Over the last six years, several arbitration panels have released opinions in a series of disputes raised by investors against Argentina. In each case, foreign investors claim that Argentina's use of price controls and currency devaluation following the 2002 economic crisis constituted a violation of bilateral investment treaty obligations. Despite the fact that most claimants make identical al...

This paper studies international portfolio ßows of US investors to examine the information structure of international equity markets. Based on a model of portfolio choice with both public and private information, we propose new empirical measures of trades due to private information. We show that these trades help explain the cross section of international equity returns, after controlling for ...

the focal objective of this study is to analyze and explore the co-movement of pakistan stock market (kse-100) with the stock market of developed countries (us, uk, canada, australia, germany, japan, france and neither land) which have portfolio investment in pakistan by applying co-integration approach using johansen and juselius multivariate and bi variate co-integration. secondary data of st...

In the stock market, investors can invest in stocks to obtain profit. But there are many individual persons without professional investment knowledge about the stock market. It is difficult for them to choose stocks with high returns. After they have chosen the good stocks, it is also difficult for them to choose the time for selling or buying the stock. So, most of investors would lose money i...

The development of mobile applications has mushroomed in local and foreign industries. This provides a tremendous opportunity for developers. For technopreneur developer, the capital to run the business is one of the biggest problems despite the fact that they may have great competence in the field. The fact that the business has big potential market in Indonesia has invited investors from loca...

Investors and scholars pay continuous attention to the stock market, as each day, many investors attempt to use different methods to predict stock price trends. However, as stock price is affected by economy, politics, domestic and foreign situations, emergency, human factor, and other unknown factors, it is difficult to establish an accurate prediction model. This study used a back-propagation...

financial literacy of investors reduces uncertainty on future decisions and increases predictability of investment policies in financial markets. thus, the lack of clear information on financial markets is a determining factor in the arrival of domestic and foreign capitals and their quick exit in case of crisis. the lack of transparency and basic knowledge on decisions and failure to provide r...

Using a specially-designed survey of Japanese firms planning investments in Asia, this paper highlights the importance of privately-held information in making foreign investment decisions. Information from direct experience on operating conditions in a country is likely to be the most credible, but for investors entering a new country information signalled by others investing in that country pr...

The purpose of this article is to review the results of research papers conducted in the area of foreign ownership impact on company's performance and to highlight the specifics of this linkage in the environment of transition economies. Several authors have documented greater efficiency of private companies compared to state-owned. According to different studies, an alternative option for tran...

In the 13 years preceding 1995, foreign direct investment in the U.S. forest industry increased 54 percent, but the U.S. direct investment in forest industry abroad nearly doubled. The forest industry's share of total foreign investment in the U.S. manufacturing sector declined, but its share of foreign investment abroad increased. During the same period, the U.S. forest industry attracted only...