Shareholder activism is an important source of corporate governance. Using a dynamic regression discontinuity design on shareholder proposals that pass or fail by a small margin of votes in shareholder meetings, we analyze the effect of shareholder-initiated corporate governance on earnings...

Does accounting regime play a role in the well-documented phenomenon of overbidding in M&As? The 2001 regulatory change from a goodwill amortization to a non-amortization regime (SFAS 142) affords us a quasi-experimental setting for testing the consequences of M&A accounting rules for acquirers'...

Porous framework materials hold great promise in tuning the chemical and physical structure of polyamide membranes for efficient desalination. In this work, anionic covalent organic framework (aCOF) with abundant sulfonic acid groups was embedded into polyamide matrix via interfacial...

Chemodynamic therapy (CDT), which is featured with high tumor specificity and selectivity, has aroused extensive interest as an advanced anti-cancer approach. However, chemodynamic therapeutic efficacy heavily relies on the level of endogenous hydrogen peroxide (H 2 O 2 ) that is intrinsically...