Previous studies found that through facilitating “bankruptcy remoteness,” asset-backed securitization can reduce firms’ borrowing costs and probabilities of facing credit constraints and increase their market values. However, little research has examined the real effect of securitization...

Investigating a unique large dataset, we find that automobile insurance policyholders are more likely to encounter accidents during the last month of the insurance policy term than during any other month. Our interpretation is that this effect is driven by the sunk cost fallacy held by...

We study wealth management products (WMPs) issued by banks and find higher prices online than offline. The explanation is: banks must charge lower prices at physical branches to compensate customers for traveling costs. The online-offline price gaps decrease with the share of online-banking...

Researchers are accustomed to choose the beginning of the year as the starting point to filter the recent literatures when they retrieve. This paper considers that the custom described above will lead to the Influential Trap which says that papers published at the year-end are less influential...

The incorporation of different types of crop straw may lead to distinct forms and chemical structures of soil organic matter (SOM), which are closely associated with soil microorganisms in agricultural ecosystems. However, the relationship between the SOM physical-chemical compositions and soil...

The cerium-based metal-organic framework UiO-66 (Ce) was examined as a potential adsorbent for the 99 Mo/ 99m Tc generator. The results show that the adsorbent had an outstanding adsorption performance, reaching up to 475 mg/g adsorption capacity at pH 3. The adsorption mechanism was proposed,...

Mechanical characterization by multiscale indentation of dense particle reinforced Ni/Al2O3 metal matrix nanocomposites (MMNC) obtained by high-kinetic processing (HKP) of ball milling of the powders with a systematic variation of alumina nanoparticles fractions (from 1 to 20 vol.%) and spark...