FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC CLUSTER DEVELOPMENT EXPERIENCE

Foreign Income and Domestic Deductions

Home country bias: Does domestic experience help investors enter foreign markets?

This paper investigates whether investors’ domestic experience helps them enter foreign markets. We show that investors first invest in domestic securities and only some time later they invest abroad in foreign securities. We also show that investors who trade more often in the domestic market start to invest abroad earlier. Our findings suggest that the experience investors acquire while they ...

PbB LEVELS BETWEEN FOREIGN & DOMESTIC LEAD WORKERS

We compared the blood lead and other lead biomarkers between migrant and native workers with a focus on the impact of the legal employment permit system that was effective from 2003, which required employers to provide mandatory annual health examinations for migrant workers on lead biomarkers in 1997 and 2005. The mean blood lead level of migrant workers was 59.5 ± 19.4 μg/dl, yielding 47% of ...

Styles of Foreign Assistance: Policy Transfer and Domestic Development in Sub-Saharan African States

With the end of the Second World War in 1945, Official Development Assistance (ODA) mainly from the United States went to formerly industrialized European countries to help rebuild their war-torn infrastructures and societies. By the 1950s, Asian countries and societies such as Japan, South Korea and Taiwan became major recipients of US and other international aid as support for institutional a...

Government’s Powers and FTAs: The Effect of Domestic and Foreign Powers on Multilateral Trade

This paper elaborates on the government's powers - both at the domestic level and over foreign countries. The domestic power is the power against domestic lobbies, and the foreign one is the government's international power. To do so, this paper tries to evaluate the effects of these powers   on the formation of free trade agreements (FTAs). The theoretical framework follows an oligopolistic-po...