By setting Chinese regional political energy index (PEI) and using DEA-Malmquist to compute regional economic efficiency, we find that PEI has a significantly positive impact on FDI, as well as the more FDI flows into, the higher economic efficiency is

The study examines the relationship between the consequential social cost of market power (i.e. welfare performance of banks) and cost efficiency using data covering the period 2009 to 2017 from the Ghanaian banking industry. The study adopts the Ordinary Least Squares (OLS), Fixed Effect (FE)...

We examine the informational role of governments in the private sector in emerging economies. Using a large sample of private firms, we show that governments’ ability and willingness to collect and disseminate economic information (government transparency) is positively associated with...

The government in emerging economies often moves firstly in issuing regulations to push the firms follow some social commitments. Natural resource-based firms in Indonesia are the first movers to be required for mandatory CSR disclosure. This study explores how the efficiency of those firms was...