Previous empirical work on the link between domestic and foreign investment provides mixed results which partly depend on the level of aggregation of the data. We argue that the aggregated home country implications of foreign direct investment (FDI) cannot be gauged using firm-level data. Aggregated data, in turn, miss channels through which domestic and foreign activities interact. Instead, in...

BACKGROUND Medical tourism-the practice where patients travel internationally to privately access medical care-may limit patients' regular physicians' abilities to contribute to the informed decision-making process. We address this issue by examining ways in which Canadian family doctors' typical involvement in patients' informed decision-making is challenged when their patients engage in medic...

introduction: today the market of medical tourism is growing as one of the competitive and profitable industries in the world. the aim of this study was to determine medical tourist attraction in tehran hospitals. methods: this is a descriptive study which was carried out in 8 hospitals of tehran in 2012. 195 people from the managing boards of these hospitals participated in the study. a questi...

Current empirical literature on the activities of foreign banks exhibit some degree of consensus around the thesis that foreign banks are less efficient than domestic banks in the case of industrial countries, but they are more efficient than domestic institutions in emerging economies. The reasons for such phenomenon include the exposure to tougher competition in industrial countries, adoption...

Cultural and wellness tourism is one of the assets that can be developed to support sustainable tourism. Yoga, meditation, self-purification are components Balinese culture practised by many Indonesians foreigners alike. activities used promote cultural attract domestic foreign tourists. This research was conducted determine whether yoga, in Bali. The method a qualitative where data were collec...