Cultural distance is an important factor for the success of venture capital (VC) investments. Using a large sample of Chinese VC events, this study examines how cultural proximity between VC investors and portfolio firms, as measured by a unique indicator using Chinese dialects, affects the...

This article explores the dynamic distribution of city-level CO2 emissions in China from the national and regional perspectives. To highlight this issue, we propose a q-σ stochastic convergence model to checkout the heterogeneous convergence trend of carbon emissions at different quantiles. A...

Purpose: Rural credit cooperatives (RCCs) have long dominated China’s rural credit market and met most of agricultural credit demands while the existing literature seldom examines their contribution to agricultural sector. The purpose of this paper is to provide empirical evidence on the...

A carbon nanotube based gas diffusion layer (CNT-GDL) for direct methanol fuel cells (DMFCs) was prepared by sintering the wet carbon paper made of CNT, polyacrylonitrile-based carbon fibre (PCF) and PTFE, completely replacing the commercial carbon paper based GDL (Toray-GDL). The results of...