Using data spanning the 1996-1998 fiscal years of 247 of Japan’s largest manufacturers, we empirically evaluate the extent to which a firm’s investment behavior and financial performance is influenced by its ownership structure. To do so, we examine six distinct categories of Japanese shareholders: foreign investors, investment funds, pension funds, banks and insurance companies, affiliated com...

*A contribution from the Estación Experimental Agricola en Tingo Maria, Peru, a technical agricultural service organization for the Oriente of Peru, operated jointly by the Dirección de Colonización y Asuntos Orientales, Ministry of Agriculture of Peru, and by the Ofläce of Foreign Agricultural Relations, U. S. Department of Agriculture. This study was made possible by funds provided through th...

FII is an investor or investment fund that is from or registered in a country outside of the one in which it is currently investing. Institutional investors include hedge funds, insurance companies, pension funds and mutual funds. This study intends to evaluate the trends and patterns of FII inflows into India. It also studies the relationship between the selected macroeconomic variables and th...

Article history: Received 17 June 2013 Received in revised form 9 December 2013 Accepted 8 April 2014 Available online 29 October 2014 Using data on China's split-share structure reform that floats non-tradable shares, we find that Qualified Foreign Institutional Investors (QFIIs) have greater influence over the controlling state shareholders than localmutual funds. QFIIs are less prone to poli...

Vives, Antonio. Pension funds in infrastructure project finance : regulations and instrument design / Antonio Vives. " This is a reprint of a paper originally published in May 1999. " p. cm. (Sustainable Development Dept. Technical papers series ; IFM-110) Includes bibliographical references. The opinions expressed herein are the responsibility of the author and do not necessarily represent the...

Using recent data on propensity-score matched firms from the U.K manufacturing industry, the paper uncovers evidence that acquisition FDI is an important channel of direct technology transfer from foreign multinationals to domestic exporters. This is consistent with the recently developed theory by Helpman, Melitz and Yeaple (2002) which, because of sunk costs, predicts firms engaged in FDI act...

With the support of the Republican leadership of the US House of Representatives, Representative Chris Smith of New Jersey continues to attempt to limit provision of US family planning (FP) funding to foreign nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) who agree to enforce absolute prohibitions on engaging in abortion-related activities. Despite the fact that the House is withholding funds to meet US...