Coal use accounts for a very large proportion of electricity production in China. Using a recently developed coarsened exact matching (CEM) technique, this paper examines the impact of research and development (R&D) activities on the performance of firms in China's coal mining industry. Our...

Economic reforms of the late 1980s have contributed to rapid economic growth in China. While the overall standard of living has improved, economic growth has also resulted in an increase in income inequality. Rising income inequality can increase social tensions that can impede further economic...

By making use of the bank-based theory of financial development, this paper develops a simultaneous equations model that allows one to empirically examine the interrelationship among economic growth, the stock of foreign investment and the stock of domestic capital in Malaysia. The empirical...

Within the context of a tri-variate vector autoregressive framework that includes entrepreneurship, this paper examines the link between electricity consumption and industrial production in Singapore's manufacturing sector. Unlike the existing studies, this paper focuses on one sector of the...

Coal use accounts for a very large proportion of electricity production in China. Using a recently developed coarsened exact matching (CEM) technique, this paper examines the impact of research and development (R&D) activities on the performance of firms in China's coal mining industry. Our...

Using a simple theoretical model, this paper argues that an increase in foreign presence, which refers to the level of foreign investment in a given domestic firm, can affect the leverage of domestic firms. We apply the model to explore the link between foreign presence and leverage with firm...

<Para ID="Par1">Using firm level data, this paper examines the link between unionisation and firm performance in China’s manufacturing industries. The empirical results suggest that unionisation has not greatly benefitted workers in China’s textile industry but it has contributed to much larger increase in...</para>