We study whether mandatory carbon reporting reduces the selective disclosure of favorable versus unfavorable environmental information. Our setting is a regulation mandating firms to report carbon emissions, or mandatory carbon reporting (MCR). Measuring selective disclosure as the difference...

Effective Leadership and Cross-Cultural Variation -- German and Chinese Culture and Leadership -- Learning Approaches for Leadership Development Programs -- Impact of Leadership Development Programs -- Multi-Perspective Rating -- A Global Leadership Development Program.

Globally, many inland lakes are shrinking due to water scarcity. In some arid regions, reduced runoff from irrigated agriculture is a leading contributing factor to lake shrinkage. As inland lakes contract, playa dust emissions from receding shorelines create regional air quality problems with...

This study employed the gravity model of trade to examine how political relations have impacted international trade in the Chinese context, specifically by incorporating China’s political relations with its major trading partners. Using data from China’s trading partner countries obtained...

This study aimed to investigate the optimal controlling strategy for hydrolytic acidification (HA) of rice straw (RS) by domesticated paddy soil microbes (DPSM) and CH 4 yield of hydrolysate in liquid anaerobic digestion (L-AD). The suitable conditions for HA of RS were carbon/nitrogen ratio...

Rice straw (RS) is treated by straw biogas anaerobic digestion (AD) technology to reduce pollution, but RS anaerobic gas production technology has some problems such as low gas production rate, slow digestion speed, and long digestion period. Domesticated paddy soil microbes (DPSM) is an...

China’s hog market faces the challenge of several external shocks, which arise from the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, African Swine Fever (ASF) and related global trade uncertainties. This article develops a shocks, cycles and adjustments (SCA) model to evaluate the dynamic impact of different...

The newly launched water futures market faces a serious illiquidity problem with scarce trading volume. We examine the causes of the illiquidity based on the futures contract design literature and empirical analysis of spot water markets in the western United States. The primary cause of...