Additive manufacturing (AM) has attracted significant attention in recent years based on its wide range of applications and growing demand. AM offers the advantages of production flexibility and design freedom. In this study, we considered a practical variant of the batch-processing-machine...

This paper examines the rationality of the residential housing market. We adopt a proprietary dataset covering China's first-tier cities from 2009 to 2016 that consists of project-level rents and repeated selling prices and identify investors' “underreaction” phenomenon to the cash flow...

Some U.S. local governments are leveraging public procurement to meet their sustainability goals. However, does the simultaneous pursuit of multiple sustainability objectives potentially slow down the speed of procurement processes? We suggest that the simultaneous pursuit of multiple...

We investigate the value-growth premium puzzle by merging insights from urban economics and finance that relate firm location to its stock performance. The value-growth premium in locations with high historical house price appreciation is 3.6% larger per year than the premium in areas that...

The South Korean Ministry of Environment, Korea Environmental Industry and Technology Institute, Ministry of Economy and Finance, and Public Procurement Service are working collaboratively to promote green purchasing policies across all levels of South Korean government. A primary reason for...

In 2019, the Spanish government published a Presidential Order approving the General State Administration’s Green Public Procurement Plan. This plan covers all public administrations including the General State Administration, its autonomous bodies, and social security management entities. Its...

This study provides evidence of informational efficiency in the housing market, where prices fully incorporate available information. We use Amazon's progressive disclosure of its new headquarters locations in Virginia and New York to distinguish changes in the public's knowledge. Using a...

Heterostructured materials as a new class of materials have excellent mechanical properties due to hetero-deformation induced (HDI) strengthening and hardening. However, how do heterostructural parameters affect the evolution of geometrically necessary dislocations (GNDs) and HDI stress remains...

Italy was the first European country to create a full mandatory plan known as the National Action Plan on Green Public Procurement. This plan established a framework through which green purchasing polices can diffuse throughout Italian municipalities. A primary reason for this action is that...