The current study provides novel evidence about the informativeness of insider trading in Taiwan. We investigate comprehensive trading records by corporate insiders from Taiwan during the period between 1992 and 2006. Unlike evidence from some Western markets, we find s...

In China, the definition of domestic violence is usually limited to direct physical and mental harm to family members. About a quarter of Chinese families have been reportedly affected by domestic ...

Advertising in mainland China is increasing rapidly, but there is little published information on who the major advertisers are. This study reports the results of an analysis of the advertising that appeared during a selected week in October 1985. TV commercials were vi...

Abstract Rationale: Foreign body (FB) aspiration in adults is occasionally encountered. The aspiration and impaction of a coin in the lower respiratory tract is an unusual accident. This report presents 2 rare adult cases of FB aspiration with coin impaction in larynx a...

This paper studies how the extreme price co-movement of commodity futures indicates industrial production (IP) growth. In this regard, we model synchronized movements and large price changes into one measure by characterizing upside and downside price extremes. We find ...

The purpose of this article is to select 12 countries/regions (China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Australia, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, New Zealand, the Philippines, South Korea, Singapore, and Thailand) for quarterly data (2008Q1–2018Q4) analysis using panel–ARDL model with Ba...

The key findings about China’s industrial economy in 2017 Q3 are as follows: 1. Although the Business Sentiment Index in the third quarter indicated a slight contraction, the industrial economy has shown signs of recovery. 2. Costs continued to rise significantly. 3. Ov...

In this note we consider independent site percolation in a disordered triangulation of \(\mathbb {R}^2\) given by adding one of the two possible diagonals to each face of the usual graph \(\mathbb {Z}^2\). The natural conjecture is that \(p_c={1}/{2}\) for every such gr...