In accordance with the economic data from Statistical Communique on National Economy and Social Development in Hubei Province in the period 1980 2009, we use co-integration analysis method to research the impact of GDP growth on residents' consumer spending. Result shows that although there are...

Solid solution materials show promising performance for applications in rechargeable lithium-ion batteries, but their synthesis and conversion mechanism are still quite a difficult task that needs to be tackled. Herein, a cubic Mn 0.6 Fe 0.4 S solid solution based on conversion reactions is...

In the US, Cohen and Frazzini (2008) shows that suppliers returns are predictable using lagged customers returns. The converse does not hold. In China, however, both predictive directions hold: customer returns predict future sup-pliers’ returns as in the US, and suppliers returns predict...

Counterparty credit risk (CCR), a key driver of the 2007-08 credit crisis, has become one of the main focuses of the major global and U.S. regulatory standards. Financial institutions invest large amounts of resources employing Monte Carlo simulation to measure and price their counterparty...

Survey evidence reveals that managers prefer to avoid dilution of earnings per share (EPS), though financial theory suggests it is irrelevant in firm valuation. We explore contracting and behavioral explanations for this apparent paradox using a large sample of debt-equity issuers. We first...

Counterparty credit risk (CCR), a key driver of the 2007-08 credit crisis, has become one of the main focuses of the major global and U.S. regulatory standards. Financial institutions invest large amounts of resources employing Monte Carlo simulation to measure and price their counterparty...

Motivated by the increasing use of online appointment booking platforms, we study how to offer appointment slots to customers in order to maximize the total number of slots booked. We develop two models, non-sequential offering and sequential offering, to capture different types of interactions...

This paper considers the problem of estimating spot volatility in the simultaneous presence of Lévy jumps and market microstructure noise. We propose to use the pre-averaging approach and the threshold kernel-based method to construct a spot volatility estimator, which is robust to both...