We analyze the relationship between flows and performance of Chinese mutual funds that trade in a volatile market environment. Consistent with existing literature, we find that the net flow to a fund is positively related to past fund performance. Contrary to previous studies using samples in...

We find profitability measures fail to explain future stock returns of China's A-shares. In addition, although profitability growth significantly and positively correlates with the cumulative stock return in the following year, profitability measures do not predict profitability growth,...

Rainwater hydrochemistry is an important indicator for tracing anthropogenic input on air quality. As the fastest economically developing city in the northwestern China and the Chinese Loess Plateau, rainwater chemistry, sources of dissolved solutes, and the influence of loess dust on rainwater...

This paper studies the relationship between optimal prizes and scarcity of ideas in innovation contests. We consider a model where both ideas and effort are integral parts of the innovation process. Contest participants are privately informed about their idea quality. We introduce a new...

Empirical results show that the introduction of a superstar — an opponent with relatively high ability — into a contest may have opposite effects: sometimes it increases other participants' performance while other times decreases it. We present a cohesive model capturing both effects and...

Should a social program be run at a higher or lower level of government? We consider a government-run program supplying a private good to consumers. We focus on a tradeoff between the advantage of a high level of government in resource allocation and its disadvantage in consumer information. We...

This note studies contests in which multiple participants compete for two distinct prizes. The participants have distinct constant marginal costs, which are commonly known. We show that the contests have a unique Nash equilibrium, and we characterize the equilibrium payoffs and strategies in...

Using a unique sample of open-ended mutual funds, which are not subject to “pass through” requirements, we test whether paying dividend creates a potential agency issue. We find that dividend yield (DY) is positively (negatively) related to a fund's post-dividend net cash flow (performance)....