As live streaming commerce has received increasing attention, more businesses have adopted it as a new marketing channel and employ broadcasters to promote their products/brands. When recommending products to consumers (viewers), broadcasters showcase various characteristics that may affect the...

According to the size effect, small cap securities generally generate greater returns than those of large cap securities. Recent studies have however suggested that for certain periods, size cannot be considered as a relevant explanatory variable, and therefore as an anomaly. Our study, based on...

As the urbanization rate in the world has increased rapidly, the housing vacancy problem has become serious and attracting more attention. Calculating and analyzing vacant housing will help reduce the wasteful use of resources. This paper measures the housing vacancy rate and housing vacancy...

A wide range of recent antitrust enforcement actions in the pharmaceutical sector have taken place in China over the past months. All three Chinese antitrust authorities have been involved, and all types of anti-competitive conduct have been targeted. The multiple enforcement actions by a number...

Globally, daunting plastic waste has become a grave ecological concern, which has mounted pressure on ecologists, government, businesses, and researchers to explore innovative opportunities to manage the situation. As a perceived panacea, the reverse supply chain is now an essential approach...