Syndication among venture capital firms (VCFs) is increasingly prevailing in recent years, especially in emerging markets like China. Some of the VCFs have to syndicate with “worse performers” despite the “better performer preference”. The primary aim of this article is to contribute to...

We examine the impact of uncertainty on employment dynamics. Alternative measures of uncertainty are constructed based on the survey of professional forecasters, and regressionbased forecasting models for GDP growth, inflation, S&P500 stock price index, and fuel prices. Our results indicate that...

Hot-electron-induced CO2 hydrogenation is a promising pathway for solar-to-chemical energy conversion under mild conditions. Herein, we designed a unique “antenna–reactor” architecture with surface alloyed Au@AuRu plasmonic nanoparticles (NPs) loaded on g-C3N4 (Au@AuRu/g-C3N4) to achieve...