Introduction -- Foreign direct investment in China: history and development -- Introducing theoretical frameworks: determinants of FDI -- Introducing theoretical frameworks: effects of FDI -- Key steps for direct investment transactions in China: due diligence -- Key steps for direct investment...

1. Introduction -- 2. Foreign direct investment in China : history and development -- 3. Introducing theoretical frameworks : determinants of FDI -- 4. Introducing theoretical frameworks : effects of FDI -- 5. Key steps for direct investment transactions in China : due diligence -- 6. Key steps...

Since 2003, China has signed a series of agreements with Hong Kong in preferential treatments in trade. From the perspective of China's overall strategy in trade liberalization, preferential trade with Hong Kong is consistent with the strategy of a regional approach, which is a supplement to the...

This paper employs a total of thirty four openness factors and indigenous factors to construct two indicators for 62 world economies for the period 1998-2002. While most globalization studies concentrated on openness factors, regression estimates and simulation studies show that sound...

Many people go for training to upgrade their skills which is hoped to pave the way for better pay. But what are the kinds of skills that really affect wages? Employers have emphasized the value of generic skills such as interpersonal and communication skills, teamwork and problem solving. Does...

It is well known by now that before the financial crisis, systemically important banks and nonbank broker-dealers maintained large proprietary trading operations and had relied on those operations as a key source of trading revenue, in addition to revenue generated by facilitating clients'...

As documented in the FEDS Notes article "Trading Activities at Systemically Important Banks, Part 1: Recent Trends in Trading Performance," trading performance at systemically important banks, measured by trading revenue per dollar of value-at-risk (VaR) committed, has trended up over the past...

Using a confidential data set collected daily by onsite supervisors, this note provides a comprehensive look at the performance of systemically important banks’ trading and market-making activities since the financial crisis