Nowadays, non-financial corporations invest heavily in financial assets, questioning the traditional boundaries of non-financial firms. We investigate how economic policy uncertainty affects firms' holding of non-currency financial assets and portfolios of such assets in China. We find that...

The market for plug-in electric vehicles (EVs) exhibits indirect network effects in that there is interdependence between consumer decision of EV purchase and investor decision of charging station deployment. Through a stylized model, we demonstrate that indirect network effects on both sides of...