We examine whether allowing publicly listed firms to adopt equity-based compensation increases shareholder value for firms domiciled in weak institutional environments. We test our idea using a series of regulations in China that allowed publicly listed Chinese firms to adopt equity-based...

The urbanization and megalopolis have deteriorated traffic concerns, energy crisis and carbon pollution. In this study, a flexible-possibilist chanced constraints programming (FCCP) model is developed to plan the energy-transportation systems at a metropolitan scale (METS), which have multiple...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to perform an investigative analysis of the distribution of agricultural growth in China and the evolution of the decision mechanism. Design/methodology/approach – The kernel density estimation method was used to investigate the distribution of...