Financial remoteness and the net external position

Idea Net Serialization External Application

The relationship between safety net activities and hospital financial performance

BACKGROUND During the 1990's hospitals in the U.S were faced with cost containment charges, which may have disproportionately impacted hospitals that serve poor patients. The purposes of this paper are to study the impact of safety net activities on total profit margins and operating expenditures, and to trace these relationships over the 1990s for all U.S urban hospitals, controlling for hospi...

Valuation Effects and the Dynamics of Net External Assets∗

The traditional current account can be an inaccurate measure of the change in the net foreign asset (NFA) position. Using gross asset and liability positions at the country level, a number of 'valuation effects' have been identified which contribute to changes in NFA but do not enter the reported current account. This paper uses new developments in the analysis of portfolio allocation in genera...

Saving , Investment and the Net Foreign Asset Position ∗

This paper investigates the shortand long-run relationship between domestic wealth, capital stock and the net foreign asset position of industrialised and developing countries. Using cointegration techniques, a link between output per capita, the stock of public debt and age distribution on saving, investment and hence, the net external wealth of countries is established. Public debt, GDP per c...

Business Restructuring as a Method of Strengtening Company’s Financial Position

Restructuring  is relevant for companies that have free capital and need to expand for development purposes, as well as for companies that have relatively large problems with financial results and the relevant indicators indicate the necessary changes. Motives of the restructuring may be different, the authors put forward the following reasons: operation operational synergy, financial synergy, ...