This research explored two major insurance-market issues. First, it investigated the dynamic interactions between premiums and losses using vector autoregressive (VAR) models. Second, it showed how premiums respond to shocks to losses, surplus, interest rates, the variance in losses, and the...

In the November 1991 issue of The Review of Economics and Statistics, Cletus C. Coughlin, Joseph V. Terza, and Vachira Arromdee estimated conditional logit models of the factors affecting the locational choices of foreign direct investors in the manufacturing sector within the United States....

This study examines the government fiscal deficit and debt rates in China. We utilize a theoretical framework to develop the government budget identity and the public deficit-debt models. This approach gives a theoretical basis to analyze the fiscal deficit and debt rates in China. Using a...

This study explains the conflict of interest between the majority stockholders, who have nonfloatable shares, and the minority stockholders, who have floatable shares in China's stock market. The growth of the Chinese financial markets is seriously constrained given the market segmentation of...

The literature has suggested that earnings and earnings forecasts provide stronger signals than dividends about future performance of a firm. We test the information effects of simultaneous announcement of earnings and dividends in the Hong Kong market, distinguished by three interesting...