What Factors Affect Hedging? Empirical Evidance from Indonesia

What Factors Affect Official Micro-blogging Influence - an Empirical Study Based on Data from Weibo.com

With several years of development, micro-blog has become a very popular social networking platform since it came to our eyes. Nowadays, many enterprises and organizations have registered official micro-blogs to expand marketing activities since they realized the importance of micro-blogging word of mouth. However, the micro-blogging influence of different official micro-blogs varies, which has ...

What is bet-hedging, really?

Foreign Direct Investment and Economic Growth: Empirical Evidence from Indonesia

The paper investigates the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) on economic growth using detailed sectoral data for FDI inflows to Indonesia over the period 1997-2006. In the aggregate level, FDI is observed to have a positive effect on economic growth. However, when accounting for the different average growth performance across sectors, the beneficial impact of FDI is no longer apparent. ...

A general empirical model of hedging

ABSTRACT In this paper, we treat output as a decision variable. Moreover, we employ a general form of basis risk. Furthermore, we relax the statistical-independence assumption between the spot price and basis risk.

What factors affect patients' recall of general practitioners' advice?

BACKGROUND In order for patients to adhere to advice, provided by family doctors, they must be able to recall it afterwards. However, several studies have shown that most patients do not fully understand or memorize it. The aim of this study was to determine the influence of demographic characteristics, education, amount of given advice and the time between consultations on recalled advice. M...