— The function of international organizations (IOs) as suppliers of international or global public goods (GPGs) has received increasing attention in recent years. But in a world with many claimants and limited resources, GPGs are more likely to have common pool properties than be pure public goods. The paper develops a joint-products model of public goods supply by international organizations, ...

This mixed methods study examined motivations and barriers to substance abuse treatment entry and treatment continuation among Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) substance users. AAPI substance users (N = 61) were recruited from substance abuse treatment programs in California and Hawaii. Semi-structured interviews and interviewer-administered surveys assessed barriers and facilitators ...

INTRODUCTION AND AIMS Alcohol-related violence and other types of victimisation are prevalent, but unevenly distributed across the population. The study investigated the relationship between alcohol-related victimisation and sexual orientation (heterosexual, homosexual, bisexual, other) in a national sample. DESIGN AND METHODS The study used cross-sectional data from the 2010 Australian Natio...

The quality of corporate governance has been shown to have wide-ranging implications, e.g., on the performances of stock markets and on exchange rates. This study investigates whether the quality of corporate governance impacts investment decisions made at the micro level of the firm. We focus our study on emerging markets since it has been known that they have widely varying standards of corpo...

Related Party Transactions (RPTs) are perceived as genuine transactions, which fulfill the economic needs of a company. However, controlling shareholders may use RPTs tool for transferring firm’s resources their private benefit. The dual effect RPTs, i.e., transaction efficiency and conflict interest between minority shareholders, increase audit risk result, increases fee. Companies Act, 2013, ...

We examine the effects o subscription behavior and wealth transferring controlled by larger shareholders on price discount of private placement. Price discount of private placement and wealth transferring effect exhibits a significant trend when larger shareholders subscribe more private placement shares. Shares proportion subscribed by larger shareholders, shares size of private placement and ...