OECD countries
Molana, Hassan; Montagna, Catia; Violato, Mara - In: International Journal of Public Policy 7 (2011) 4/5/6, pp. 226-249
The compensation hypothesis predicts a positive causation from international economic openness to the size of the public sector, as governments step in to perform a risk mitigating role to counterbalance the increasing exposure to external risk and the economic dislocations caused by growing...
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Do capital controls affect the response of investment to saving? evidence from the Pacific Basin
Kim, Sun Bae - In: Economic Review (1993), pp. 23-39
This paper examines the effect of capital controls on the response of investment to savings in Pacific Basin countries. A robust finding is that the size of the savings coefficient tends to be smaller (larger) in countries with relatively higher (lower) capital controls. Additionally, relaxation...
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In the Same Boat: Exchange Rate Interdependence in the Asia-Pacific Region
Shachmurove, Tomer; Shachmurove, Yochanan - Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania - 2007
Asian-Pacific nations, Australia, China, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, New Zealand, Philippines, South Korea, Singapore …, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam. The daily data span from 1995 to 2004. It finds strong regional foreign exchange dependency …
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Race to the Future: Innovations in Gifted and Enrichment Education in Asia, and Implications for the United States
Ibata-Arens, Kathryn C. - In: Administrative Sciences 2 (2012) 1, pp. 1-25
—to compete in the 21st Century global economy? Countries including China, Korea, Japan and Singapore have begun to integrate … Kong and Taiwan), Korea and Singapore are complemented with comparisons to trends in national policy and private sector … practice in Japan and the United States. Preliminary findings indicate that while progress has been made towards establishing …
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Analogous Cycles with Lagged Co-movement: U.S. and East Asian Business Cycles
Yamagata, Tatsufumi - In: The Developing Economies 36 (1998) 4, pp. 407-439
In selected East Asian economies, the behavior of detrended macroeconomic variables was found to be similar to that observed in the postwar U.S. economy. Consumption and investment are highly procyclical while the balance of trade and the price level are counter-cyclical in most of them. Labor...
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Interindustrial Structure in the Asia-Pacific Region: Growth and Integration, by Using 2000 AIO Table
Meng, Bo; Sato, Hajime; Nakamura, Jun; Okamoto, Nobuhiro; … - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2006
major East Asian countries/regions as well as Japan and the United States. Given the dynamic changes in the economies of …
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Immigration Policies: Competing for Skills
Ochel, Wolfgang - In: CESifo Forum 1 (2000) 4, pp. 27-33
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Import Demand for Quality in Japanese Beef Markets
Miljkovic, Dragan; Jin, Hyun Joung - Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society … - 2005
the United States and Australia. US beef, according to the results of a Gallup’s survey, is considered by consumers in … Japan the high-quality product while Australian beef is considered the low-quality product. Empirical results support the …
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