National Chengchi University

Firm‐Level Productivity and Stock Return: Evidence from Taiwan

Abstract We examine whether firm‐level total factor productivity (TFP) in Taiwan predicts the cross section of stock returns. We estimate TFP in Taiwan and find that, in contrast to negative relationships documented for US firms, high TFP firms earn higher expected returns than l...

From cultural assets to recorded knowledge: Rethinking digital heritage platforms as documentary infrastructures

National digital heritage platforms are often treated as access portals that disseminate digitized cultural materials. This article argues that they can also operate as documentary infrastructures through which cultural assets are transformed into recorded, searchable and publicl...

The relationship between land consolidation and neighboring housing prices – application of quantile regression

Purpose This study aims to use the hedonic price method to explore the relationship between land consolidation and neighboring housing prices. Design/methodology/approach Beginning in the 1980s, with the goal of expediting the city’s development, the Kaohsiung City Government beg...

Culture and China’s Economic Development

This study examines the economic implications of long-standing Confucian values and the principles of socialism with Chinese characteristics for China's economic development, particularly in the context of growing tensions between the United States and China. By incorporating an...

Minimizing $$\ell _2$$ norm of flow time by starvation mitigation

The assessment of a job’s Quality of Service (QoS) often revolves around its flow time, also referred to as response time. This study delves into two fundamental objectives for scheduling jobs: the average flow time and the maximum flow time. While the Shortest Remaining Processi...

Smoothing-based approaches for detecting age-specific spatial clusters in small-area mortality data: a simulation evaluation

Abstract Background With the increasing availability of high-resolution rate data such as age-specific mortality and disease incidence rates, it has become feasible to perform cluster detection stratified by age group. However, the accurate identification of spatial clusters in s...

Context-Dependent Neural Mechanisms of Motor Imagery in Open‑ and Closed‑Skill Athletes Across Competitive Scenarios

This study examined how highly trained open- and closed-skill athletes recruit neural resources during cue-supported motor imagery (MI) under two experimentally cued contexts: peak performance imagery (PPI) and routine training imagery (RTI). Thirty-four athletes (17 per group) c...

A Variable Dimension Covariance Matrix Control Chart

ABSTRACT Monitoring more than two correlated quality variables simultaneously is essential in industrial manufacturing and service processes. Consequently, multivariate statistical process control (MSPC) has become an important and widely studied research area. This paper aims to...

Empowering Confidence before Authority: Principal Humble Leadership, Role Breadth Self-efficacy, Teacher Autonomy, and Proactive Work Behavior in Taiwanese Secondary Schools

Abstract Policy reforms expand teachers’ formal authority, but the gap between policy and practice, treated here as a contextual condition rather than an empirically estimated discrepancy, does not necessarily occur because of structural conditions for implementation alone; the p...

Temporal spillovers in mixed-member systems: legislative incumbency and party-list voting in Taiwan

Abstract Does personal incumbency advantage generate lasting party-level gains across electoral tiers? We examine whether winning a single-member district (SMD) seat increases a party’s proportional representation (PR) vote share in the subsequent election under Taiwan’s mixed-me...

When leaders rock the boat: Leader reputation and the credibility of US commitments

Do allies translate negative assessments of a patron state’s leader into doubts about the credibility of the patron state? Recent work suggests that they do, but this article argues otherwise. It develops a theory of reputational filtering, whereby allied elites interpret leader-...

An analysis of Taiwan’s educational contributions to sustainable development: evidence from Taiwan’s university social responsibility

Purpose This study aims to examine the operational logic through which Taiwan’s university social responsibility (USR) program, led by the Taiwan authorities, promotes local sustainable development, compare it with the operational logic of USR programs in Europe and the United St...

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