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...

Using data on 2884 manufacturing equity joint venture projects in China during 1993-1996, this paper estimates the importance of host wages to location choice and investigates how these decisions vary with the factor intensity of the activity and demand conditions in China’s largest export market. We employ a control-function technique for conditional logit developed by Petrin and Train (2010) ...

Foreign direct investment in developing countries has recently received a renewed attention as a major determinant of financial development. Indeed, where markets are financially constrained, foreign investment offers a viable financing opportunity assorted with a transfer of technological and managerial know-how. In this paper, we examine the determinants of foreign investors’ participation in...

This paper looks at 800,000 messages on the Unicredit stock, exchanged by 7,500 investors in the Finanzaonline.com forum, between 2005 and 2012 and measured collective interpretations of stock market trends. We examined the correlation patterns between market uncertainty, bad news and investors' network structure by measuring the investors' communication patterns. Our results showed that the in...

We propose an optimal consumption and investment model with asymmetric longterm/short-term tax rates for a small investor. We also consider both the case where an investor can get full tax rebate for capital losses and the case where the investor can only carry over capital losses. The full rebate case is a better model for low income investors while the carry over case is more suited for wealt...

The literature assumes that the order and timing of analysts’earnings forecasts are determined exogenously. Ignoring strategic timing decisions of analysts may lead to inconsistent estimates of investors’beliefs. The paper analyzes the equilibrium timing strategies for analysts, and derives the consistent estimates of investors’beliefs. I follow the literature in assuming that analysts care for...

Collectables are often considered as an alternative to stocks for investing. Technological advancements have facilitated collectible investment, allowing information to be transferred worldwide between millions of investors in electronic markets such as online auctions. This research examines the behaviors of these electronic market investors, especially as they compare to traditional stock mar...

Tranforming energy systems to fulfill the needs of a low-carbon economy requires large investments in renewable electricity production (RES-E). Recent literature underlines the need to take a closer look at the composition of the RES-E investor group in order to understand the motives and investment processes of different types of investors. However, existing energy policies generally consider ...