In recent years, China has encouraged the development of micro and small enterprises through inclusive finance, while it has tightened lendings to real estates. It is debatable whether monetary policy can be relaxed for one industry and tightened for another, concerning possible arbitrage. This...

Stainless steel (SS)/carbon steel (CS) clad plates were prepared by liquid-solid (L-S) bonding followed by hot rolling under different reduction rates, and the microstructure characteristics at the cladding interface zone and their influences on the interfacial bonding strength of the SS/CS clad...

Glass frits, as a critical ingredient, plays an important role in silver paste and determine sintering properties of the silive paste and contact quality with silicon solar cells. Here glass frits with different contents of TeO 2 additive were prepared and used to investigate the sintering...

We construct daily house price indices for ten major U.S. metropolitan areas. Our calculations are based on a comprehensive database of several million residential property transactions and a standard repeat-sales method that closely mimics the methodology of the popular monthly Case-Shiller...

The carbide slag is an industrial waste from chlor-alkali plants, which can be used to capture CO2 in the calcium looping cycles, i.e. carbonation/calcination cycles. In this work, the cycled carbide slag from the calcium looping cycles for CO2 capture was proposed to remove HCl in the flue gas...

The effect of the presence of HCl on cyclic CO2 capture behavior of calcium-based sorbent in the calcium looping process was investigated. When HCl was present in the carbonation atmosphere, the effects of carbonation temperature, calcination temperature, HCl concentration and particle size on...

This paper examines the relationship between employee turnover, HRM practices and innovation in Chinese firms in five high technology sectors. We estimate hurdle negative binomial models for count data on survey data allowing for analyses of the extensive as well as intensive margins of firms'...

Do specialists exit the firm increasingly outsourcing its research and development (R&D) work? Although this question is critical in understanding how R&D outsourcing links to innovation performance, the answer is not yet clear. This paper proposes that the optimal level of firm’s internal...