Using a two-period model of a commodity market with a large number of atomistic consumers and two strategic sellers, we show that a speculator with access to storage can lower the market price while buying and raise the price while selling by clever use of limit, stop-loss, and market orders....

Asset growth factor (AG) – the return on a portfolio that is long in shares of low asset growth firms and short in shares of high asset growth firms - is an economy-wide pervasive risk factor in the widely used Fama and French (2015) five-factor model (FF5) and in the Hou, Xue, and Zhang...

After China launched the Belt and Road Initiative in 2013, the Chinese government has invested over 1200 infrastructure projects in countries along the Belt and Road, and nearly 10% of the projects have failed or been delayed. China has also concluded free trade agreements with many countries...