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This paper examines the direct private equity investment strategies across sovereign wealth funds and their relationship to the funds’ organizational structures. SWFs seem to engage in a form of trend chasing, since they are more likely to invest at home when domestic equity prices are higher, and invest abroad when foreign prices are higher. Funds see the industry P/E ratios of their home inve...

Without an adequate stimulus to focus, the eyes accommodate for a "resting state" that averages about 1.6 diopter (D) (62 cm). The resting state can be made more "myopic" by adaptation to a near accommodative or vergence stimulus. In the present experiment, 21 subjects were tested for adaptation to both types of stimuli. Resting state was measured before and after adaptation in the dark (dark f...

In this paper we argue that foreign direct investment in the transition countries has a dynamic nature, by using firm level data for nine transition countries for the period 1996-2002. Moreover, we differentiate the sectors of activity by the degree of technology involved, using the OECD classification based on technology. By doing this, our empirical model proves that there is some heterogenei...

Companies, industries, and nations often consume resources supplied by unstable producers. Perturbations that affect the supplier propagate downstream to create volatility in resource prices. Consumers can invest to reduce this insecurity in two ways; invest in and impose security on the suppliers, or can invest in self-sufficiency so that shocks no longer present devastating consequences. We u...