ownership-legal form categories of firms. By using a large panel of quarterly observations, we eliminate biases introduced by …

financial incentives: over time and by system size, component, state, system ownership type (customer-owned vs. third party …

The minimum energy efficiency standards program for household appliances in China was initiated in 1989. Since 1996 …, CLASP and its implementing partner, LBNL, have assisted China in developing 11 minimum energy performance standards (MEPS … (under development). Before 2003, China's traditional approach to standards development involved small increases in …

set of formal and informal market-regulating and market-stabilising institutions. The following positive institutional …

In this paper, we analyze the reason behind the use of foreign ownership restrictions on inward Foreign Direct … effect of the host government's welfare preference on the optimal foreign ownership restriction. Since the analytical … economic factors but also political factors play an important role in the determination of the foreign ownership restrictions. …

This paper examines host governments' motivation for restricting ownership shares of multinational firms(MNFs) in … firm-specific advantage. In contrast, a joint venture (JV) partner might observe this surplus depending on its ownership … share. The host government can alleviate its informational constraints by using ownership restrictions to force a JV. This …

This study investigates whether managerial share ownership serves to enhance or detract from firm performance in listed … companies in Thailand. The convergence-of-interest hypothesis asserts that firm value increases as management ownership rises … hypothesis, which suggests the excessive insider ownership has negative impact on corporate performance. The results of this …

This presentation uses a vehicle simulator and economics model called the Battery Ownership Model to examine the …

Because the Mexican government has encouraged investment in Mexico by increasing the percentage of ownership of a …