This paper highlights the effects of short selling activity on the profitability and investment premiums. Recently, Fama and French (2015) extend their three-factor asset pricing model by adding profitability and investment factors. Using short interest as a proxy to measure the short selling...

Fossil energy consumption, carbon emission and agriculture plants are three critical poles of global environmental protection. Thus, the prices of crude oil, carbon emission allowance and agriculture commodity futures should be closely connected for their inherent fundamental nexus and...

The effects of climate policy uncertainty (CPU) on firms' green innovation have not reached a consensus result. Motivated by the research gap, this study explores the moderating mechanism of R&D investment on the linkage between CPU and green innovation and tests the heterogeneity according to...

We propose an aggregate climate change concern index based on several indices from individual sources. In this paper, we define concern as attention to the risk of climate change and the negative consequences associated with that risk. Our results indicate that the aggregate climate change...

This empirical research sheds light on the internal mechanism of government fiscal transparency, media coverage, and the efficiency fiscal expenditures on science & technology (FESTs). Research findings show that fiscal transparency and media coverage have a significant positive effect on the...

We study the effect of power sharing over income redistribution among different socio-economic groups in a model of redistributive politics with fairness concern. We prove that a unique pure-strategy equilibrium exists under fairly general conditions; and we show that equilibrium transfers...

This paper analyzes a non-smooth model of probabilistic voting with two parties and a broad family of other-regarding behavior, including fairness and quasi-maximin preferences, income-dependent altruism, and inequity aversion. The paper provides conditions for equilibrium existence and...