In the present paper, the surface and size effects on the alloying ability and phase stability of immiscible alloy nanoparticles have been studied with calculating the heats of formation of Au-Pt alloy nanoparticles from the single element nanoparticles of their constituents (Au and Pt) with a...

Using two newly available datasets of listed firms covering the period from 1994 to 2003, we test if share-issue privatization, defined here as the change of corporate control from the State to private owners rather than the IPO event as in earlier studies, improved firm performance in China. To...

Using quarterly data for 1995-2005, we examine the role of financial factors in China's recent increases in real sector activity. A series of cointegrated VAR models indicate that banking sector development was central to these successes, but that stock market development, as measured by market...