This paper provides evidence on how executive compensation relates to firm performance in listed firms in China. Using … comprehensive financial and accounting data on China's listed firms from 1998 to 2002, augmented by unique data on executive … cash compensation (salary and bonus) for top executives with respect to shareholder value in China. In addition, sales …

Using comprehensive financial and accounting data on China's listed firms from 1998 to 2002, augmented by unique data … listing suspension mechanism, i.e., the ST designation, adopted by China's securities regulatory agency appears to be … literature on economic transition, our findings suggest that any fundamental improvement in China's corporate governance will …

model incorporating England's and China's distinct pre-modern risk-sharing institutions. The model predicts a transition in … England and not China even with equal levels of risk sharing. Under the clan-based Chinese institution, the relatively risk …We analyze the role of risk-sharing institutions in transitions to modern economies. Transitions requires individual …

China's household saving rate has increased markedly since the mid-1990s and the agesaving profile has become U … households, respectively, to raise their saving rates. These two factors account for over half of the increase in China's urban … household savings rate and the U-shaped age-profile of savings. -- China ; household savings ; income uncertainty ; pension …

Using a field experiment in China, we study whether migration status is correlated with attitudes toward risk … from non-migrants in risk and ambiguity preferences elicited using pairs of lotteries; however, migrants are significantly … competitive environment than by risk attitudes under state uncertainty. …

occurred largely in May 1989 in Beijing, China. Using monthly micro panel data, we present evidence that a surge in political … uncertainty resulted in significant temporary increases in savings among urban households in China. Households responded mainly by …

Migration of any distance separates family members for long periods of time. In China, an institutional legacy … living alone without any adult children in the village are most at risk of negative consequences of migration, while those …

vividly illustrated. This paper investigates how changes in trade linkages between China, Latin America, and the rest of the … world shows that the long-term impact of a China GDP shock on the typical Latin American economy has increased by three … to Latin America and the rest of emerging Asia (excluding China and India) GDP has not undergone any significant change …