Between 2003 and 2007, the value of shares of Indian companies held by foreigners went up by roughly 13 times. This paper seeks to explain this event. A simple decomposition of changes in the value of foreign shareholding suggests a negative contribution owing to changes in insider shareholding (which actually went up), with the bulk of the change being contributed by the rise in Indian market ...

OBJECTIVE American children's ready access to firearms contributes to high rates of firearm-related injuries. Understanding the factors that influence storage decisions is critical for prevention. This study examined the influence of geography and presence of children <16 years old in the home on firearm-ownership and storage decisions of northeast-Ohio residents. METHODS Analysis was based o...

Income tax is one of the most important costs of companies and it is usually considered as a cost that should not be paid. One of the most noticeable and influential factors in tax avoidance is corporate ownership structure. With an emphasis on institutional ownership and its types in this paper, it is attempted to measure the effect of this ownership and its types on corporate tax avoidance. F...

female heads of households are responsible for the material and spiritual needs of the families because of a deceased, missing, separated, divorced, addicted, disabled (permanent or temporary), imprisonment, ill or military deployed male head of households. survey research was employed in the study. the target population includes rural women heads of households razan city. following cochran’s f...

This study investigates the linkage between the lifestyle and the intra-metropolitan residential choice of knowledge-workers in terms of home-ownership, location , dwelling size and building type. Data are retrieved from a revealed-preferences survey among knowledge-workers in the Tel-Aviv metropolitan area and are analyzed with self-organizing maps for pattern recogni tion and classification. ...

Purpose: This article evaluates the impact of chain ownership of nursing homes by examining whether facilities demonstrate variation in services, staffing and health outcomes across three structural dimensions—chain ownership, chain and facility size and proprietary status. Design and Methods: We link files of facility inspection reports from 1991 through 1997, excluding government facilities. ...

We investigate a household’s asset allocation, housing, and mortgage decisions in a calibrated life-cycle model with costly stock market entry and participation and a risky housing market featuring housing adjustment costs, mortgage collateral borrowing requirement, refinancing charge, and default penalty. Our analysis demonstrates that a household’s liquid wealth is the most important determin...

Firearm injuries are a significant and preventable cause of death in Canadian youth. Adolescent and young adult males are disproportionately affected; however, firearm-related deaths occur in youth of all ages. Canada's rate of firearm ownership is lower than that of the USA, but high compared with other upper-income countries. The availability of firearms to youth is an important factor in ado...