Firms with different ownership structure behave differently. Currently there are three major ownership structures in China’s industrial sector: state enterprises, collective enterprises, and private enterprises Market-oriented economic reform has given great autonomy to firm managers in terms of decision making. Nevertheless, properties are still owned by different levels of governments in the ...

This prospectus analyzes the potential determinants of Chinese non-performing loan (NPL) ratio in banking sector and its implications using panel data from different banks in China. By incorporating both bank specific factors and macro variables, it shows domestic credit growth rate, bank profitability measures and bank ownership play important roles in determining NPL ratio. Analysis of propor...

The literature on multinationality-performance relationship has been limited to multinational firms from developed economies, and previous studies generally disregard the effects of location and ownership structure. This paper seeks to explain this relationship in the emerging market context, highlighting the importance of location decisions and ownership structure. We use panel data that inclu...

Based on panel data from 1995-1997, the research focuses on the impact of ownership structure on the performance of Russian non-financial privatized companies that constitute the group of blue chips of the country’s stock market. Several performance indicators are used: Tobin’s Q, labour productivity and profitability. In particular, the paper analyzes the relationship between company performan...

Two of every three American homicide victims are killed with firearms, yet little is known about the role played by household firearms in homicide victimization. The present study is the first to examine the cross sectional association between household firearm ownership and homicide victimization across the 50 US states, by age and gender, using nationally representative state-level survey-bas...

Ownership types support information hiding by providing object-based encapsulation. However the static restrictions they impose on object accessibility can limit the expressiveness of ownership types. In order to deal with real applications, it is sometimes necessary to admit mechanisms for dynamically exposing otherwise encapsulated information. The need for policies and mechanisms to control ...

This thesis extends the literature on the role of state ownership by distinguishing the governance roles of two types of state-share holders in China’s listed companies. Government agencies that act as state-share holders (“GA shareholders”) are detrimental to firm value according to both the political and managerial perspectives. Non-government agencies such as SOEs and other forms of market-o...

The purpose of this study was to investigate differences and similarities among United States (US) and Turkish university students in technology ownership, uses of technology for academic purposes, perceived importance of technology, and preferences for technology in education. The EDUCAUSE Center for Analytics and Research (ECAR) undergraduate student technology survey was used to collect data...

Managed care is now the norm for many on Medicaid, with approximately 19 million people on Medicaid enrolled in health maintenance organizations. In 2005, nearly 300 plans nationwide participated in state Medicaid managed care programs, with many of those plans operating under for-profit ownership. Concerns about the impact of plan ownership on access to care arise because of differences in the...