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Models of development: A comparative study of economic growth in South Korea and Taiwan - A review
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Measuring the productive efficiency of a group of firms
While the conventional Farrell-Färe approach to efficiency measurement can identify the most inefficient firms, it fails to consider the efficiency of a group of firms thoroughly. This paper introduces efficie...
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Financial reforms and regional investment conflicts in China: A game-theoretic analysis
In the transition from a command to a market economy, macroeconomic stabilization poses a grave problem facing the reform governments. A distinct feature of China's economic fluctuations in the post-1979 perio...
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Gender and race as factors in health care utilization
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Testing the Neoclassical Theory of Economic Growth: Evidence from Chinese Provinces
There has been renewed empirical work recently on testing the neoclassical model of economic growth using data on various groups of countries. But none of the cross-country regressions includes China, the larg...
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Industrialisation and the Sustainability of China’s Agriculture*
The paper argues that the sustainable development of Chinese agriculture is constrained by the continuing adverse effects of the policy of industrialisation. This has resulted principally in an excessive loss ...
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The elasticity of demand for oil and world market prices
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Gray marketing and unfair competition
With the European Court of Justice's (ECJ) relaxation of the definitions of cartels, price controls, and market manipulation in July 1998, the Court effectively banned the import of gray goods into the EU. Thi...
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The Puzzle of Firm Performance in China: An Institutional Explanation
China has achieved phenomenal economic growth in an institutional environment that defies conventional economic rationales. Researchers offer different theories to explain this puzzle. But so far, due to the l...
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Trade Liberalization and Real Exchange Rate Movement
Although theory suggests that the real exchange rate should depreciate after a permanent trade liberalization but could appreciate temporarily with a transitory one, little empirical evidence exists. Unlike ex...
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Testing the role of country of origin in consumer adoption of new products
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Consumer Risk Perception, Addictive Behavior, and the Purchasing Decision
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Reforming China's SOEs: An Overview
After three decades of reform, state ownership still plays a significant if diminishing role in China's industrial sector. We survey studies that focus on the impact of reform on China's SOEs both during the e...
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Gray Marketing: Does It Hurt the Manufacturers?
It is generally believed that the existence of gray channels hurts authorized retailers because gray marketers often free-ride on the marketing activities performed by authorized retailers. However, the effect...
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Determinants of turnover intentions among Chinese off farm migrants
This study examines the determinants of turnover intentions of off farm migrant workers, using data collected from China’s Jiangsu Province. Turnover intention is posited to be a function of demographic/human ...
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Costs and Benefits of Relational Contracting in China’s Transition
This paper is an attempt to account for the social foundations of China’s economic transition from central planning to a market economy which is a process of the completion and perfection of markets. In the ea...
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The size of the SOE sector and macroeconomic performance: an empirical study based on Chinese provincial data
Using a neoclassical growth model augmented with human capital, we investigate the impact of the presence of state owned enterprises (SOEs) on macroeconomic performance in China, using provincial data from 199...
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Tax Deductions for Losses and Equilibrium in Competitive Insurance Markets
This paper examines how tax deductions related to uninsured personal losses may be Pareto-improving if there are inefficiencies in insurance markets in the context of adverse selection by including individuals...
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Regional Protection and Development as an Exchange Model: To Create a Balance between Eco-Protection and Poverty-Elimination in Eco-protected Areas
Eco-protection and poverty elimination has always been the unsolved problem in many countries and regions; especially for those less-developed ecological protected areas who have to pay extra attention to coor...
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Education Assistance to Africa: We Can Do More and Better
Based on the problems of Global Education Assistance to Africa (GEAA), and combined with China’s rationale and practice of Education Assistance to Africa, this paper proposes a vision and assumption to improve...