vocational training is one of the crucial elements for generation that is going to be a part of skilled workforce of this world of work and to reduce the level of poverty.  it quickly enables a person to be a part of competitive workforce by enhancing their skills so that he may cope with the rapidly changing technological job and environment. the core objective of this study is to examine the ...

Dissimilarities Between Domestic and Foreign Money Management at Home: Evidence from Italy Reasons of financial sophistication of investment strategies and institutional biases lead to the assumption that money managers may behave differently from one country to another. Using data from Italy, this study investigates whether domestic and foreign mutual funds differ in terms of management approa...

ultinational corporations (MNCs) typically use long-term sources of funds to finance long-term projects. They have access to both domestic and foreign sources of funds. It is worthwhile for MNCs to consider all possible forms of financing before making their final decisions. Financial managers must be aware of their sources of long-term funds so that they can finance international projects in a...

Existing studies of country funds utilize return measures and do not consider the effects of investor risk specifically. We examine the time-varying asymmetric investor risk hypothesis for country fund premiums and find that volume and volatility in both the U.S. and foreign markets are generally important. While the U.S. volume and volatility are more important than similar foreign variables o...

We examine the portfolio turnover of mutual funds from 29 countries across the world and for the period 1999 to 2004. Our results indicate that turnover in foreign securities is higher in the countries that are less developed, have less investor protection, have lower information disclosure standard, and are less familiar to the fund managers. The negative relationship between turnover in forei...

introduction: given the crucial role of financial aids and grants in research progress, the present communication attempts to study the research funding situation in iran during 2008-2011. research method: the present paper applies a scientometric method to study the data related to iranian scientific productions extracted from science citation index expanded. the data are analyzed using excel ...

1 Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta E C O N O M I C R E V I E W Third Quarter 2001 diversify their portfolios into foreign markets. Indeed, the net new cash flow into international funds in 2000 was $49.9 billion (ICI 2001). Most advocates of international investing focus on the diversification benefits of adding assets that have relatively low correlations with domestic stock portfolios. Another...

This paper examines whether country mutual funds respond differently to the up– and down-side conditions in its underlying risk factors, namely, return on the US market, the foreign benchmark and the foreign exchange market. Our sample includes 15 CEFs and 19 ETFs that are traded in the US financial markets and designed to mimic performances of certain foreign country benchmarks. Using a 3–fact...

This paper provides a set of empirical tests of the cross-sectional variation of stock volatility and investablility, where investability is defined as the degree to which a stock is accessible to foreigners. Unlike previous studies, which focus on market volatility and market return, we study the relationship between individual stock return volatility and its investablility. Our findings have ...