The extension of trading hours for HS 300 index futures (China Shanghai Shenzhen 300 Stock Index Futures or Hushen 300 Index) in China provides an opportunity for examining whether extended futures trading has significant price discovery in exchange-traded fund (ETF) returns during regular...

We investigate “black mouth” in the Chinese stock market, which is a form of manipulation based on disinformation, and examine how investors react to such behavior and its underlying impact mechanism. Black mouth temporarily leads to abnormal investor attention and triggers an abnormal stock...

The great habitat heterogeneity is a crucial contributor to the high species richness (SR) in karst forests. Yet, the driving factor behind the alterations in SR patterns during natural recovery remains unclear. In this study, forest dynamics plots were established along the natural restoration...

Soil carbon (C) cycling is mainly mediated by microorganisms. Natural restoration projects have been widely implemented in the degraded karst areas of southwest China. However, their impacts on the functional genes and microbial communities involved in soil C cycling have not been well...

Public emergencies although will typically reduce the total social welfare, it may force enterprises to seek innovation. Based on a simple game-theoretic model, we argue that the motivation of accelerating the advanced technology adoption decreases with firms’ initial technology endowment,...

The financial statement (FS) fraud detection framework proposed in this paper, PeerMeta, makes improvements in all three aspects of learning processes: the selection of research samples, feature set, and detection model. For the research samples, prior studies are based on FS fraud events that...

In this paper, we investigate jump spillover effects of five energy (petroleum) futures and their implications for diversification benefits. In order to identify the latent historical jumps for each of these energy futures, we use a Bayesian MCMC approach to estimate a jump-diffusion model for...

Background: Entrepreneur was the key factor of venture capital-backed star-ups, and control rights serve as an important incentive to attract entrepreneurs' human capital investment.Objective: In this article, we investigate the ways in which the specificity and exclusiveness of entrepreneurs'...