Purpose The aim of this study is to investigate the impact local political uncertainty on asymmetric cost behavior (i.e. stickiness) for listed firms in China. Design/methodology/approach In study, authors manually collect turnover data prefecture-city officials as a measure exogenous fluctuations and obtain firm-level financial information from China Stock Market Accounting Research (CSMAR) da...

Among mainstream academic economists and policymakers, the leading alternative to the real business cycle theory is the New Keynesian model. Whereas the real business cycle model features monetary neutrality and emphasizes that there should be no active stabilization policy by governments, the New Keynesian model builds in a friction that generates monetary non-neutrality and gives rise to a we...

Stickiness of sugar solutions causes problems in various food products and operations. In this study, the effects glucose syrup type (dextrose equivalent) crystalline particles on stickiness with water contents from 10 to 20% were determined. Four different corn syrups varying dextrose equivalence (DE) used determine polysaccharide distribution stickiness. The (zirconium oxide beads (Zr2O3), fo...

Abstract Adhesion between an elastic body and a smooth, rigid substrate can lead to large tensile stresses them. However, most macroscopic objects are microscopically rough, which strongly suppresses adhesion. A fierce debate has unfolded recently as whether local or global parameters determine the crossover small Here, we report simulations revealing that dependence of pull-off force F n on su...

Cluster, correlation, and multivariate regression analyses were used to rationalize the effects of grain composition, starch fine structure, and leaching characteristics on cooked rice texture (hardness and stickiness). The head rice grain composition of 23 U.S. long-grain cultivars was evaluated in terms of apparent amylose content, crude protein, and surface lipids. Starch samples were prepar...