Refractory metal (Pd/Ge/Ti/Pt/Au) on semi-insulated GaAs (SI-GaAs) have been prepared and annealed at 380,400 and 425℃. Optical microscope and SEM images show that there is no significant difference in refractory metal surface morphology before and after annealing, compared with the standard...

Financial regulators often focus on containing risks in financial services, while paying inadequate attention to regulation’s adverse effects on the underprivileged. This study examines how the upward mobility of borrowers was affected by China’s suppressive regulation of P2P lending in...

Co-opetition becomes a more and more popular strategy in industry and is a growing force in the innovation landscape. Seldom research has considered the cases that co-opetition firms are providing service to customers who are waiting-time sensitive. This paper studies an M/M/1 queueing model...

Satellite data reveal that China has significantly increased its vegetation cover since 2000, and vegetation will maintain the increasing trend in the foreseeable future for becoming carbon neutral. However, limited work has examined the environmental impacts of vegetation greening because...

A large finance literature has documented an important role for aggregate credit supply. However, there has only been a small amount of research on the role competition plays in influencing the overall importance of credit. This paper explores the possibility that changes in credit market...

Under the ‘rural revitalization strategy’, it’s important for the largest reservoir in China – The three Gorges Reservoir Area (TGRA), located in poverty alleviation Qinling-Daba mountains, characterized as alpine gorges, dominated by backwards resettlement, pig farming around the...

This study aims to investigate the macroeconomic effects of China’s climate policy uncertainty (CCPU) shock. To this end, we construct a novel CCPU index, which is found to coincide with key domestic climate policy changes. By using the time-varying VAR method, we show that CCPU has a...

This chapter outlines a dynamic model of compositional strategic advantage for resource-poor firms where the attractiveness of the product offering in terms of scope and perceived value-to-price ratio identifies a number of elementary compositional strategies. A resource-poor firm can establish...