We examine the risk-preparing benefits of Chinese audit firms' professional indemnity insurance (PII) and professional risk fund (PRF) by using the Notice on Adjusting the Application Requirement of Audit Firms for Securities Qualifications as an exogenous shock. This policy requires audit firms...

With the COVID-19 pandemic still raging and the vaccination program still rolling out, there continues to be an immediate need for public health officials to better understand the mechanisms behind the deep and perpetual divide over face masks in America. Using a random sample of Americans...

Purpose - The focus of this paper is to further improve the implementation safeguard measures of the National Plan for Main Functional Zones of Ocean (NPMFZO) based on the implementation status of the national marine main functional area plan after the promulgation of the existing marine...

In this paper, we proposed a model of how corporate acquisition influences industrial performance by exploring industry-level and firm-level ownership characteristics in emerging markets. Based on a database of 1,934 acquisitions of listed firms in China, we examined the relationship between...

Based on the real-world knowledge innovation management characteristics of enterprises, in this paper a novel bilateral matching (BM) decision-making method for knowledge innovation management considering the matching willingness of bilateral enterprises is proposed. The method uses...

The COVID-19 pandemic is unleashing crises of humanity, economy, and finance. Portfolio selection is widely recognized as the foundation of modern financial economics. Therefore, it is naturally crucial and inviting to utilize portfolio selection in order to counter COVID-19 in stock markets. We...

The COVID-19 pandemic is unleashing crises of humanity, economy, and finance. Portfolio selection is widely recognized as the foundation of modern financial economics. Therefore, it is naturally crucial and inviting to utilize portfolio selection in order to counter COVID-19 in stock markets. We...