Portfolio selection models have been applied principally to common stocks traded in the United States and in foreign stock markets. This study examines the efficient set of portfolios selected from a choice set that includes returns derived from domestic and international corporate bond and...

To date, a number of studies involving the use of bond prices and/or returns have utilized the published prices of trades on the New York and other exchanges. These exchange quotes reflect the odd-lot activities of individual investors and account for only a negligible portion of the trading in...

Previous academic research has presented a theoretical basis for a relationship between attributes of a firm's reputation and its financial performance. For the United States, researchers have analysed the correspondence between market and accounting based measures of US firm performance and...

As exports become an increasing part of industry sales, the determinants of a firm's international position become increasingly important. Tests have supported single factors, such as, product life cycle [Lutz and Green 1983] as well as multi-factor models, to explain the determinants of...