In this paper, based on the incomplete contract perspective, we select the implementation of the Electronic Commerce Law of the People's Republic of China as a quasi-natural experiment to study the tax compliance incentive effects of platform firms. Our study finds that the Chinese experience...

This study examines the impact of judicial protection of intellectual property rights on firms' independent innovation. Using a staggered difference-in-differences model with panel data from Chinese manufacturing listed businesses (2014-2021) and the successive establishment of intellectual...

This study investigates the manufacturer's contract choice (drop-shipping or batch ordering) and retailer's information sharing strategy in the presence of product quality decisions. The equilibrium outcomes give strategic choices for both the manufacturer and retailer. Specifically, the...

Using Credit Default Swaps (CDS) on sovereign bonds, we investigate whether US sovereign default risk is a greater driving factor of domestic interbank funding risk than domestic sovereign default risk across the five Libor counties including Canada and Australia. We use equivalent-country...

This study explores the feasibility of micro-enterprise cluster applications in online-to-offline service platforms to better understand the impact of social innovations and information and communications technology (ICT) capabilities in the digital age. We tried to discover the factors that...