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Social Capital Renewal And The Academic Performance Of International Students In Australia, Frank V. Neri, Simon Ville
Social Capital Renewal And The Academic Performance Of International Students In Australia, Frank V. Neri, Simon Ville
Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive)
Many believe that social capital fosters the accumulation of human capital. Yet international university students arrive in their host country generally denuded of social capital and confronted by unfamiliar cultural and educational institutions. This study investigates how, and to what extent, international students renew their social networks, and whether such investments are positively associated with academic performance. We adopt a social capital framework and conduct a survey of international students at a typical Australian university in order to categorise and measure investments in social capital renewal, and test a multivariate model of academic performance that includes social capital variables, amongst …
Identifying The Pattern Of International Stock Return Co-Movements, Abbas Valadkhani, Surachai Chancharat, Charles Harvie
Identifying The Pattern Of International Stock Return Co-Movements, Abbas Valadkhani, Surachai Chancharat, Charles Harvie
Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive)
This paper investigates the relationships between stock market returns of 13 countries based upon monthly data spanning December 1987 to April 2007. SpecifIcally, the principal component (PC) and maximum likelihood (ML) methods are used to examine any discernable patterns of stock market co-movements. Factor analysis provides evidence that stock returns in a number of Asian countries are highly correlated and, based on the resulting robust frictor loadings, they fbrm the first well-defined common factor. We also find consistent results (bused on both the PC and ML methods,) suggesting that the stock returns of all global developed economy stock markets are …
Southeast Asian International Firms And Their Strategies, Ah Ba Sim
Southeast Asian International Firms And Their Strategies, Ah Ba Sim
Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive)
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