Employing linear and non-linear techniques for assessing the relationship between ESG factors and future returns and risks on an out-of-sample basis, we find that the best and worst quintile portfolios ranked on their ESG scores were statistically significant in generating alpha and reducing...

We analyze the sequence of time intervals between consecutive stock trades of thirty companies representing eight sectors of the U. S. economy over a period of four years. For all companies we find that: (i) the probability density function of intertrade times may be fit by a Weibull...

The NYSE and NASDAQ stock markets have very different structures and there is continuing controversy over whether differences in stock price behaviour are due to market structure or company characteristics. As the influence of market structure on stock prices may be obscured by exogenous factors...

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Enzymatic hydrolysis is considered to be a restricted step for lignocellulosic bioethanol production at an industrial scale for its high production costs and low efficiency. In this study, a microreactor loaded with cellulase based on co-deposition of dopamine (DA) and polyethyleneimine (PEI)...

An increased energy recovery efficiency can be obtained from biomass waste due to coupling hydrothermal carbonation (HTC) with anaerobic digestion (AD). This study focused on optimizing the total energy yield (TEY) from sewage sludge (SS) and pinewood sawdust (PS) in co-HTC-AD coupling process,...