Securities regulators in China occasionally suspend their IPO market. We explore the impact of IPO market suspension on IPO pricing. We find that IPOs interrupted by market suspensions are eventually priced at a higher level. The positive impact of IPO suspension on IPO offer price is more...

In this article, a blind image watermarking scheme, which is a robust against common image processing and geometric attacks is proposed by adopting the concept of histogram-based embedding. The average filter is employed to low-pass pre-filter the host image. The watermark bits are embedded into...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to illustrate that some enterprise unions in South China, as strategic labor actors, made local progress in collective bargaining, but further elaborates on why gainful bargaining would require a more systematic understanding of the prevailing industrial...