This research starts with the assumption that, in Taiwanese companies listed as "Emerging," earnings are manipulated to surpass a cognitive reference point denoted by ¡uN*10k¡v, as has been documented by Carslaw (1988) and Thomas (1989). This paper investigates whether similar manipulation...

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the impact of corporate governance on technical efficiency. We use the Translog stochastic production function to derive technical efficiency. Four empirical results are observed: (1) Technical efficiency has a negative relationship with the following two...