Cet article cherche à expliquer le rôle des marchés des valeurs mobilières dans le financement des investissements des diverses économies de l'Europe continentale. L'auteur soutient qu'un marché des valeurs mobilières convenablement développé résulte, dans une large mesure, d'une...

Le présent article décrit la croissance et l'évolution d'un secteur du marché international des capitaux spécialisé dans l'émission de valeurs libellées en monnaies différentes de celles des souscripteurs, et fréquemment, des émetteurs eux-mêmes. Ces émissions sont lancées sur des...

In this study, n-butanol (port fuel injection) PFI was investigated in a direct injection compression ignition engine while at idling speeds, and loads, 1–3 bar IMEP (indicated mean effective pressure) in order to determine the effects on combustion, efficiency, emissions, and specifically, a...

A measurement program designed to evaluate health impacts or benefits of using ethanol blend petrol examined exhaust and evaporative emissions from 21 vehicles representative of the current Australian light duty petrol (gasoline) vehicle fleet using a composite urban emissions drive cycle. The...

Objectives: This paper examines the relationship between various measures of SES and mortality for a representative sample of individuals. ; Methods: Data are from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics. Sample includes 3,734 individuals aged 45 and above who participated in the 1984 interview....

At the heart of state sovereignty is a tension. On one hand it promises collective freedom and autonomy. On the other hand, sovereignty is laden with expectations. One of the most important of these, which comes from international society itself, is that states will pursue a project of national...

Nobody knows more about designing joints than designers do. This is as it should be and is to be encouraged. It sometimes appears to specialists of other disciplines, however, that a joint may lack certain desirable, or even necessary, features which from their particular point of view may...

Foreign direct investment (FDI) manifests itself in different ways and in order to evaluate the likely impact of FDI it is necessary to examine the strategic aspirations of multinational enterprises (MNE). This involves analysing the entry modes which MNEs use to gain access to foreign markets...

The development of multinational subsidiaries is of interest to academics, policy‐makers and the business community. Although there is a considerable literature on subsidiary typologies, there is a dearth of empirical investigation to accompany this. This article reports on a field‐work...