This paper examines how regulation functions in China’s dynamic authoritarian setting through the study of changes in political and social influences on environmental enforcement in Guangzhou city between 2000 and 2006. The paper finds that a form of 'decentered regulation' has developed in...

Regional economic power and local environmental policies have a substantial impact on pollution reduction in urban agglomerations (UAs); however, whether megacities in UAs exert spillover effects of pollution reduction on surrounding cities remains unknown. This study presents a causal analytic...

In this article we review the literature on the recent growth of corporate debt in China, and present stylized facts on the evolution of debt composition, non-performing loans, defaults, and bankruptcy filings. We then describe the legal and political institutions that characterize the system...

This research investigates whether and how board independence influences corporate investment decisions in a Seemingly Unrelated Regression (SUR) framework, where the capital investment and the research and development (R&D) investment are examined simultaneously. We argue that the free cash...

The construction industry consumes a significant amount of resources. It is an urgent need to promote green building (GB) practices . Aimed at solving the problem of energy-saving, propaganda and government subsidy strategies in the green building supply chain (GBSC), a differential game model...

The oxidation of graphene-based material (i.e. graphite, graphene) is a reaction of immense importance owing to its extensive industrial application (i.e. nanocomposites, flame retardants, energy storage). Although immense experimental works were carried out for identifying the thermal...

Lithium-sulfur batteries (LSBs) have been regarded as a prospective candidate for next-generation late-model energy storage device due to their merits in gravimetric/ volumetric capacity. However, the practical use of lithium-sulfur batteries is still severely limited by the shuttle behavior and...