The authors in this study have measured and compared the extent of consumer ethnocentrism across different socio-demographic groups; the relationship of consumer ethnocentrism with different demographic variables; and the effect of country of origin on the perceptions, evaluations and likeliness of purchase of foreign products by Indian university students. The findings show that the Indian uni...

We use mean-variance analysis to demonstrate the importance of a hitherto neglected benefit of enticing MNEs to locate in small and medium-sized countries. During the 25 years from 1974 to 1999, over 1000 foreign MNEs have located in Ireland, and they have raised their share of all manufacturing jobs in the country from one-third to one-half. The foreign MNEs tend to operate in high-technology ...

This project deals with the spontaneous second language acquisition (henceforth SSLA) of adult, foreign immigrants, and their communication with speakers of the language of the country where they live and work. "Foreign" refers here to language rather than citizenship. There are at present about 11 million adult immigrants living in the industrialized western European countries, and their numbe...

Ethical climate of an organization gets reflected in the workplace behavior, attitudes and shared perceptions members who are firmly embedded national culture. Organizations crossing boundaries to establish their subsidiaries foreign land continuously engaged balancing act own values principles with that business environment host country. At same time, they competing already protected operating...

BACKGROUND Hispanics are the fasting growing population in the U.S. and disproportionately suffer from chronic diseases such as hypertension and diabetes. Little is known about the complex interplay between acculturation and chronic disease prevalence in the growing and increasingly diverse Hispanic population. We explored the association between diabetes and hypertension prevalence among disti...

The macroeconomic implications of oil price fluctuations vary according to their sources. Our estimated two-country DSGE model distinguishes between country-specific oil supply shocks, various domestic and foreign activity shocks, and oil efficiency shocks. Changes in foreign oil efficiency, modeled as factor-augmenting technology, were the key driver of fluctuations in oil prices between 1984 ...

The present paper is concerned with the attractiveness of countries to direct foreign investments, that is, the host country characteristics that attract direct foreign investment (FDI). It focuses on two types of national characteristics— those that attract inflows of all foreign investment (intermediate products), including FDI, that is, mobility factors; and those that influence the modality...

This paper considers the impact of foreign aid for HIV on the number of new infections in low middle income countries . We provide causal estimates by improving on earlier studies by addressing the endogeneity of aid disbursements through the use of instrumental variables. In addition, we effectively control for unobserved country specific effects that might jointly influence aid allocation and...

This paper describes a logarithmic version of the conventional Naïve Bayesian N-gram-based, textclassification algorithm that we name Cumulative Frequency Addition (CFA) and its application in three tasks: language identification, nationality identification from names, and detection of foreign words in base text. The new CFA technique is 3-10 times faster than N-gram based rank-order statistica...

How does an unexpected domestic monetary expansion affect the foreign economy? Does it induce an increase or a decline in foreign production? In the traditional two-country Mundell-Fleming model, monetary policy has «beggar-thy-neighbor» effects. Yet, empirical evidence from VARs indicates that U.S. monetary policy has positive international transmission effects on both foreign (non-U.S. G-7) o...