In China, health care providers have traditionally been paid fee-for-service and overprescribing and high out-of-pocket spending are common. In this study, township health centers in two counties were assigned almost randomly to two groups: in one, fee-for-service was replaced by a global...

This article uses multivariate regression and decomposition analyses to assess household income mobility determinants and their contributions to income mobility in rural China from 1989 to 2006. The findings indicate that households with lower initial income level, higher share of wage income,...

Risk-neutral (RN) and real-world (RW) densities are derived from option prices and risk assumptions, and are compared with historical densities obtained from time series. Two parametric methods that adjust from RN to RW densities are developed, firstly a CRRA risk aversion transformation and...

Purpose This paper aims to provide a transaction cost analysis (TCA) perspective to exporting firms' selection of foreign markets and the performance consequences of this international market selection (IMS) decision. This paper proposes a conceptual framework that hypothesizes the relationship...

Purpose: This paper examines the role of language in foreign subsidiary performance. Design/methodology/approach: We develop hypotheses relating to the effects of language difference and its interplay with cultural distance and market size. Considering languages that can be directly used and...