This thesis is a collection of three essays on industrial productivity growth in Asia. The first two essays analyze an unbalanced panel data set on 606 Chinese machinery factories in Guangdong province, from 1980 to 1991. We find rapid although volatile TFP growth in these facto…
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This research project is an in-depth examination of Emergency Medical Services development in three Asia/Pacific countries. The purpose was to determine if Emergency Medical Services development needs to follow similar processes, conditions, or circumstances as countries with de…
This dissertation relaxes the traditional assumption used in consumer theory, which takes preferences as fixed. I propose a model of immigrants' consumption behavior based on habit formation, incorporating past experiences, other consumers' consumption patterns, availability of …
Chapter 1 addresses the following question: Is China diverting foreign direct investment from other Asian economies? Theoretically, a growing China can add to other countries' direct investment by creating more opportunities for production networking and by raising demand for ra…
This paper investigates audit fee determinants in four countries: India, Malaysia, Hong Kong, and the United Kingdom. The OLI theory of the multinational enterprise (MNE) suggests that a Big 6 audit fee premium will more likely exist in developed countries, such as Hong Kong and…
This dissertation consisted of three studies investigating the nature of maternal mediation of writing among kindergarten and first grade children and their mothers across the two prominent Chinese societies of Hong Kong and Beijing and further examined the associations of mater…
In the paper, we propose a new methodology to test and date the financial contagion. The newly proposed multivariate model not only incorporates endogenous structural breaks but also encompasses a "mixed" version of state-space model. It provides a "direct" test for the presence…
This research provides a case study for Eric Wolf's research directive to better comprehend the interplay of cultural (webs of meaning) and material (webs of power) forms of social life. More specifically, this research demonstrates how theological discourse and practice (as a c…
This dissertation is an attempt to analyse the changes in the public role of religion in Hong Kong society during the period of political transition from colonial rule to incorporation of Hong Kong into mainland China (1984-1998). The thesis of this dissertation is that the publ…
This study first identifies the issues in the training of missionary students spiritually, emotionally, and socially. By doing so, it constructs an internationally adaptable person-formation framework. Then, it describes and evaluates the condition of the Chinese cross-cultural …
Benjamin Lai blev født i Hong Kong, uddannet i England, og tjente som officer i den britiske territoriale hær i i 1980' erne og 1990' erne. Her skriver han om Japanernes invasion af Hong Kong i 2. Verdenskrig .
The founders of the Hong Kong College of Medicine for Chinese (HKCM) had the lofty vision of helping to bring Western science and medicine to China, which, they hoped, would contribute to the larger objective of modernizing the nation. That this latter goal was partly realized t…
