Using the firm level data on companies listed on China’s A-shares market from 2006 to 2017, this paper applies a difference-in-differences (DID) empirical method to test whether the exogenous state policy in China used for identifying firms as either “high-tech” or “frontier...

Cheap information technology has increased the availability of historical price information to strategic consumers in many environments. This information may impact the consumer's purchasing behavior. We study how a seller should react in such a scenario. We focus on a seller of a single asset...

Sales management never received much attention in Chinese enterprises under central planning. Firms purchased inputs from suppliers and sold to customers assigned by the plan. For transactions outside the plan, personal connections were more important than selling skills or sales management,...

Recently, serval studies reported that the surface topography has a significant effect on the competitive adsorption of protein, especially when the characteristic length of topography is closed to that of protein. However, both macro experiment and micro molecular dynamics simulation are not...