"This book investigates Vietnam's integration into the changing global and regional electronics production networks since the 2000s. It reveals that instead of driving only by the traditional lead firms and the lower costs, this complex production reconfiguration has been co-led by various firms...

We show that there is no revelation principle for implementation in strategically simple mechanisms (Borgers and Li, ECMA 2019). In the bilateral trade problem, a strategic simple mechanisms may fail to satisfy local dictatorship and ex post individual rationality. There is, however, a...

As air quality has deteriorated, corporate environmental information disclosure (EID) has received extensive attention. We examine how air quality and institutional investors affect corporate EID under China's New Environmental Protection Law (NEPL). We show that air quality's effect on EID...

We examine the relative timeliness with which asset write-downs incorporate adverse macroeconomic outcomes versus adverse firm-specific outcomes. We posit that, compared to adverse macroeconomic outcomes, adverse firm-specific outcomes exhibit high information asymmetry between firm managers and...

The addition of Phase Change Materials (PCM) to the salt gradient solar pond can significantly increase the heat capacity of the solar pond.Paraffin wax has a suitable range of phase transitions temperature and is feasible to be appllied in solar pond. However, However, the poor thermal...