Gender Gap in Asset Ownership: Tanzania State of Play.

Asset ownership along gender lines: evidence from Thailand

Renegotiation of Asset Ownership

Asset reallocation is often observed in disintegration, divestures, and dissolution of business firms. Yet the property right theory of the firm assumes that asset ownership cannot be renegotiated when business relationships are severed. This paper shows that this assumption is quite innocuous: allowing renegotiation of asset ownership has essentially no effects on the

Brain Activity in Fairness Consideration during Asset Distribution: Does the Initial Ownership Play a Role?

Previous behavioral studies have shown that initial ownership influences individuals' fairness consideration and other-regarding behavior. However, it is not entirely clear whether initial ownership influences the brain activity when a recipient evaluates the fairness of asset distribution. In this study, we randomly assigned the bargaining property (monetary reward) to either the allocator or ...

Endogenous Asset Ownership Structures in Deregulated Markets

This paper determines the equilibrium ownership structure in an emerging market deregulated by privatization and investment liberalization. It is shown that bidding competition in the privatization stage is necessary but not sufficient for reaching an efficient equilibrium market structure. Competition in the ensuing entry stage is also necessary. Otherwise, one firm can induce another to take ...

Gender Gap in Aptitude Test of Iranian EFL learners

The present study was carried out with the aim of finding gender gap in a recent aptitude test, the Cognitive Ability for Novelty in Acquisition of Language (CANAL-FT) as applied to foreign language test designed by Grigorenko et al. (2002).  For the purposes of this research, 126 undergraduate students (95 females and 31 males) all majoring in English at Shiraz Azad University participated in ...