The purpose of this study is to deepen our understanding of government directors' impact on firm performance. This study strives to answer whether government directors have different effects on accounting- and market-based performance. To correct for the endogeneity of government directors...

Recently, various environmental problems have been generated with the rapid economic development in China. That's because China currently over-emphasized economic development beyond environmental issues; therefore, now it is important to enforce optimal environmental policies in order to achieve...

Increasing scarcity of freshwater resources and growing environmental awareness give rise to the use of reclaimed wastewater as an additional source of water supply. However, the amount of wastewater that can be reclaimed for reuse is subject to many factors, ranging from technical possibility...

The structural modeling of open-high-low-close (OHLC) data contained within the candlestick chart is crucial to fnancial practice. However, the inherent constraints in OHLC data pose immense challenges to its structural modeling. Models that fail to process these constraints may yield results...

As the distribution strategy, the bundle and add-on strategy has been widely applied to sell the base goods and add-on goods in retail markets. Meanwhile, the rapid growth of e-commerce has also forced more platforms to participate in the above strategies. Motivated by these, we consider three...