In 2001, $13 million were invested in various grape and wine R&D programs via the Australian Grape and Wine Research and Development Corporation. Half of the funds come from compulsory levies from grape-growers and winemakers, and the other half from Commonwealth government matching grants. These funds are then allocated to research projects across broad areas such as grape production R&D, wine...

the purpose of this research is to evaluate the ability of mutual funds investors to forecast the performance of mutual funds and selecting the best performed funds. it should be mentioned that both individual and institutional investors have been evaluated in this study. in order to answer the question whether the investors have the ability to forecast the performance of mutual funds or not, w...

** Prof. Svetlozar T. Rachev (Corresponding Author): Institute for Statistics and Mathematical Economics, University of Karlsruhe, Germany & Department of Statistics and Applied Probability, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA. // Chair of Econometrics, Statistics and Mathematical Finance, School of Economics and Business Engineering, University of Karlsruhe, Kollegium am Schloss, Bau ...

This paper compares the effects of conventional U.S. monetary policy on foreign government bonds yields with those of the unconventional measures employed after the target federal funds rate hit the zero lower bound in late 2008. We measure the U.S. monetary policy surprises using narrow-window changes in the 2-year Treasury yield bracketing FOMC announcements. The results indicate that an expa...

A US Republican Senator argued that the US must refuse to subsidize foreign family planning (FP) organizations that use their own funds for abortion-related activities because to support them would indirectly support abortion, since "money is fungible." The "Mexico City gag rule" advocated by Republicans would stop US-funded agencies from providing legal abortion or from engaging in a range of...

This article analyzes the issues of improving mechanism providing rule-making process with scientific information. The purpose research is to develop relevant proposals, recommendations, and paper role endowment funds at present, their specific characteristics, organizational forms funds, goals best foreign experience in this regard. To achieve goal, various journalistic articles, opinions scie...