E merging markets are now attracting significant interest among IT professionals and researchers. These markets represent twothirds of the world’s population, generate over 20 percent of the world’s gross domestic product, and are restructuring themselves to foster further growth and socioeconomic development. Furthermore, increased investments in science and technology research and development...

more Qualitative Information Regarding Consolidated Results in the First Half under Review (1) Qualitative Information Regarding Consolidated Results of Operations In the nine-month period ended December 31, 2010, the Fuji Electric Holdings Group's operating environment was characterized by appreciation of the yen as well as by recovery in businesses targeting domestic and overseas markets, whi...

Strategic trade theory offers a way of conceptualizing and testing for strategic government interventions in imperfectly competitive international markets. This survey critically assesses recent empirical evidence, with a focus on food and agricultural markets. One finding is that while many international markets are characterized by oligopoly, price-cost markups tend to be small, and the poten...

Escalating and pervasive outbreaks of animal diseases are posing considerable challenges to livestock producers, industries, and policy-makers around the globe in a context of steadily rising demand for locally produced and imported livestock products. This paper reviews the factors and trends underpinning the growth in meat trade over the past decade and assesses the impact of animal diseases ...

Data for the daily net purchases by foreigners in six Asian emerging equity markets over 1999-2001 provide strong evidence of positive-feedback trading with respect to recent domestic, U.S., and regional equity returns. There is also strong contemporaneous correlation between equity returns and net inflows, which appears to primarily reflect price pressures from demand shocks. The estimated pri...

I test whether corporate governance is ineffective in emerging markets by estimating the link between CEO turnover and firm performance for over 1,200 firms in eight emerging markets. I find two main results. First, CEOs of emerging market firms are more likely to lose their jobs when their firm’s performance is poor, suggesting that corporate governance is not ineffective in emerging markets. ...

We develop a novel financial market model in which the stock markets of two countries are linked via and with the foreign exchange market. To be precise, there are domestic and foreign speculators in each of the two stock markets which rely either on linear technical or linear fundamental trading strategies to determine their orders. Since foreign stock market speculators require foreign curren...

A structural vector autoregressive (SVAR) model of real equity prices in Australia is specified to contain common shocks in international equity markets and domestic shocks in Australian financial and goods markets. Common shocks are identified through the long-run comovements of international equity markets, resulting in the model being characterized as having more shocks than variables. The e...

In most Mediterranean countries1, domestic employment is on the rise, and domestic workers in this area are migrants originating increasingly from developing countries, often illegal residents, who reach their destination by means of intermediaries or traffickers. Studies stress a growing internationalisation of domestic labour markets, in parallel with a growing feminisation of migrations, whe...

This paper proposes a procedure to incorporate the conjectural variation approach in Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) analysis such that the strategic interaction among rival firms in international markets can be modelled. It shows how to calibrate the conjectured reactions of rival domestic and foreign firms. It also shows that the approach suggested by Harrison, Rutherford and Tarr (hence...