There is little empirical research on how the Chinese Government should function in innovation management, particularly during its critical period of economic transition. This study explores and investigates the Chinese Government’s innovation management structure, procedures and functions by...

An important puzzle in international macroeconomics is the exchange rate disconnect puzzle. Based on recent empirical literature by Mussa (1986), Baxter and Stockman (1989), and Flood and Rose (1995), high exchange rate volatility under floating rates appear not to be related to the high...

The Australian Trade Deficit (TD) has been increasing in the past 50 years, and this deficit has become more significant in the last few decades. This rising TD level in Australia has brought the national debt level to a new height, making this country one of the world?s highest debt-ridden...

With the rapid development of the global economy, intellectual capital has become a critical driver of a business's sustainability. The essential difference between companies operating in the 'old' and the 'new' economy is that, where value in the past was created within industrial sectors such...

Over the last two decades, globalisation has led to the rapidly increasing growth of foreign direct investment (FDI) all over the world. China, one of the largest net importers of FDI in the world, represents a country with a substantial share of foreign ownership whose FDI experience has been...

Trust is frequently a requirement for economic exchanges and the management of natural resources. Providing public informaiton on past actions can promote trust through the formation of reputations. We developed an economic experiment to test whether a formal reputation mechanism could...

Part I: Theoretical foundations of bargaining research -- Chapter 1: Field Experiments in Bargaining -- Chapter 2: Commitment Tactics in Bargaining -- Chapter 3: The Role of Emotions in Bargaining -- Chapter 4: New Empirical Perspectives on Bargaining -- Chapter 5: Reputational Bargaining --...

While historians of economics have noted the transition toward empirical work in economics since the 1970s, less understood is the shift toward "quasi-experimental" methods in applied microeconomics. Angrist and Pischke (2010) trumpet the wide application of these methods as a "credibility...

Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 China’s Economic Transformation -- Chapter 3 Chinese Business Groups: Concepts -- Chapter 4 Chinese Business Groups: Behaviors of Growth and Restructuring -- Chapter 5 Chinese Business Groups: Interpretation of the Strategic Behaviors -- Chapter 6 Chinese...

Theory of China’s Industrial Competitiveness -- Research on China’s Industrial Competitiveness -- Research on China's Industrial Cluster Competitiveness -- Analysis of China’s Input-Output International Competitiveness -- Research on Soft International Competitiveness of China's Enterprise...