We empirically investigate the role of host (U.S.) and home (Hong Kong) (HK) security market returns as common determinants of security returns for Chinese American Depository Receipts (ADRs) and their underlying H-shares. We also empirically determine the relation between return spread...

Business incubators, by providing timely help and support to new ventures, hold the potential to create and develop entrepreneurial talent at the micro-level and foster an environment for entrepreneurship at the macro level. Today, with approximately 400 incubators and a well-developed...

Networks Financial Institute (NFI) conducted a survey (parallel to that of the Jump$tart Coalition for Personal Financial Literacy national survey) to generate an in-state baseline of information about Indiana high schools seniors and their level of financial management skills and education,...

The Indiana Economic Development Corporation (IEDC) asked Networks Financial Institute (NFI) to craft a project that would assist the IEDC in documenting and quantifying the Hoosier insurance workforce talent pool, so that the IEDC can speak more authoritatively to current and prospective...

One of our principal focuses is on the role of the financial services industry in promoting economic development. There is a large and growing academic literature that shows that a strong financial sector contributes to more rapid economic growth. Nicola Cetorelli, an economist at the Federal...

Networks Financial Institute at Indiana State University, a national leader in addressing both ongoing and emerging issues impacting the insurance sector, provides this descriptive bibliography which addresses the myriad issues driving insurance regulation and reform. This resource provides more...

Regardless of company size or type, soft skills remain a vital component for employers: Insurance companies place soft skills as the most cited overall criteria in their hiring decisions. Banking companies give slightly more mention to soft skills than curriculum in hiring decisions. Securities...

China, a low income country about the same geographic size as the US and with over four times the population, has had persistent rapid growth that averaged 9.6 percent per year since reform began in 1979. On a per capita basis, real GDP is eight times larger than it was 26 years earlier!...

The increasing risks that subprime lenders have been willing to take have culminated in a debacle of rising foreclosures. So far, however, subprime defaults and foreclosures are lower than they were about five years ago, and the problem is likely to be confined to the subprime market, rather...

America faces large budget deficits and a near-record low rate of net national savings at the same time that tens of millions of families are approaching retirement with little or no financial cushion for their retirement. Some proposed solutions, like carving private accounts out of Social...