This article presents two propositions on the role of FDI in economic growth: (1) FDI is a mover of production efficiency and (2) FDI is a shifter of the host country's production frontier. It then employs a production function with a large panel data set from the Chinese regions over 1979-2003...

The timeliness of annual reports has received serious attention by the Chinese regulatory and professional bodies in recent years. Using 8294 company reports from the Chinese listed companies during 1993-2003, this paper analyzes the timeliness of annual reports by first examining the trend of...

Using a broad dataset of individual consolidated data of French banks over the period 1993-2007, we seek to evaluate the sensitivity to adverse macroeconomic scenarios of the three main sources of banking income, namely interest margins, fees and commissions, and trading income. First, we show...

We build a stress testing framework to evaluate the sensitivity of banks’ profitability to plausible but severe adverse macroeconomic shocks. Specifically, we test the resilience of French banks using supervisory data over the period 1993-2009. First, we identify the macroeconomic and...

In this paper, we discuss interval estimation for the common mean of several heterogeneous log-normal (LN) populations. The proposed procedure is based on a higher order likelihood method. The merits of our proposed method are numerically compared with other three methods with respect to their...

Recently, various environmental problems have been generated with the rapid economic development in China. That’s because China currently over-emphasized economic development beyond environmental issues; therefore, now it is important to enforce optimal environmental policies in order to...

Increasing scarcity of freshwater resources and growing environmental awareness give rise to the use of reclaimed wastewater as an additional source of water supply. However, the amount of wastewater that can be reclaimed for reuse is subject to many factors, ranging from technical possibility...

Gallium nitride (GaN) nanocrystalline powder has been prepared by sol–gel method. The GaN powder has been confirmed as single-crystalline GaN with wurtzite structure by X-ray diffraction (XRD) and selected-area electron diffraction (SAED), and the diameter of the grains of GaN powder changes...