Local or foreign influences

Facing Outsiders: Foreign Influences and Local Values in Palau

Local resources, foreign influences, value creation, tradition and modernity. The case of a Local Agro-food System in Jämtland, Sweden

During the 1980’s collective action was initiated with the purpose of saving the remnants of traditional livestock farming in Jämtland. This led to the articulation of a local agro-food system (LAFS) that managed to commercialize important elements of traditional agriculture by adding elements of modernity. Farm diversification was an important strategy that led to the forward integration of fa...

Does Foreign Trading Destabilize Local Stock Markets?

This paper investigates the impact of foreign trading on short term volatility and on the correlation of local with world returns. I find that trading in general is associated with higher volatility, whether it is trading by foreigners or domestic investors. However, controlling for total trading volume, foreign trading has no impact on volatility in developed countries, and only a marginally s...

Local Information in Foreign Exchange Markets

This study shows that order flow in a foreign exchange market only has permanent price impact if it comes from certain regions. These regions are – as predicted by the local information hypothesis – centers of political and financial decision making. It is revealing that orders from other regions only show a very short-lived but no permanent price impact. Local information is so important that ...

Influences on perceived foreign accentedness: Acoustic distances and lexical neighborhoods

We often encounter speakers with non-native accents who produce speech different from typical native productions [1]. Native listeners are sensitive to these deviations and the degree of deviation along acoustic variables has been shown to affect how native listeners assign accentedness ratings to nonnative speech [7]. Additionally, lexical variables may influence the perception of foreign acce...