This paper uses disaggregated trade data to assess how the expansion of China''s production capacity and its changing production structure may be affecting its trade linkages with other countries. It finds that China is moving away from traditional assembly operations in its processing...

Controlling the shape, morphology, and porosity of hollow nanostructures is a pivotal issue for adjusting the characteristics of tailor-made nanomaterials to expand their application to more fields. Although many hollow metal oxides have been developed, studies on the construction of hollow...

To better satisfy various stakeholders, firms are seeking integrated practices that can enhance their sustainability performance, also well known as the Triple Bottom Line (3BL). The fashion industry exhibits potential conflicts with the spirit of sustainability because of the waste created by...

We estimate a non-parametric stochastic discount factor (SDF) from a set of portfolios, then test whether excluding a portfolio changes the implied SDF. Though related to traditional asset pricing tests, our approach has several advantages: we test all portfolios jointly and can incorporate...