Various alternatives are available when designing a data collection system for portfolio investment (PI) statistics, in the context of balance of payments (BOP) and international investment position (IIP). Such systems differ according to the reporting agents they target, periodicity and level of aggregation, while the corresponding results vary in terms of implementation and running costs, ava...

CONDENSED statements of Association finances for the year 1952, prepared by the auditing firm of G. P. Graham & Company, are published herewith, in order that the entire membership may be fully informed regarding the financial operations, obligations, and resources of the AAAS. The first two statements summarize operating receipts and expenditures. Once again the annuity payments to the Cattell...

We expose a theorem of Pila and Wilkie on counting rational points in sets definable in o-minimal structures and some applications of this theorem to problems in diophantine geometry due to Masser, Peterzil, Pila, Starchenko, and Zannier.

William L. Wilkie is Nathe Professor of Marketing, University of Notre Dame (e-mail: [email protected]). How Did This Issue Come About? For much of my career, I have been intrigued with trying to comprehend what the field of marketing is actually about (and what it might be about, what it could be about, what it should be about, and so forth). In recent years, I have joined with my colleague Eliza...

This paper studies environments where individuals allocate resources across relationships with others, creating a weighted, directed network. Value is achieved both through an exogenous factor and maintaining close connections to high-value individuals. We consider two cases corresponding to the direction benefits flow along links. In Model A (for “asking”) agents receive benefits through the l...

Optimal capacitor placement, considering power system loss reduction, voltage profile improvement, line reactive power decrease and power factor correction, is of particular importance in power system planning and control. The distribution system operator calculates the optimal place, number and capacity of capacitors based on two major purposes: active power loss reduction and return on invest...

Starting from reviewing the transnational venture capital investment phenomena, this article points out the necessity to study the transnational venture capital investment, and establish a theoretical framework about the research of the transnational venture capital investment. The framework is composed by the entry system that both investors and attractors find the values of the venture capita...

This study investigates whether personal taxes are related to asset valuations. The effective tax rate of investment income fluctuated considerably since federal income taxes were introduced. The main result of the paper demonstrates that there is an economically and statistically significant relationship between asset valuations and personal tax rates. Stock valuations tend to be higher when t...

Now the investment promotion administration is carried out by the External Affairs Office of every city’s government without effective information integration. The building of City Investment Promotion Information Network System will be helpful for meeting the foreign investor’s information demands in a fast, easy and accurate way from all directions and levels. What’s more, it also helps to im...