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In this experimental study, involving subjects from Abu-Dis (West Bank), Chengdu (China), Helsinki (Finland), and …
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Why has the rapid privatization of firms in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union not brought dramatically higher performance as expected? If private ownership were so clearly dominant, why has state control of enterprises been such a common phenomenon historically, even in many Western...
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Using a panel of 65,551 firms over the period 2000-2006, this study examines the capital structure determinants of Chinese privately owned small and medium-sized enterprises. Investment in the building and maintenance of social capital, measured by entertainment expenditure, is found to be...
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-to-face interviews in Beijing, Nanchang, and Guangzhou, China, from representatives who described specific incidents of supply chain …
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Prior research has demonstrated that intercultural negotiations tend to be significantly less successful than intracultural negotiations (Adair, Okumura, & Brett, 2001; Gulbro & Herbig, 1996). The poor negotiating outcomes of international negotiations have been attributed to cultural differences in...
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Frictions in the U.S.-China relationship are nothing new, but they have intensified in recent months. There is angst … among the U.S. public, who frequently hear that China will soon surpass the United States in one economic superlative after … another. Some worry that China's rise will impair America's capacity to fulfill or pursue its traditional geopolitical …
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generated by the Two Control Zone policy in China across cities and across industries, we find evidence that pollution …
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China has led to some cases of localized, concentrated risk, but not to systemic risk. We discuss proposed European shadow … banking regulation and its implications for systemic risk, and discuss what lessons China might glean from such policies. We … also discuss what lessons China's diverse and systemically uncoordinated shadow banking sector might provide for Europe …
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This paper develops a frontier shadow cost function approach to estimate empirically the effects of technological change, technical and allocative efficiency improvement in Chinese agriculture during the reform period (1980-93). The results reveal that the first phase rural reforms (1979-84)...
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Policymakers, industries, commentators and the media have widely criticized China for its failure to adequately protect … intellectual property rights. In recent years, however, the discourse on intellectual property developments in China has slowly … begun to change. Such a change is the most notable in the patent area. Today, China is already among the top five countries …
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