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CDS Pricing and Elections in Emerging Markets
​To study the role of elections in financial market instability, we focus on the role of credit risk pricing during elections from 2004 to 2007 in 13 emerging market economies

Christopher Balding

ARTICLE | Journal of Emerging Market Finance | Vol.10, 2011

Keywords: Emerging markets, Credit default swaps, Sovereign debt, Elections 

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Viability of Self-Employment
Empirical studies on self-employment uniformly cite the high mortality rate in both developed and developing countries

Mudziviri Nziramasanga, Sanjoy Bhattacharjee, Minsoo Lee

ARTICLE | Journal of Development Studies | Vol.45, No.7, 2009

Keywords: Self-Employment

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Ownership and Quality in Markets with Asymmetric Information: Evidence from Nursing Homes
The ownership and governance of for-profit (FP), nonprofit (NP), and local government (LG) organizations are different

Avner Ben-Ner, Pinar Karaca-Mandic, Ting Ren

ARTICLE | The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy | Vol. 12, 2012

Keywords: Ownership, Quality, Asymmetric information, Nursing homes, for-profit firms, Nonprofit organizations, Local government organizations 

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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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