The paper studies a mean-variance capital asset pricing model CAPM in which investors have different probability beliefs about assets returns and different attitudes towards risk, all assets are risky, short-selling is allowed and satiation is possible. First, it proves that there exists a competitive equilibrium in the model under a...
This paper characterizes the forces that determine time-variation in expected international asset returns. It offers a number of innovations. By using the latent factor technique, we do not have to pre-specify the sources of risk. It solves for the latent premiums and characterizes their time-variation. It finds evidence that the...
BEIJING, May 27 Kyodo South Korean President Lee Myung Bak arrived in Beijing for a four-day state visit Tuesday, China's official media reported. Lee is scheduled to meet with President Hu Jintao later in the day. In summit talks, Lee will discuss with Hu...
Elliptic, hyperbolic and mixed complex equations with parabolic degeneracy; including Tricomi-Bers and Tricomi-Frankl-Rassias problems. Wen, Guo Chun. World Scientific 2008 439 pages $102.00 Paperback Peking University series mathematics; v.4 QC780 Although mathematicians...
Real Nursing English RNE--A Western Healthcare Language and Communication Guide for Chinese Nurses by Craig Louey, Peking University Medical Press (available in Australia through Interculture Connect Pty. Ltd.), RRP $25.00 (+ postage and handling): ISBN 978-7-81071-771-7 [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Real Nursing English is the first book written...
TOKYO, May 22 Kyodo China will face difficulties in tackling rising inflationary pressures if it lets the yuan appreciate further against other major currencies, as such a move would hurt exporters and increase the number of unemployed people, a Chinese professor said Thursday. ...
TOKYO, May 22 Kyodo China will face difficulties in tackling rising inflationary pressures if it lets the yuan appreciate further against other major currencies, as such a move would hurt exporters and increase the number of unemployed people, a Chinese professor said Thursday. ...
BEIJING AFP — Russia's new President Dmitry Medvedev, winding up his first foreign trip, said Saturday the world could not ignore the joint voice of his country and China, and rejected criticism of the alliance. Medvedev said it was symbolic that he picked China as his first destination...
Book and University Courses Will Enable Broad Adoption of Aggressive Power Management Techniques in China BEIJING, May 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Peking University Press today announced that it will publish the Chinese-language edition of the "Low Power Methodology Manual" LPMM, the ARM- and Synopsys-authored practical guide to aggressive...
The anti-clotting drug cilostazol is as good as aspirin at preventing recurrent stroke and it causes less bleeding in the brain, a study by researchers at Peking University First Hospital in Beijing shows. The trial included 360 patients stroke patients who took cilostazol for 12 to 18 months and 359...
BEIJING, April 9 Kyodo (EDS: CHANGING DATELINE, ADDING DETAILS) Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd used his first day in China on Wednesday to deliver a blunt message, calling human rights problems in Tibet significant and of concern to Australians. In a speech...
BOSTON -- Clinical Research Consulting, Inc., a contract research organization CRO specializing in clinical monitoring, project management, education and training, announced today that it has completed training for investigators involved in an investigator-sponsored study led by Duke University in conjunction with the Beijing Cancer Hospital and Peking University. Six investigators...
M2 PRESSWIRE-17 March 2008-CME: CME Chairman Emeritus Melamed Appointed Special Financial Advisor to City of Guangzhou, China Provides Keynote at Peking University's Financial Derivatives Innovation ConferenceC1994-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:14032008 CHICAGO, -- CME Group, the world's largest and most...
BEIJING, Feb. 29 Kyodo Britain's Foreign Secretary David Miliband on Friday told China not to believe that film director Steven Spielberg quitting the Olympics will wreck the event, but he urged its government to do more to improve the country's human rights record. ...
M2 PRESSWIRE-5 February 2008-WORLD BANK GROUP: World Bank Appoints New Chief EconomistC1994-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:04022008 WASHINGTON -- World Bank Group President, Robert B. Zoellick, today announced the appointment of Justin Lin as the new Chief Economist and Senior...
WASHINGTON AFP — The World Bank has named Justin Lin Yifu, who defected from Taiwan and rose to become a top economic strategist for communist China, its chief economist -- the first time a Chinese has held the job. World Bank President Robert Zoellick said Lin, the founding...
AsiaInfo Services01-21-2008Justin Lin May Serve as World Bank Senior Vice PresidentBEIJIN, Jan 21, 2008 SinoCast via COMTEX -- Justin Lin, director of China Center for Economic ResearchCCER, Peking University, may be appointed as the Senior Vice-President and Chief Economist for the World Bank Group, disclosed person familiar with the matter.Lin...
PHILADELPHIA and LONDON, January 17 /PRNewswire/ -- - Leading Research University is First in China to Purchase 100 Years of Web Of Science Comprehensive Backfile and Cited Reference Data Thomson Scientific, part of The Thomson Corporation (NYSE: TOC; TSX:...
Traffic-control measures can significantly reduce urban air pollution, a field study done in Beijing this summer indicates. Beijing, a city of 15 million people and 3 million cars, has notoriously bad air, and it's getting worse, says Tong Zhu, an atmospheric chemist at Peking University in Beijing. To...
