ASSAY PRINCIPLE: The method is a clotting assay where all the clotting factors are present (constant and in excess, brought by the deficient plasma), excepted for FII, which is brought by the diluted tested plasma, and clotting is triggered with calcium thromboplastin. FII is the limiting factor and clotting time is inversely proportional to the concentration of FII. There is an inverse linear ...

investment institutions with substantial shareholdings in a firm have the resources and incentives to monitor and influence management decisions. whether the institutions actually monitor and exert pressure on managers is an empirical question.this study is designed to provide insights into the monitoring role of institutional investors by examining whether institutional ownership affects the i...

This study examines 2,933 cases of Japanese investment in 27 provinces and regions in China to identify the role that policy determinants had in influencing the sub-national location decision of Japanese firms in China. The empirical results show that the Special Economic Zones (SEZs) and Opening Coastal Cities (OCCs) were a successful policy instrument initially, as SEZs and OCCs had a strong ...

This study explores the relationship between qualified foreign institutional investors (QFIIs) and Taiwan’s stock market and evaluates the effect of QFIIs’ investment transactions on Taiwan’s stock market. By taking the date of easing regulatory restrictions on foreigners’ stock investment holdings as a cutoff point, the research uses the highest and lowest 10 stocks of QFII holdings in three i...

In contrast to the empirical literature’s focus on foreign direct investment (FDI), this study examines the effects of foreign portfolio investment (FPI) and “other” foreign investment (OFI) on economic growth using data on 88 countries from 1977 through 2000. Most measures suggest that FPI has no effect, and some results indicate that OFI has a negative impact on growth that is somewhat mitiga...

Inflows of foreign direct investment generate externalities that spill over to domestic firms and raise their productivity. This article examines the extent of spillover effects of foreign direct investment for firms in the highly disaggregated garment (ISIC 3221) and electronics industries (ISIC 3832) in Indonesia. Both are export-intensive industries, but differ greatly in technological sophi...

This paper investigates whether institutional investors influence firms’ investment in real assets and reduce the managerial agency conflict in investment choices. Institutional investors’ holdings of U.S. firms have gone from 10% of shares outstanding in 1960, to well over 60% in 2005. Importantly, given their significant ownership stakes and investment horizons, we expect them to closely moni...

The objective of this paper is to reinvestigate the relationship between natural gas consumption and economic growth by including foreign direct investment, capital and trade openness in Malaysia for the period of 1971-2012. The structural break unit root test is employed to investigate the stationary properties of the series. We have applied combined cointegration test to examine the relations...