Due to uncertainties regarding quality in terms of both product and seller, information asymmetry is a significant problem for consumers in the online marketplace. Online sellers are keen to improve their sales by highlighting quality signals such as price, reputation, and e-WOM. In traditional...

Jensen and Meckling (1976) claim that by facilitating monitoring of firms’ activities, security analysis by financial analysts can reduce agency costs between management and external capital providers, and thereby increase shareholder value. Additionally, boards are required to design...

How do firms adapt to the risks posed by climate change? Many studies have considered business adaptation to short-term shocks and business cycles, but few have investigated risks that resemble those posed by climate change: long-term, systemic, and irreversible. In this paper, I build a novel...

Development of aqueous electrolytes in anodic electrochemical (EC) exfoliation is regarded as the preferred choice to prepare single or few layered graphene. Generally, in diluted aqueous electrolytes, however, the uncontrollable decomposition of water often provides excess driving forces,...

Acrylate copolymers were successfully prepared by simple free radical polymerization. Acrylate copolymers are used as a functional filler in epoxy composite coatings. The epoxy groups in acrylate copolymers improve their dispersion and compatibility in the coatings, and their hydrogen bond...

The literature examining the relation between CEOs’ total compensation and earnings management is inconclusive, likely due to unobserved determinants of executive compensation. Our study provides new conclusive evidence on this relation by exploring abnormal compensation, the proportion of pay...