This study examines the information environment and earnings management of dual class firms. Motivated by the pronounced entrenchment phenomenon at dual class firms due to divergence between voting and cash flow rights, we are interested in whether dual class firms adopt corporate disclosure...

We find that more social connections between a CEO and other top executives in the same firm are associated with more effective tax avoidance by the firm. This effect holds when several alternative measures of corporate tax avoidance are used, and it also persists in a subsample of firms that...

The release of uranium from uranium tailings into the aqueous environment is a complex process controlled by a series of interacting geochemical reactions. In this paper, uranium tailings from a uranium tailings pond in southern China were collected at different depths by means of borehole...

This study aimed to investigate the geometry distinction of the pores formed by brittle minerals in shale oil reservoir and dig out its significance in hydrocarbon migration and exploitation. 14050 pores related to brittle minerals in typical shale oil reservoir samples are selected as the...