We explore whether and how liquidity factors influence risk transfers between commodity and stock markets using a composite liquidity index and five different types of liquidity measures. We find that liquidity shocks, including both funding liquidity and market liquidity, are positively...

Models of political risk predict that increases in political uncertainty cause stock prices to fall, especially for politically sensitive firms. We use the event of the Bo Xilai political scandal in 2012 in China as an exogenous shock to identify the impact of political uncertainty on asset...

The work functions of (001) and (00-1) surfaces of B4C are investigated with density functional theory and symmetry slab model. These two surfaces are found to be almost nonpolarized and their work functions are 5.15 eV and 5.46 eV, respectively.