This paper develops an equilibrium modeling framework that captures the interactions among availability of public charging opportunities, prices of electricity, and destination and route choices of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) at regional transportation and power transmission...

This paper investigates whether executives with media background influence the engagement of corporate social responsibility (CSR) in China. By examining Chinese listed companies from 2010 to 2017, this paper finds that companies with media background executives own higher CSR scores and better...

The burgeoning application of probabilistic selling (PS) in the retail industry spawns resale markets for component products, motivating investigation of the impact of resale markets on PS. In line with practice (e.g., Pop Mart), our basic model focuses on pure PS in which only probabilistic...

Corporate bonds carry a premium of extreme illiquidity (EIL). This premium permeates all rating categories and heightens in times of stress and periods with high uncertainty. EIL has predictive power in the cross-section for future returns up to at least a one-year horizon. Active investors like...

Lime has been widely applied for ameliorating soil acidification, potentially improving soil fertility and crop production. However, the effects of long-term liming and its interaction with carbon (C) availability on the emission and temperature sensitivity (Q10) of N2O from acidic arable soils...

As a high-performance reinforcing material, carbon fiber (C f ) has a high anisotropy, so its distribution in the matrix has a significant impact on the Thermal conductivity (TC) of the Fe-based composite. In this study, TC in the radial direction of C f -Cu was corrected by the TC calculation...

Based on the unique corporate ownership structure in China, we document that although firms tend to release corporate social responsibility (CSR) reports to convey that they are acting in the broader interests of society, those with inherently higher legitimacy (local government-owned firms) are...