From 2000 to 2010, more than 20 states passed laws that make it easier to use lethal force in self-defense. Elements of these laws include removing the duty to retreat in places outside of one's home, adding a presumption of reasonable belief of imminent harm, and removing civil liability for...

The research perspective of gold is either as a commodity or as a financial asset in most previous research. This paper initially examines the double nature of the price of gold both as a commodity and money from 1969 to 2014 by a statistics model, namely the Ensemble Empirical Mode...

We examine the impact on venture capital (VC) involvement and monitoring on their portfolio companies' corporate social responsibility (CSR) performance. Exploiting the timing of VC exit, we find that CSR performance of VC-backed companies improves after the exit of VC. Using the age of VC funds...

This paper initially analyzes the constitution of gold price by Ensemble Empirical Mode Decomposition (EEMD) with a data span of 1969-2014. We decompose and categorize the change of the gold price by time frequency into three aspects: high frequency portion, low frequency portion and trend...

From 2000 to 2010, more than 20 states passed laws that make it easier to use lethal force in self-defense. Elements of these laws include removing the duty to retreat in places outside of one's home, adding a presumption of reasonable belief of imminent harm, and removing civil liability for...

Stainless steel square tube components with complex spatial shapes are widely used in the fields of vehicles, ships, construction machinery and construction. Due to these components tend to be diversified in shape, the ordinary three-axis free bend-ing technology can not keep up with the...

By introducing the method of "excess" analysis in corporate finance to quantify the fiscal balance in regional economics, this paper analyzes the heterogeneous impact of municipal party secretaries and mayors with military background on local economy development in 281 prefecture-level cities...

As in most other societies, women in China own less wealth than men, which affects their rights and welfare within and beyond the household. Meanwhile, housing assets have constituted the largest share of family wealth after decades of market reforms. Therefore, this study focuses on the...