Suppliers often make proactive investments in capacity to strategically position themselves to win a contract with a monopolist buyer. Such investments reduce the suppliers' variable costs of serving the buyer's demand. We show that an auction mechanism does not always benefit the...

Cold stress is a key factor limiting the yield and quality of non-heading Chinese cabbage. The hydrophilic protective protein LEA plays an important role in plant abiotic stress. In this study, 72 BcLEAs were identified from non-heading Chinese cabbage and divided into 9 subfamilies by...

In this work, magnetic S-doped Fe-Cu-La trimetallic oxides (S-FeCuLaO) was prepared and adopted as a adsorbent to remove Cr(VI) from aqueous solutions. The S-FeCuLaO material was characterized by SEM, XRD, FTIR, XPS and VSM, and batch adsorption experiments were employed to investigate to the...

Using firm-level union membership data for the period of 2002–2016, we show that firms with higher union membership are more likely to engage in real earnings management than accrual-based earnings management, with abnormal production as the dominant form of real earnings management. We...