When managing multiple stores in the same marketplace, retailers need to select store locations and localize product assortments to reflect the demand of each community it serves. This paper develops a dynamic system, called the dual Poisson-Gamma Dynamic Systems (dPGDS), for panel data on...

This paper examines whether sell-side analysts struggle to cope with macroeconomic uncertainty. We find that analysts issue more accurate earnings forecasts when facing higher economic policy uncertainty, which conflicts with the conclusions in the US. We provide a novel explanation for this...

This study examines firm-level political risk and its role in influencing corporate innovation. We analyze four dimensions of innovation: patent output, quality, radicalness, and efficiency, based on a sample of US-listed firms from 2001 to 2020. We find a negative effect on patent output and...

We investigate the nonlinear effects of real estate uncertainty shocks and the role of financial conditions in the U.S. over the business cycle. We employ a logistic smooth transition vector autoregressive (LSTVAR) model and identify uncertainty shocks using the short-run restriction. The...

Tris(2-chloroethyl) phosphate (TCEP), a substitute for bromide flame retardants, is frequently detected in aqueous environments. Previous studies proved anions affect TCEP pseudo-first-order degradation constants ( kobs ) based on sulfate radical-based advanced oxygen processes (SR-AOPs), they...

Highlights• A novel phosphorus-containing pyrazolyl derivate (DPAP) was synthesized and used as highly efficient flame-retardant for EP resin.• The curing EP with only 5.0 wt% of DPAP can pass UL94 V-0 rating and possess LOI value as high as 32.6%.• The curing EP with 10 wt% of DPAP...

It was a challenge to prepare nickel phyllosilicate with high catalytic activity using biomass-based silica as substrate due to the low Ni content. In order to efficiently utilize the abundant silanol group in silica-contained biomass, the acid-treated rice husk without calcination (P-R) was...