The current expansion of China's venture capital (VC) market has chugged into its 10th year in 2019. The mystery of developing from nothing to the second largest market in the world yet fails to make China's VC market more attractive to researchers in this field. Our chapter is attempting to...

Patent infringement lawsuits have been rising at an alarming rate since 2009 in the US. With immense attention being attracted to the sufferings of the targeted firms, the reactions of their unlitigated peers are quite under-researched. Our study sets out to fill the gap by exploring the...

This first edition of ‘The ASEAN Access to Digital Finance Study’, aims to provide valuable data and insights into how individual households, consumers, and micro, small and medium enterprise (MSME) customers use digital alternative finance channels, such as online digital lending and...

This paper proposes a simple and efficient estimation procedure for the model with non-ignorable missing data studied by Morikawa and Kim (2016). Their semiparametrically efficient estimator requires explicit non- parametric estimation and so suffers from the curse of dimensionality and requires...

This paper presents a weighted optimization framework that unifies the binary, multivalued, and continuous treatment - as well as mixture of discrete and continuous treatment - under a unconfounded treatment assignment. With a general loss function, the framework includes the average, quantile,...