This paper investigates the degree of risk sharing across households in China with heterogeneous risk and time preferences from the late 1990s to early 2010s. Standard tests assume homogeneous preferences across households, which may bias the true risk sharing degree if, in reality, preferences...

Literature on how regional integration within a country affects corporate innovation is limited. This study proposes a dynamic mechanism for integration of the Yangtze River Delta (YRD) to promote corporate innovation based on the peer effect among enterprises. It constructs a panel regression...

The size effect can be attributed to the relative importance of growth options versus assets-in-place in total assets. By incorporating the changing trend of growth options over firm lifecycle into the dynamic investment model developed by Berk et al. (1999), this paper demonstrates that the...

In this study, we present a strategic change theoretical model and empirically validate it in the context of inter-governmental organizations. We followed a survey methodology approach and tested our model hypotheses using exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis. Traditional strategic...