Industrial policies affect local and even national economic development by influencing the redistribution of factor resources. As an immovable special element, the distribution process of land is directly interfered by the government. Based on this, we take the industrial business data and...

Social and cultural factors will affect people’s economic decision-making. This paper discusses the impact of cultural factors on insurance demand, enriching the relevant research in this field. As a special financial product, insurance demand research has important theoretical and practical...

We employ the Shanghai-Hong Kong Connect and the Shenzhen- Hong Kong Connect (hereafter, the Connects) as exogenous shocks to the liberalization of China’s A-share stock market and study how the Connects shape Chinese firms’ ESG policies. The staggered difference-in-differences (DiD)...

Multi-task learning (MTL) aims at achieving a better model by leveraging data and knowledge from multiple tasks. However, MTL does not always work – sometimes negative transfer occurs between tasks, especially when aggregating loosely related skills, leaving it an open question when MTL works....