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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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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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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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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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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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Entrepreneurship in the Context of Crisis: Identifying Barriers and Proposing Strategies
The current crisis is considered by many economists to be the severest recession in post-war economic history and it has had great impact on the Spanish economy. Within this context, the entrepreneurs’ role is...
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Accumulation of large foreign reserves in China: a behavioural perspective
The massive accumulation of foreign reserves by China has challenged the conventional thinking about prudent reserve management. This paper develops a behavioural model of optimal decision making under uncerta...
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The Indian Growth Model: A Chinese Perspective
This paper attempts to provide an analysis of the Chinese perspective of the Indian economic growth model. It examines the leading papers and comments, mostly published in the past decade, by eminent Chinese s...
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Perceptions of Czech Professional Accountants on Current Trends in Reporting
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Assessing Interbank Contagion Risk Using Consolidated Data
This study uses the maximum entropy method to estimate bilateral interbank exposure in order to simulate the contagion effect in the UK interbank market using consolidated data. Almost all existing studies use...
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Binary data, hierarchy of attributes, and multidimensional deprivation
Empirical estimation of multidimensional deprivation measures has gained momentum in the last few years. Several existing measures assume that deprivation dimensions are cardinally measurable, when, in many in...
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Bootstrap-calibrated empirical likelihood confidence intervals for the difference between two Gini indexes
Measuring the difference between two Gini indexes is important in comparing the inequality between two groups. This paper systematically provides confidence intervals for this difference. First, normal approxi...
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ASEAN at 50: The Rise of China and the Emerging Regional Integration Architecture
China has had and will continue to have major implications for ASEAN as an entity or for its member countries. “Realist” scholars argue that ASEAN has no role except for what the big powers the United States a...
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Open AccessAccounting for differences in income inequality across countries: tax-benefit policy, labour market structure, returns and demographics
This paper presents a framework for studying international differences in the distribution of household income. Integrating micro-econometric and micro-simulation approaches in a decomposition analysis, it qua...