We construct a two-period Kyle model to investigate how a financial online influencer manipulates the stock market. Given that an online influencer usually has many loyal fans, he firstly places a random order in the market and transmits the order signal to his fans, and then engages in...

With the development of China's rapid economic development, China's energy consumption is increasing. There has always been an objective contradiction between economic development and environmental pollution control. Green finance, as a capital investment for environmental pollution treatment...

Designing appropriate import tariff rates is crucial for global trade. In this paper, we propose game-theoretic models to investigate how tariff policies affect the competition of multinational firms (MNFs) in a global trading environment. The MNFs sell substitutable products and compete in two...

The study of elderly entrepreneurship and its potential impact on labor, Social Security funds and regional economic growth is of significant importance, particularly for the US economy where population aging coincidentally intersects with the economic shift to a “knowledge economy”. On the...

We examine the exam score effect of online proctoring with a comprehensive split sample of proctored and unproctored students in an upper-level economics class. Ours is the first study to measure the online proctoring effect, to our knowledge, that combines student in-class performance metrics,...

This paper investigates the determinants of public pension plan risk-taking behavior using the percentage of total plan assets invested in the equity markets and the pension asset beta as measures of investment risk. We find that government accounting standards strongly affect public fund...

This paper investigates the determinants of public pension plan risk-taking behavior using the percentage of total plan assets invested in the equity markets and the pension asset beta as measures of investment risk. We find that government accounting standards strongly affect public fund...