People have a fundamental need to belong that, when satisfied, is associated with mental and physical well-being. The current investigation examined what happens when the need to belong is thwarted-and how individual differences in self-esteem and emotion differentiation modulate neural responses to social rejection. We hypothesized that low self-esteem would predict heightened activation in di...

I. INVESTMENT LAW AND ARBITRATION .......................................................................................... 5 A. The Development of Investment Law and Arbitration....................................................... 5 B. Three Impact Channels ...................................................................................................... 9 1. Investment Arbitration Clau...

This paper studies the approach of accounting information quality on investment efficiency, from the context of the Chinese reality system. The empirical results confirm that the proxy for accounting information quality is negatively associated with over-investment or under-investment. Furthermore, there is a negative association between the quality of accounting information and the future inve...

D uring the past few decades, national security plays a central role in the process of economic development. Also, foreign investment and trade have rapidly increased worldwide and have enhanced economic growth in developing countries. Although foreign investment and trade bring huge economic benefits, many developing countries fear that by opening up markets to competition and forei...

Business confidence is a well-known leading indicator of future output. Whether it has information about future investment is, however, unclear. We determine how informative business confidence is for investment growth independently of other variables using US business confidence survey data for 1955Q1–2016Q4. Our main findings are: (i) business confidence leads US business investment growth by...

The paper adopts from the investment behavior theory and studies the affecting factors of financial investors in investment decision-making and the investment fund behavioral deviation. At the same time, the thesis also analyzes the efficiency of asset allocation and investment behavior of China's securities investment funds, and studies its impact on China's securities market. On the basis of ...

considering the importance of the agriculture sector in iran, this study investigated factors affecting economic growth and development of the agriculture sector in iran over the period of 1967-2009 for short term and long term, using ardl model. the results showed that the ratios of public investment expenditure to the gdp for short-term and long term have positive impacts on the economic grow...

Investment is often irreversible: once installed, capital has little or no value unless used in production. This paper proposes, solves and characterizes a model of sequential irreversible investment by a firm facing uncertainty in technology, demand and price of capital. The solution can be found in closed form if simple (but not totally unrealistic) functional forms are assumed, and can be gi...

Investment in the agricultural sector is important because this sector greatly affects the realms of providing food independence and security, employment, sustainable development, and environmental preservation. So, this study investigated the socio-economic impacts (direct and indirect effects) of the investment development policy on the agricultural sector and its sub-sectors in Iran in 2011 ...