By integrating the literature on institutional investors with that on seasoned equity offerings (SEOs), this paper investigates the role played by mutual funds around SEO announcements in China. To the extent that shareholdings already held by mutual funds in a firm prior to the firm's SEO...

A two-machine flow shop scheduling problem with rejection is considered in this paper. The objective is to minimize the sum of makespan of accepted operations and total penalty of rejected operations. Each job has two operations that could be rejected, respectively. Operations on the first...

Bi0.95La0.05FeO3(BLFOx=0.05) film was fabricated on indium tin oxide/glass substrate using a metal organic decomposition method. No secondary phase can be observed in the well crystallized and predominantly (110)-oriented BLFOx=0.05 film. Well-saturated P - E hysteresis loops with the remanent...

Signaling mechanisms are prevalent in two-sided markets because they typically help reduce information asymmetry and improve efficiency. While a growing number of studies focus on the actions of signal-senders, there has been little empirical research on how signal-receivers may react to the...