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Corporate governance and bank performance in China / Jiang, Chunxia; Feng, Genfu; Zhang, Jianhua

Jiang, Chunxia	Journal Article
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2012.

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This paper examines the effects of corporate governance on bank performance in China over the period 1995-2008. Bank performance has improved significantly and the mean profit efficiency level is estimated at 61%. The results suggest that differences in corporate governance have significant impacts on bank performance: banks with majority foreign ownership are most profitable while banks with majority state ownership are most unprofitable. We find no evidence that foreign minority ownership in domestic banks improves performance. Banks with more dispersed ownership are found to be more profit efficient.

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Corporate Governance ; SFA ; Chinese Banking

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ID: 168004

Western Security Force Assistance in Weak States: Time for a Peacebuilding Approach / Knowles, Emily; Matisek, Jahara

Matisek, Jahara	Journal Article
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Security force assistance (SFA) is increasingly emphasised as a way of supporting local partners on the front lines. In this article, Emily Knowles and Jahara Matisek suggest that traditional approaches to SFA are too technical to deal with political problems in fragile states. They suggest a new vision for SFA in fragmented security sectors: a peacebuilding tool for stabilising political settlements that improves relationships across armed groups and between the security sector and civilian population.

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SFA ; Security Force Assistance ; Western Security Force

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ID: 166325

Which provincial administrative regions in China should reduce their coal consumption? an environmental energy input requirement / Li, Hong-Zhou

Li, Hong-Zhou	Journal Article
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The study is designed to examine whether or not there are scientific grounds for Directive 2984 which was issued to reduce coal consumption by the Chinese central government in 2014. We propose a parametric stochastic frontier model that can be used to measure non-radial environmental energy efficiency, which has not been addressed so far and gather a panel data set covering 29 provincial administrative regions in Mainland China between 2000 and 2013. Our empirical results demonstrate the existence of inappropriateness and self-contradiction in this mandatory plan and offer a new list of regions for coal consumption reduction. We also recommend the implementation of regulatory impact analysis in the second round of this mandatory plan to improve transparency and consistency in the short run and the establishment of more market-based or market-mimicking incentive-compatible measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the long run.

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China ; Undesirable Outputs ; SFA ; Environment Energy Efficiency ; Coal Consumption Reduction Plan

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