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...

Duality theory is utilized to develop a translog profit function (TPF) which includes one output (hog), three variable inputs (labour, fodder, and piglet), four fixed inputs (capital, farm size, location, and pollution cost). Based on the trade theory for small country, the factors of corn and...

The objective of this paper is to investigate the Granger 'causal' dynamic relationship between Taiwan-Japan trade balance (T), and four macrovariables: output (Y), exchange rate (E), money supply (M), and price index (P). The ADF Unit Root Test results show that the variables are all integrated...

This article examines, from a unique sample of once-oligopolized 'Top 10 Banks' in Taiwan between 1981 and 2001, the dynamic effect of cost-side efficiency structure and revenue-side market structure on performance gauged by the Return on Asset (ROA) and the Return on Equity (ROE). Financial...

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the impact of corporate governance on technical efficiency. We use the Translog stochastic production function to derive technical efficiency. Four empirical results are observed: (1) Technical efficiency has a negative relationship with the following two...

This paper examines the influence of investments in China and brand-developing potential on operating performances (technical efficiency, return on assets, and Tobin's Q) with data drawn from samples of listed information-electronics industry firms in Taiwan between 1999 and 2003. We first apply...

This paper applies data envelopment analysis (DEA) to measure the performance of Taiwan domestic equity funds during the period 1999 to 2003. To test performance persistence, we first divide the sample funds into low efficiency (0--25th percentile), middle efficiency (26th--75th percentile), and...

Is a customer’s past purchase experience of traditional banking products applicable to the continuing purchase of insurance and investment products at a bank branch? Are service attributes used with similar extensions evaluated differently from when used with dissimilar extensions? In response...