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UNINA9910451130003321 |
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The Internationalization of equity markets [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Jeffrey A. Frankel |
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Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, c1994 |
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1-281-43093-5 |
9786611430931 |
0-226-26021-6 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (428 p.) |
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A National Bureau of Economic Research project report |
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Securities |
International finance |
Stock exchanges |
Portfolio management |
Investments, Foreign |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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"The papers were originally presented at a conference held in San Francisco, California, on October 1-2, 1993."--Pref. |
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
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Front matter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. A Test of the International CAPM Using Business Cycles Indicators as Instrumental Variables -- 2. An Exploratory Investigation of the Fundamental Determinants of National Equity Market Returns -- 3. Tests of CAPM on an International Portfolio of Bonds and Stocks -- 4. International Equity Transactions and U.S. Portfolio Choice -- 5. The Effect of Barriers to Equity Investment in Developing Countries -- 6. International Experiences with Securities Transaction Taxes -- 7. Price Volatility and Volume Spillovers between the Tokyo and New York Stock Markets -- 8. What Moves the Discount on Country Equity Funds? -- Contributors -- Author Index -- Subject Index |
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This timely volume addresses three important recent trends in the internationalization of United States equity markets: extensive market integration through foreign investment and links among stock prices around the world; increasing securitization as countries such as Japan |
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come to rely more than ever before on markets in equities and bonds at the expense of banks; and the opening of national financial systems of newly industrializing countries to international financial flows and institutions, as governments remove capital controls and other barriers. Eight essays examine such issues as the current extent of international market integration, gains to U.S. investors through international diversification, home-country bias in investing, the role of time and location around the world in stock trading, and the behavior of country funds. Other, long-standing questions about equity markets are also addressed, including market efficiency and the accuracy of models of expected returns, with a particular focus on variances, covariances, and the price of risk according to the Capital Asset Pricing Model. |
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UNINA9910463686803321 |
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Autore |
Rosenthal Laura J (Laura Jean), <1960-> |
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Infamous commerce : prostitution in eighteenth-century British literature and culture / / Laura J. Rosenthal |
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Ithaca, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : Cornell University Press, , 2006 |
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©2006 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (283 pages) : illustrations |
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English literature - 18th century - History and criticism |
Prostitutes in literature |
Prostitution - Great Britain - History - 18th century |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. A "Cool State of Indifference": Mother Creswell's Academy -- 2. The "Deluge of Depravity": Bernard Mandeville and the Reform Societies -- 3. Whore, Turk, and Jew: Defoe's Roxana -- 4. Fanny's Sisters: The Prostitute Narrative -- 5. Clarissa among the Whores -- 6. Tom Jones |
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and the "New Vice" -- 7. Risky Business in the South Seas and Back -- Conclusion: Usury of the Heart -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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In Infamous Commerce, Laura J. Rosenthal uses literary and historical sources to explore the meaning of prostitution from the Restoration through the eighteenth century, showing how both reformers and libertines constructed the modern meaning of sex work during this period. From Grub Street's lurid "whore biographies" to the period's most acclaimed novels, the prostitute was depicted as facing a choice between abject poverty and some form of sex work.Prostitution, in Rosenthal's view, confronted the core controversies of eighteenth-century capitalism: luxury, desire, global trade, commodification, social mobility, gender identity, imperialism, self-ownership, alienation, and even the nature of work itself. In the context of extensive research into printed accounts of both male and female prostitution-among them sermons, popular prostitute biographies, satire, pornography, brothel guides, reformist writing, and travel narratives-Rosenthal offers in-depth readings of Samuel Richardson's Clarissa and Pamela and the responses to the latter novel (including Eliza Haywood's Anti-Pamela), Bernard Mandeville's defenses of prostitution, Daniel Defoe's Roxana, Henry Fielding's Tom Jones, and travel journals about the voyages of Captain Cook to the South Seas. Throughout, Rosenthal considers representations of the prostitute's own sexuality (desire, revulsion, etc.) to be key parts of the changing meaning of "the oldest profession." |
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