China's steel industry has grown rapidly in recent decades, with China now the world's largest producer and consumer of steel. This has resulted in a sharp increase in demand for iron ore and coal, Australia's two largest exports, which are key inputs for the steelmaking process. This article...

There are increasing studies that address the skill upgrading in developing countries. If the theoretical analyses yield different results about the factors of skill upgrading, the issue is mainly empirical questions. This paper contributes and adds to the growing literature on labor market by...

The inflation rate in Japan has been decreasing since the beginning of the 1990s. Although weak domestic demand most probably explains a large part of the story of this deflationary trend, external factors such as the recent increase in the number of cheap imported goods, have played an...

The research questions that are solved in this paper are as follows: (1) how the value relevance of accounting information evolved from a developing country perspective and (2) how the accounting reform impacts on value relevance. This study aims to assess the value relevance of accounting...

This supporting material for An Indicator for Ecosystem Externalities in Fishing provides the estimations of the cost model parameters, establishes a price model, performs sensitivity analyses of the cost model parameters and analyzes sensitivity with respect to the control variable.

Purpose This paper aims to identify a wide array of utility-based attributes of Airbnb listings and measures the effects of these attributes on consumers’ valuation of Airbnb listings. Design/methodology/approach A hedonic price model was developed to test the effects of a group of...