This study investigates how regulatory ability and banking market structure affect explicit deposit insurance scheme (eDIS) adoption and banks' risk taking under eDIS. We find that:(i) The regulatory ability exists a threshold if the government regulator's regulatory ability above the threshold,...

This paper examines the impact of leadership transition on government expenditure, particularly the composition of the expenditure. Using the Chinese provincial-level data during the period 1992-2006, we find that the transition of provincial leaders seems to have no significant effect on...

Through systematic studies of pro- and anti-blood coagulation factors, we have determined molecular mechanisms involving two genetic elements, age-related stability element (ASE), GAGGAAG and age-related increase element (AIE), a unique stretch of dinucleotide repeats (AIE). ASE and AIE are...