VOLUME 11(1) • 2016
ENERGY SECURITY AND SUSTAINABLE GROWTH: EVIDENCE FROM CHINA
ABSTRACT. Research on China’s growth pattern and the relationship between economic structure and energy intensity in China has yielded fairly consistent findings over the past decade. The material gathered in this study provides a rich and diverse context for understanding China’s sustainable econom..
E-GOVERNMENT AND SOCIAL MEDIA AS EFFECTIVE TOOLS IN CONTROLLING CORRUPTION IN PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
ABSTRACT. This research makes conceptual and methodological contributions to the restrictions of e-government in its function as an anti-corruption instrument, ICT-enabled strategies as openness and anti-corruption instruments and the link among ICTs and macroeconomic variables in supplying more sig..
THE DYNAMICS OF CHINA’S SUSTAINABLE ECONOMIC GROWTH
ABSTRACT. The purpose of this paper is to gain a deeper understanding of China’s sustainable growth and low-carbon goals, the strengthening of China’s economic reforms, and the function of the renminbi in being instrumental in China’s external trade inequalities. This paper discusses the major trend..
JOHN COCHRANE VERSUS WALTER E. BLOCK: DEBATE ON AUSTRIAN ECONOMICS AND LIBERTARIANISM
ABSTRACT. Two professors, both economists and libertarians, debate on the issues of libertarianism and Austrian economics. The discussion ranges widely over Keynesianism, monetarism, business cycles, Paul Krugman, Milton Friedman, sticky wages, drug laws, immigration restrictions, gay marriage and a..
CAN EARNINGS MANIPULATION CREATE VALUE?
ABSTRACT. We consider a long-term board of directors-CEO relationship, where the firm’s performance depends on the CEO’s productive effort and where the CEO can be involved in earnings manipulation (EM). An agency-based two-period model is built and analyzed. The CEO pay includes a bonus and stock o..
ALTERNATE EQUITY INDEXATION FOR TECHNOLOGY STOCKS: AN APPLICATION TO THE NASDAQ INDEX
ABSTRACT. Technology stocks can be quite volatile as innovation creates new opportunities, however many technology companies may not provide a dividends that makes them harder to value. Fund managers try to outperform technology indexes, but the majority are unable to outperform them. So, investors ..