Solving the risk of zombification of enterprises and relieving their business difficulties, as a key element of supply-side structural reform, is the pain point of the conversion of old and new dynamic energy and the difficulty of economic transformation and upgrading. In the Internet era, the...

This paper proposes an ensemble radial basis function neural network that selects important RBF subsets based on Pareto chart using Bootstrap samples. Then, the analysis of variance method is used to determine the choice of the unequal/equal weights. The effectiveness of the proposed technique...

Protecting environment has become a vital responsibility for corporations. Based on manually collected data of China’s A-share listed companies from 2010 to 2017, this study investigates the effìct of corporate political connections (PCs) on corporate environmental protection-related...

We evaluate the performance of 51 mutual fund families based on a study of their diversified US managed mutual funds over an 11 year period and explore the determinants of performance gross of published expenses. We find that mutual fund families which charge loads, high expenses to their most...

Purpose - The purpose of this study is to extend the classical noncentral F-distribution under normal settings to noncentral closed skew F-distribution for dealing with independent samples from multivariate skew normal (SN) distributions. Design/methodology/approach - Based on generalized...