In this paper we assess the impact of foreign MNEs on China’s rapidly rising export sophistication during 1998-2005. We use a measure of export sophistication newly developed in the literature, and distinguish MNEs between wholly foreign owned enterprises (WFOEs) and joint ventures (JVs), and between MNEs from OECD and from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan (HMT). We test several hypotheses based on ...

Experimental social scientists working at research-intensive institutions deal inevitably with subjects who have most likely participated in previous experiments. It is an important methodological question to know whether participants that acquired a high level of lab-sophistication show altered pro-social behavioural patterns. In this paper, we focus both on the potential effect subjects’ lab-...

The financial crisis has brought a new focus on the accuracy of credit rating agencies (CRAs). In this paper, we highlight the incentives of analysts at the CRAs to provide accurate ratings. We construct a model in which analysts initially work at a CRA and can then either remain or move to a bank. The CRA uses incentive contracts to motivate analysts, but does not capture the benefits if the a...

Multi-party business applications are computer programs distributed over the Web implementing collaborative business functions. These applications are one of the main target of attackers who exploit vulnerabilities in order to perform malicious activities. The most prevalent classes of vulnerabilities are the consequence of insufficient validation of the user-provided input. However, the less-k...

Despite the popularity of environmental management accounting as an approach to support corporate cleaner production measures, so far, how implementation differs according stage strategy development is largely unknown. This study thus sought identify uses and information characteristics vary among organizations at different stages development. Drawing on contingency theory view system sophistic...

This paper introduces a general framework for dealing with dynamic inconsistency in the context of Markov decision problems. It carefully decouples and examines concepts that are often entwined in the literature: it distinguishes between the decision maker and its various temporal agents, and between the beliefs and intentions of the agents. Classical examples on naive and sophisticated decisio...

Article history: Received 7 March 2008 Received in revised form 19 April 2010 Accepted 19 April 2010 Recent studies have found that China is “special” in exporting highly sophisticated goods not comparable with its income level. In this paper we identify two measurement biases that account for this “China is special” observation. First, product quality has not been fully considered in the measu...

Abstract Despite the dearth of research on innovation, key determinants innovation performance still need to be clarified. Besides, a comparative analysis across countries at different income levels has yet found. This study, therefore, aims bridge this gap by considering 63 countries. Participating were purposefully selected from Global Innovation Index (GII) dataset. Multistage and multimodal...