global REIT investment market; particularly focusing on Islamic REITs in Malaysia. This issue is important as REITs have … regulation and finance. Overall, further research is clearly needed to further expand the understanding of REITs in Malaysia …

privatization, competition and foreign investment. We also test hypotheses positing that only firms near the efficiency frontier … catching up to the (world) efficiency standard given by foreign-owned firms; and the distance of the Russian firms to the … efficiency frontier is much larger than that of the Czech firms and continued to grow for most firms beyond 1997 while remaining …

and Russia, have not been converging to the technological frontier set by foreign owned firms. In both countries, the … distance of domestic firms to the frontier grew (in all parts of the distribution) from 1992-1994 to 1995-1997 and did not … change from 1995-1997 to 1998-2000. However, the distance to the frontier is orders of magnitude greater in Russia than in …

privatization, competition and foreign investment. We also test hypotheses positing that only firms near the efficiency frontier … catching up to the (world) efficiency standard given by foreign-owned firms; and the distance of the Russian firms to the … efficiency frontier is much larger than that of the Czech firms and continued to growfor most firms beyond 1997 while remaining …

frontier in two economies that represent alternative models of implementing market-oriented development policies: the Czech … did not; domestic firms are not catching up to the (world) efficiency standard given by foreign-owned firms. This is due … firms are also contributing to the gap. Domestic firms closer to the frontier are not more likely to catch up than firms …

Skill and risk taking are argued to be independent and to require different remedial programs. However, it is possible … to contend that skill-based training could be associated with an increase, a decrease, or no change in fisk …-taking behavior. In 3 experiments, the authors examined the influence of a skill-based training program (hazard perception) on the …

features of the forecast distribution relative to the reference distribution. The relationship of 13 published accuracy/skill …

My thesis explores the following question: how workers of different skill are allocated across jobs and unemployment … the skill mismatch that takes the form of high-skilled workers transitorily accepting low-skill jobs, thereby influencing … heterogeneous workers and jobs, which helps understand the role of over-qualification on labor productivity and across-skill …