Between 2003 and 2007, the value of shares of Indian companies held by foreigners went up by roughly 13 times. This paper seeks to explain this event. A simple decomposition of changes in the value of foreign shareholding suggests a negative contribution owing to changes in insider shareholding (which actually went up), with the bulk of the change being contributed by the rise in Indian market ...

OBJECTIVE American children's ready access to firearms contributes to high rates of firearm-related injuries. Understanding the factors that influence storage decisions is critical for prevention. This study examined the influence of geography and presence of children <16 years old in the home on firearm-ownership and storage decisions of northeast-Ohio residents. METHODS Analysis was based o...

This study investigates the linkage between the lifestyle and the intra-metropolitan residential choice of knowledge-workers in terms of home-ownership, location , dwelling size and building type. Data are retrieved from a revealed-preferences survey among knowledge-workers in the Tel-Aviv metropolitan area and are analyzed with self-organizing maps for pattern recogni tion and classification. ...