Our research provides a novel perspective by examining the effect of both economic factors and non-economic factors such as place image on business location decisions. This paper expands the extant theory and practice by identifying and considering in addition to the economic factors, place...

In the wake of Global Finance Crisis (GFC), the world economy felt an immediate adjustment of the risk - the risk premia on interbank borrowing and corporate bonds increased. Amid crisis, the emerging market economies were thought to be cloistered from the immediate contagion. But, lower export...

Opportunistic Networks (OppNets) is gaining popularity day-by-day due to their various applications in the real-life world. The two major reasons for its popularity are its suitability to be established without any requirement of additional infrastructure and the ability to tolerate long delays...

From fantasy football to virtual professors, the Internet is a key concept in marketing education — and the learning process. This literature review and gap analysis investigates the recent publications concerning the Internet and marketing education in The Journal of Marketing Education. The...

We examine how ownership by couples affects risk taking in family firms. We find that firms co-owned by couples exhibit significantly lower stock return volatility. This result is robust to a difference-in-differences approach based on a smaller sample and an instrumental variable approach....

This paper examines the relation between audit market competition and audit quality. We use the staggered introduction of bullet trains in China as shocks to travel time between audit clients and prospective audit firms, which increases the threat of competition for incumbent audit firms. Using...

Using proprietary data of all high-tech incubators in China, we study a new approach by government to implement industrial policy through market intermediaries instead of directly allocating resources. Exploiting a highly localized industrial policy that targets different ``strategic emerging...

The terrestrial ecosystem is the largest carbon pool in the world, and it is crucial to achieve China’s carbon neutrality goal by effectively removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. This study used provincial panel data from 2004 to 2020 and a spatial Durbin model to explore the...

Using the regulation-induced initial public offering (IPO) suspensions in China as shocks that distract venture capitalists (VCs) from their other portfolio companies because they must pay attention to the suspended firms, we identify the reduced impact of their monitoring role on other...