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Reinsurance Purchases, Contingent Commission Payments and Insurer Reserve Estimation
Prior studies on errors in reserve estimation suggest that insurers manage loss reserves to achieve corporate goals, including tax minimisation and income smoothing

Mark J. Browne, Lan Ju, Yu Lei

ARTICLE | The Geneva Papers | Vol. 37, 2012

Keywords: Reserve errors, Reinsurance, Contingent commissions, Tax minimisation

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A Unique 'T+1 Trading Rule' in China: Theory and Evidence
Unique to the world, China adopts a ‘‘T + 1 trading rule’’, which prevents investors from selling stocks bought on the same day We develop a dynamic price manipulation model to study the effects of the ‘‘T + 1 trading rule’’

Ming Guo, Zhan Li, Zhiyong Tu

ARTICLE | Journal of Banking & Finance | Vol. 36, 2012

Keywords: T + 1 Trading rule, Trading Volume, Volatility, Trend-chasing

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A Sectoral Comparison of Wage Levels and Wage Inequality in Human Services Industries
The authors explore differences among for-profit, nonprofit, and local government organizations in wage levels and inequality

Avner Ben-Ner, Ting Ren, and Darla Flint Paulson

ARTICLE | Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly | 2011

Keywords: Wages, Wage inequality, Nonprofit and for-profit comparison, Local government, Human services

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Female Participation in TMT and Firm Performance: Evidence from Chinese Private Enterprises
Purpose – This paper proposes an examination of the relationship between female participation in top management teams and firm performance in the emerging Chinese private economy

Ting Ren, Zheng Wang

ARTICLE | Nankai Business Review International | Vol. 2 No. 2, 2011

Keywords: Women executives, Company performance, Human capital, Senior management, Private sector organizations, China

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Lavish Returns on Cheap Talk: Two-way Communication in Trust Games
We conduct trust game experiments in which subjects can sometimes exchange proposals either in numerical (tabular) form, or using chat messages followed by exchange of numerical proposals

Avner Ben-Ner, Louis Putterman, Ting Ren

ARTICLE | The Journal of Socio-Economics | Vol. 40, 2011

Keywords: Trust game, Trust, Trustworthiness, Reciprocity, Commitment, Communication, Cheap talk

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A Re-examination of the Relation Between Democracy and International Trade
Scholars and policy makers believe that democracy will bring prosperity through integration into the global economy via increased international trade

Christopher Balding

ARTICLE | Journal of International Trade & Economic Development | Vol.20,2011

Keywords: Bilateral trade, Developing countries, Governance, gravity model, Liberalization, Trade policy

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A Comparative Study of Allocation of Decision-making across Stakeholders Groups: the Case of Personal Care Industries
The article compares the allocation of decision-making across stakeholder groups in for-profit, nonprofit and local government personal care facilities in one state in the United States

Avner BEN-NER, Ting REN

ARTICLE | Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics | 2010

Keywords: Allocation of Decision-making, Stakeholders Groups, Personal Care Industries

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On the Determinants of House Value Volatility
Few studies have analyzed the determinants of house value volatility at the level of individual houses

Yu Zhou and Donald R. Haurin

ARTICLE | JRER | Vol. 32, 2010

Keywords: House Value Volatility

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A Modest Proposal for a Two-Sided Market Clearing Institution under Asymmetric Supply Constraints with Skewed Pricing: The Market for Adoption and Abortion in the United States
This paper presents a theoretical model matching the potential supply of terminated pregnancies with the total demand for children within certain modeling constraints

Christopher Balding

ARTICLE | Journal of Public Economic Theory | Vol.12,2010

Keywords: Terminated pregnancies,Exogenous preference formation

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What Determines Employment Opportunity for College Graduates in China after Higher Education Reform?
Using the 2005 placement data from two separate colleges, this paper studies graduate job allocation in China after higher education reform

Tao Li, Juyan Zhang

ARTICLE | China Economic Review | Vol. 21, 2010

Keywords: Employment, Graduate, GPA

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