... informativeness of the earnings Prior studies have noted the importance of the effects ofearnings credibility Teoh and Wong (1993) report that the market perception of the quality of accounting earnings, ... The structure of a contract and the theory of a non-exclusive resource Journal of Law and Economics 13, 49-70 Cheung, S., 1983 The contractual nature of the firm Journal of Law and Economics ... quarter of the East Asian companies, more than 40% of the voting rights are in the hands of the 11 The two extreme percentiles of firm-year observations of annual stock returns and net earnings...
... likelihood of small earnings increases and negative earnings avoidance Additional evidence was provided by regressions of changes in boards and audit committees on the indicators of poor earnings ... quality Higher earnings quality Higher earnings quality Higher earnings quality Lower earnings quality Higher earnings quality Lower earnings quality Lower earnings quality Lower earnings quality ... the structure and activity of audit committees and the structure of corporate boards relate to the quality ofearnings information produced by firms First, I find that audit committee and board structures...
... stage of development, often measured by per capita income 18 Taxation and Public Finance in Transition andDevelopingEconomies • The existence and extent of “tax handles.” • Efficacy of tax ... impact of the legal system is positive and significant (t = 2.62, p = 0.05) The impact of both Taxation and Public Finance in Transition andDevelopingEconomies control of corruption and bureaucracy ... Taxation and Public Finance in Transition andDevelopingEconomies Taxation and Public Finance in Transition andDevelopingEconomies Edited by Robert W McGee Editor Robert...
... the School of Energy Resources Professor of Energy Economics in the Department of Economics and Finance at the University of Wyoming Dr Considine was formerly a Professor of Natural Resource Economics ... drawn to the adventure of exploring and drilling for natural gas, the real yeoman’s work occurs in the development of a network of thousands of miles of gathering lines and pipelines to carry ... $2.5 billion on lease and bonus and other land payments and the remaining $2.2 billion on equipment and supplies Our analysis of lease acquisition activity indicates that most of Marcellus Prospects...
... putative promoter P1 and P2 regions 5¢ of E1 and E1b, identified by Nusing et al [4], may independently control the expression ¨ of transcripts containing E1 and E1b, respectively Of course, our data ... TI sites clustered at sites within E1 and E1b RESULTS Analysis of 5¢ UTR of TPa and TPb Identification of the major TP mRNA transcripts and determination of their transcription initiation sites ... FEBS 2002 Analysis of the TPa and TPb mRNAs (Eur J Biochem 269) 4067 Fig Functional analysis of the 5¢ flanking regionof the TP receptor gene (A) Schematic of the TP genomic region spanning nucleotides...
... laws of motion, and retains calculation of equilibria and asset prices via simple modifications of our standard formulas These preferences are a version of those studied by Epstein and Zin ( ) and ... selected by specifying a set of matrices A22 , C2 , Ub , and Ud that characterize the motion of information sets andof taste and technology shocks; matrices Φc , Φg , Φi , Γ, ∆k , and Θk that ... depicts the response of current and future values of {xt } to an imposition of a random shock wt In representation ( 2.3.4 ), the impulse response function is given by entries of the vector sequence...
... Catley: Review of “Healing the Herds: Disease, Livestock Economies, and the Globalization of Veterinary Medicine” edited by Karen Brown and Daniel Gilfoyle Pastoralism: Research, Policy and Practice ... pastoralism and often view these areas as problems to be solved by modernization and settlement To some extent, the anti-pastoralist statements of current African policy makers seem even more extreme and ... technologies in general by colonial administrations as a means to exploit resources The crop, forestry, water, fisheries, and other sectors all employed the modern technologies of the day, and if so, veterinary...
... brands Higher FCRs were offset by the lower price of domestic brand feeds The feasibility of establishing a cluster of animal livestock production and livestock feed producers in rural areas by ... movement of goods by 67% of small firms, 33% of medium firms and 75% of large firms Lack of capacity to undertake adequate quality control In the survey of 62 livestock feed mills conducted by CAP ... and relevant Departments of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development and provincial Departments of Agriculture and Rural Development, Vietnam Association of Small and Medium Enterprises...
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... market demand and no external technology collaboration Hence the dynamic process of new industrial evolution in an emergingregion is taken for detailed investigation and forms a part of the main ... transformation and institutional sources of strength 2 1.2.1 Terms and Definitions 1.2.2 Technology Innovation challenges in emergingeconomies 1.2.3 Barriers to Technology adoption diffusion into a emerging ... Learning by doing hypothesis of technological innovation This is because technology is not a plug and play; rather it is acquisition of practical experience and governed by process of cumulative...
... in emergingeconomiesand would not have written this dissertation I would also like to thank Professor Ivan Png, Professor Andrew Delios, and Professor Young-Choon Kim for their comments and ... (Frye and Shleifer, 1997; Shleifer and Vishny, 1993) Despite of the political democratization and economic liberalization in most emerging economies, state actors often control substantial resources ... connected and non-connected firms in their profitability (Fisman, 2001), chance of survival (Faccio, Masulis, and McConnell, 2006), and access to scare resources (Johnson and Mitton, 2003; Khwaja and...