Silicon is a promising anode material that can considerably increase the energy density of lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) owing to its high theoretical capacity and low cost. However, its huge volume changes and low electrical conductivity damage the structural stability of the material and reduce...

By introducing expressive voting in the Downs-Hotelling model and allowing voters to abstain from elections, this paper illustrates that low ideological motivation to vote will induce divergent ideologies among candidates because candidates need extreme ideologies to attract extreme voters....

We use Taiwanese trade data from 2009 to 2012 to examine the impacts of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Mutual Recognition Arrangement for Conformity Assessment of Telecommunications Equipment on trade. The results show that Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Mutual Recognition Arrangement...

type="main" xml:lang="en" <p>Whether or not politics cause changes in monetary policy is controversial in the literature. This article re-examines the link between politics and regime shifts in monetary policy using two alternative approaches. First, empirical results show that both the...</p>