This thesis introduces the "buyer power" model, probes into the influence on the chain relationship of the growth and decline of power between the headquarters and chain stores, and further overthrows the traditional literature's argument on the cause of exclusive dealing. First, this paper...

The basic tenet of public choice is to study political behavior and institutions from the viewpoint of rational choice. This paper provides an introduction to the field of public choice on the basis of five classical works.

This paper sets up a small open stochastic endogenous growth model to analyze the impact of foreign military threats on the home long-run economic growth rate and welfare. We prove that, in addition to the intertemporal substitution elasticity in consumption, whether the home country is a net...

This paper examines the recent interactive relationships between the crude oil prices and stock performances of alternative energy companies. The examination was conducted from 2001 to mid-2010, and the sample period is divided into three sub-periods according to two Middle East wars. Different...

This paper examines fiscal sustainability in fifteen European countries. Motivated by the statistical power of the advances in panel unit root tests, we apply these new tools to test whether or not the fiscal imbalance is sustainable in the long run. We also employ the exponential smoothing...

Credit unions were established in Taiwan over 40 years ago, and their members now number more than two hundred thousand. This study cites the Technology Acceptance Model by Davis (1989) in its discussion of the internet purchase intentions of Credit Union members in Taiwan. Structural equation...

This study uses the unexpected stock return as the threshold variable to proxy for the business cycle and construct the threshold vector error correction model (TVECM) to examine whether an asymmetric causal relationship exists between the housing return and four macroeconomic variables, namely,...

Based on the banking data of six Asian emerging market countries from 2007 to 2008, this paper analyzes the differences in financial performance between foreign banks and domestic banks. By applying Rubin's (1973, 1977) matching theory and the propensity score matching of Rosenbaum and Rubin...

Once a national sport, baseball in Taiwan has been devalued with repeated cheating in local games and underperformance in international tournaments. Although some attribute its demise to the compensation structure, there does not seem to be any empirical assessment of whether Taiwan's baseball...