In the past China's rural areas, home to 70% of its population, suffered energy shortages.China's indigenous energy … transport -making it costly-, and degrades the environment.As a result the Chinese government has implemented an energy policy … that aims at the use of renewable energy resources and increasing energy efficiency.For this the Chinese government has …

We study the in uence of energy endowments on the location of energy-intensive industries. We use data on manufacturing … hydropower and sectoral fuel and electricity intensities. The effect of energy on industry location is statistically and … economically significant. A one standard deviation increase in energy en- dowments per capita increases the activity of energy …

There is now extensive empirical evidence showing that fund managers have relative performance objectives and adapt … their investment strategy in the last part of the calendar year to their performance in the early part of the year. However …

fund performance in the first semester of a year influences risk-taking in the second semester.However, we show that …

This paper investigates the impact of perceived organizational support (POS) on performance.We predict that POS will be … reciprocated by positive discretionary employee behavior, which in turn has a positive impact on performance.Empirical research on … a sample of Dutch construction companies indeed corroborates a positive relationship between POS and performance …

Abstract: Economics seems largely based on the assumption that monetary incentives improve performance. By contrast, a … present and discuss a set of experiments designed to test the effect of different monetary compensations on performance. In … our experiments we find that whenever money is offered, a larger amount yields a higher performance. It is not true …

We test whether the frequency of feedback information about the performance of an investment portfolio and the …

impact of past performance on flows.We model the flow-performance relationship at the monthly frequency, allowing for … dependence of the sensitivity of flows to past performance on size and age of the fund.The dynamics of the impact of past … performance is modelled using polynomial lag structures.Performance from 6 to 8 months ago seems to have thestrongest impact on …