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Using the data of Chinese publically traded firms, we examine the relationship between managerial overconfidence and firm expansion and find that managerial overconfidence is positively correlated with the rate of firm expansion. In particular, overconfident managers tend to internally expand firms in an aggressive manner. Also a negative, though not statistically significant, relationship exists...
This paper examines the impacts of informal and formal institutions on the efficiency of credit resource allocation in the emerging market from the perspective of political connections and marketization. Based on the data of non-state owned listed companies in China, we find that as an informal institution, Political relationship helps companies to obtain more long-term loans. However, from a social...
As a traditional agricultural country, shortage of water resource has been a critical issue for China. Intelligent irrigation is a promising solution to improve the irrigation efficiency. ZigBee is an emerging wireless communication technology based on IEEE 802.15.4, which has been widely applied in commercial, industrial, medical and agricultural areas. There are many merits to use ZigBee for agricultural...
The importance of traditional arts lies on its profound social meaning and some certain psychological accumulation, and it has been kept pursuiting beauty in the course of history. Chinese traditional art is broad and profound. Now the introduction of new idea and thinking pattern provides us a broader view to re-examine traditional art, and the new technology and material also give more possibilities...
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