The paper contributes to techno-economic modelling of CO2 capture process in coalfired power plants. Technological options of CO2 capture have been chosen and cost estimation relationships (CERs) for the chosen options provided. The CERs are being fitted into a developed overall model of carbon capture and sequestration. Functions relating capital costs, operation and maintenance costs and tota...

The number of electricity consuming equipment for existing household end-user is continuing to increase, and some residential buildings already consume more energy than existing building regulations prescribe. The uprising SmartGrid technology with alternative energy sources could be a key to solve this problem, but it is demanding also for a “smarter” consumer with ability to monitor and manag...

Transitions from state socialism generated a startling array of early economic outcomes, ranging from severe economic crises to steady economic growth, and igniting debates about the causal role of policy choices, institutional design, and initial economic circumstances. We depart from prior explanations in two ways. First, we distinguish between causes of initial recessions and causes of varia...

This study empirically investigates the impact of privatisation on firm performance in the global oil and gas industry, where questions of resource control have regained widespread attention. Using a dataset of 60 public share offerings by 28 National Oil Companies it is shown that privatisation is associated with comprehensive and sustained improvements in performance and efficiency. Over the ...

With the growth of capital market, the shareholding structure of companies has become more complex. Direct ownership is easily recognizable through companies’ shareholders information, however with the formation of cross shareholding among companies, a kind of indirect and complex shareholding has emerged which is not observable. The primary owners (original owners) can take over other companie...

Project Summary This proposal builds on an initial round of NSF-sponsored research that has examined the channels through which research and development resources are contributing to technical change in China. Over the period 1995-2003, China raised its R&D/GDP ratio from 0.6 percent to 1.3 percent. This abrupt increase shares features of the historic trajectories of large OECD countries that r...

The continuously increasing gap between silicon and designer productivity has created a need for common design reuse. The initial response to this need emphasized the enforcement of designers’ rights through the creation of design such that ownership can be proved with ultra high probability. Our primary objective is to provide sound treatment of the foundations of hardware watermarking and fin...

This paper is to explore that if ownership structure exactly affects on earnings management, especially on how to constrain executive compensation motivation to earnings management in the emerging market of China. We use five variables to quantify various corporate governance mechanisms including ownership structure and executive compensation for 1024 listed firms sample within two years. We fi...

paper studies the impact of the liquidity, underpricing and ownership up on both the short term and long term performance of the initial public offer (ipo) stocks in the equity markets of india. empirical analysis is undertaken to study the impact of liquidity, underpricing and ownership on performance of ipo stocks. multiple regression analysis is undertaken for analyzing the impact. it is fou...