The coexistence of the government sector, state-owned enterprises (SOEs), and private sector provides a natural setting to examine the impact of economic reform in Vietnam on gender earning differentials. The three sectors reflect different degrees of influence of the Socialist ideology, with the private sector most liberalised. Have women fared better during the transition into a market econom...

This study explores the differences in pollution control performances of industrial enterprises with various ownerships in China – State owned (SOE), collectively or community owned (COE), privately owned (POE), foreign directly invested (FDI) companies as well as joint ventures. A survey was conducted of approximately 1000 industrial firms in three provinces in China, which collects the detail...

This paper provides an empirical analysis of corporate governance (CG) efficiencies among Chinese listed companies (CLCs) under different types of ownership. Employing the data of over 700 CLCs in 2006, this study looks specifically into the effects of separation of controlling and residual claim rights upon CG (specifically management turnover) and firm performance under different shareholding...

This useful book surveys state-owned enterprises (SOEs) across six contrasting Asian countries. It begins by providing a framework for understanding the role, performance and reform of SOEs in Asia...

Based on data of state-owned enterprises listed the Shanghai and Shenzhen Stock Exchange from 2007 to 2018, this study examines how mixed-ownership reform affects deleveraging behaviour (hereafter, SOEs). We find that higher degree equity balance between shareholders non-state-owned SOEs, more inclined they are choose deleverage. As for methods deleveraging, retained earnings current debt repay...

Abstract The paper pursues a mixed methods approach of conducting both quantitative and qualitative content analysis corporate social responsibility (CSR) reports in two types Chinese companies: State-owned (SOE) non-state-owned (non-SOE) enterprises. Quantitative revealed overall homogeneity CSR reporting among SOEs non-SOEs China, which can be explained by coercive isomorphism on national sca...

This dissertation studies three topics in modern Chinese economic development. The problems tackled include the determinants of city size distribution and economy growth, the impact of privatization of the state-owned enterprises (SOEs), and the relationship between executive compensation and …rm-level risk. Chapter 1 documents the emergence of Zipf’s law in China, using a new database containi...

Abstract This paper proposes methods to incorporate firm heterogeneity in the standard IO-table based approach to portray the domestic segment of global value chains in a country. Using Chinese firm census data for both manufacturing and service sectors, along with constrained optimization techniques, we split the conventional IO table into sub-accounts, which are used to estimate direct and in...

The views expressed in this paper are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Arab Monetary Fund. Abstract While it is well documented that privatization leads to an improvement in the performance of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) following divestiture, it is argued that many of these studies do not consider the performance of control firms of similar pre-privatizati...