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There is growing evidence in the finance literature that media coverage can influence security pricing by facilitating … the role of media coverage in the well-known foreign share discount puzzle in China. We show that differential level of … news coverage for the same firm by Chinese and English media is significantly associated with the foreign share discount …
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competition into the media market; conglomeration subsequently re-organized business and official newspapers from the same locale …
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This paper provides new evidence of how political regimes and social connections determine participation in pilot experiments. Using data from China's national pilot experiments of New Rural Pension Scheme (NRPS), we show that county-level charac- teristics and political regime have explanation...
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The aim of this paper is to analyse options for reforming the fragmented Chinese pension system that covers only 55 % of urban employees and a very small part of the rural population. After a brief history of pensions in China we present recent reform proposals and then discuss principles of...
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Have recent trends in globalization changed the positive link between trade openness and social insurance? The … globalization that captures the conventional view, but also shows when it will be modified: When the income effect is negative, the …
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Have recent trends in globalization changed the positive link between trade openness and social insurance? The … globalization that captures the conventional view, but also shows when it will be modified: When the income effect is negative, the …
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This paper analyses past developments and future challenges of welfare state systems in Japan and China, comparing the two countries history in constructing and adapting their welfare state systems. The paper uses the concept of welfare state systems to better reflect particularistic features of...
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This study examines the nature and variations of welfare state systems in Northeast Asia, taking the examples of Japan, South Korea and Mainland China. While parting from the very popular and dominating classification of welfare states of Esping-Andersen, this article proposes the existence of...
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