1. International Investment Developments

Globalization Management of foreign investment in the light of developments

From the long lost past to date, the outlook by developing and developed countries to the treatment with foreign investors has not been the same and passed numerous ups and downs. A transient outlook to the process of developments governing the international investment brings this to mind that the existing rules in this context have been due to political and economic factors and stimuli in diff...

Conservation and sustainable exploitation of plant genetic rsources: International developments

Plant Genetic Resources (PGRs) are one of the most valuable natural resources of anycountry. Biotechnology through genetic engineering of plants and the creation of new plantvarieties can increase the value of these resources. Different technical and legalmechanisms such as ex situ/in situ collection of PGRs, and Intellectual Property Rights(IPRs...

1 International Investors’ Home Bias in Portfolio Equity Investment

This paper utilizes International Monetary Fund’s high quality dataset over the period from 2001 to 2004, to investigate the determinants of home bias in the international context. This paper contributes to the existing literature by using float adjusted measure of home bias for 38 countries. Information asymmetries arising due to countries’ regulatory and legal environment have significant imp...

Investment Income, Underwriting Profit & Contingencies: Future Developments

International Saving, Investment and Trade

Feldstein and Horioka (Econ J 90:314–329, 1980) observed that saving and investment move closely together in the major OECD countries. This finding is a puzzle if national economies are characterized by one sector neoclassical production functions—with diminishing returns to capital, a high level of savings in a country should create an incentive to export capital. In this paper, we show that t...