This study empirically examines the effect of a non-traditional information source, namely a firm's blog visibility on the capital market valuation of firms. After controlling for earnings, book value of equity and other value relevant variables, such as traditional media exposure, R&D spending,...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to propose and evaluate a new matching sample comparison method, the industry size peer matching method. Design/methodology/approach – Based on archival financial data from Compustat and econometric methods, the paper first validates that such a method...

Support Vector Machines (SVMs) have become a very popular technique in the machinelearningfield for classification problems. It was originally proposed for classification of twoclasses. Various multiclass models with a single objective have been proposed mostly based ontwo families of methods:...

China has implemented comprehensive industrial policies that originally had their origins in the command economy. It is argued in this case study that one characteristic of industrial policies in China involves government intervention at all levels, namely central, provincial, municipal, county,...

There has been a marked growth in recent years in outward direct investment (ODI) by developing countries, and in particular, by China. Previous studies have examined the impact on developing countries productivity of foreign direct investment (FDI) from developed countries. This paper looks at...

Studies of corruption and its relationship with foreign direct investment (FDI) have yielded mixed results; some have found that corruption deters FDI but others have found the opposite. This paper replicates earlier studies within the OLI paradigm, but also seeks to advance our understanding of...

Modeling the relationship between multiple financial markets has had a great deal of attention in both literature and real-life applications. One state-of-the-art technique is that the individual financial market is modeled by generalized autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity (GARCH)...

Purpose – This study aims to examine the effects of balanced scorecard (BSC) usage on performances in the context of four contingent variables in Singaporean manufacturing firms. The results show that firms are more likely to adopt BSC if they are large in size, have products at an early...

We take the papers, on performance appraisal of land consolidation (including land consolidation benefits, etc.) published in the core journals in the Chinese Journal Full-text Database, as the study samples; conduct analysis in terms of the number of papers, the paper source journals, the...

The proportional odds model may serve as a useful alternative to the Cox proportional hazards model to study association between covariates and their survival functions in medical studies. In this article, we study an extended proportional odds model that incorporates the so-called...