While analyst earnings forecasts are crucial earnings benchmarks in equity valuation, existing studies provide no consensus on whether the market rewards firms for beating analyst earnings expectations. Using a sample of 9,898 firm-year observations from 1,821 unique Chinese listed firms over...

In this study, for the first time, seawater hydrothermal (SH) pretreatment combining subsequent electrogenerated alkaline hydrogen peroxide (EAHP) pretreatment was proposed to achieve an effective fractionation of corn stover into high value-added products. During SH pretreatment, complex ions...

Due to the curse of dimensionality, solving high dimensional parabolic partial differential equations (PDEs) has been a challenging problem for decades. Recently, a weak adversarial network (WAN) proposed in (Y.Zang et al., 2020) offered a flexible and computationally efficient approach to...

Dye-sensitized upconversion nanoparticles (UCNPs) have gained significant interests in biological applications. However, previous attempts to utilize these dye-sensitized UCNPs in aqueous environment suffer from dramatic decline of the upconversion luminescence (UCL) intensity and problems with...

Increasing the operating voltage of Ni-rich cathode materials is a highly promising route to achieve lithium-ion batteries with a high energy density. However, the unstable electrode-electrolyte interface (EEI) caused by the decomposition of carbonate-based electrolytes at high voltage is a...

We examine the effectiveness of institutional investors in constraining aggressive earnings management induced by strong contractual incentives. To this end we focus on the consequences of earnings-related promises (covenants) negotiated between corporate controlling shareholders and minority...

Using a large international sample of 24,293 observations from 3,991 unique firms in 56 countries, we examine the role of financial analysts in the relationship between voluntary corporate social responsibility (CSR) reporting and firm value. We find that after controlling for firms’ CSR...