The North Korean nuclear issue has received a great deal of international attention, especially in the context of the role that China can play in diffusing the crisis. China's role in the six-party talks has been grossly overstated or misunderstood. To have a realistic assessment, one needs to...

China, the European Union and Global Governance examines the key determinants of European and Chinese approaches to the restructuring of global governance systems.

In this paper we want to analyze the internal divisional structure within an organi-zation in the framework of incomplete contract theory. We use the framework of Aghionand Tirole (1997) and define the managerial control structure as \sequence of search".A key feature of this paper which...

This thesis intends to add empirical evidence to a recently heavily debated regulatory issue, the necessity of promoting a clean surplus income statement. I document the magnitude, and assess the relevance of dirty surplus accounting flows in European member states. In particular, this thesis...

Recently the Dutch financial reporting standard setters have taken steps to make dirty surplus accounting flows more visible to parties outside firms, either by eliminating their possibility or by requiring comprehensive income type statements. These steps are presumably based on the idea that...

Widespread researches and studies on earthquake prediction show that seismo-ionospheric disturbances can be observed over seismic regions before an earthquake. However, it is still hard to detect accurate pre-seismic ionosphere anomaly and use them to predict earthquake. To solve the problem, we...

This paper analyzes the internal divisional structure within an organization in the framework of incomplete contract theory. We use the framework of Aghion and Tirole (1997) and dene the managerial control structure as \sequence of search". A key feature of this paper which di erentiate it from...