Although much is now known about the biological properties of the c-kit receptor and its ligand, stem cell factor (SCF), little is known of the structural basis for the binding and function of this hematopoietic cytokine. By analyzing the activities of chimeric interspecies and homologue muteins and epitope mapping of a monoclonal antibody (MoAb) to the human protein, we have found that three d...

This paper analyzes the effect of repatriation taxes on dividend payments by the foreign affiliates of American multinational firms. The United States taxes the foreign incomes of American companies, grants credits for any foreign income taxes paid, and defers any taxes due on the unrepatriated earnings for those affiliates that are separately incorporated abroad. This system thereby imposes re...

Twenty previously synthesized fused heterocyclic DNA-topoisomerase II (Topo II)-inhibiting compounds were investigated for their potential efficacy in various human cancer cell lines that were derived from different tumor entities. Moreover, different multidrug-resistant variants of these cancer cell lines with decreased Topo II expression were investigated. In parental, drug-sensitive cells me...

Peningkatan produktivitas jagung dapat dilakukan melalui perakitan varietas yang memiliki tingkat prolifikasi tinggi. Ketersediaan galur-galur tinggi dan daya gabung baik akan memberikan peluang besar dalam hibrida prolifik dengan hasil Penelitian ini bertujuan memilih pada karakter mengevaluasi dibentuk dari tersebut serta mengetahui aksi gen berperan komponen hasil. Percobaan dua tahap yaitu ...

This paper investigates how firms manage their savings, financing, and investment when aggregate uncertainty is time-varying. I develop and estimate a dynamic model featuring aggregate uncertainty shocks, costly external financing, investment irreversibility, and time-varying risk premia. In my model, firms have a precautionary-savings motive and real options to wait, both of which interact wit...

The purpose of this study is to identify the determinants of dividend policy in Malaysian financial institutions. Panel data set were constructed from 33 financial institutions in Malaysia for a period of 10 years (2001-2010). The results show a statistically significant positive relationship between dividend policy and profitability, which implies that Malaysian financial institutions distribu...

This paper examines the empirical relationship between board structure, CEO compensation and firm performance in the context of an emerging economy, India. Using panel data on 462 manufacturing firms from the Indian corporate sector for the period 1997 to 2002 I would like to explore two specific issues. First, I have examined how the structure of the corporate board in terms of size and propor...

We analyze the puzzling behavior of the volatility of individual stock returns over the past few decades. The literature has provided many different explanations to the trend in volatility and this paper tests the viability of the different explanations. Virtually all current theoretical arguments that are provided for the trend in the average level of volatility over time lend themselves to ex...

We introduce a post-entry liquidity constraint to the standard model of a …rm with serially correlated pro…tability and an irreversible exit decision. We assume that …rms with no cash holdings and negative cash ‡ow must either exit or raise new cash at a transaction cost. This creates a precautionary motive for holding cash, which must be traded o¤ against the liquidity cost of holding cash. We...

We consider a model in which banking is characterized by asset substitution moral hazard and managerial under-provision of effort in loan monitoring. The privately-optimal bank leverage efficiently balances the benefit of debt in providing the discipline to ensure that the bank monitors its loans against the benefit of equity in attenuating asset-substitution moral hazard. However, when correla...