* NUS Business School, National University of Singapore. Ivan Png thanks the Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College, for warmly hosting a visit during which this study began. We thank Jim Pooley, Lu Yi Davin Chor, Lee Fleming, Paul Wolfson as well as other NUS and Dartmouth colleagues, and audiences at Harvard Law School, Stanford Law School, Yale Law School, the NBER Productivity Lunch, DR...

This paper investigates the impact of the US and China’s foreign aids to Africa on trade flows between donor and recipient countries. Evidence from the gravity model estimates reveals that the two donors’ exports are strengthened by their aids to African partners. Interestingly, China’s aid shows a positive effect on its total volume of trade and imports from Africa, while the aid from the US e...

The proteins of the Ets family are transcription factors involved in signal transduction, cell cycle progression, and differentiation. In this study, we report that thyroid cell neoplastic transformation is associated with a dramatic increase in ETS transcriptional activity, which is dependent on the accumulation of Ets-1, Ets-2, and other Ets-related proteins. Inhibition of ETS transactivation...

The concept of secrecy calls to mind a dyadic interaction: one person hiding a secret from another during a conversation or social interaction. The current work, however, demonstrates that this aspect of secrecy is rather rare. Taking a broader view of secrecy as the intent to conceal information, which only sometimes necessitates concealment, yields a new psychology of secrecy. Ten studies dem...

The concept of secrecy calls to mind a dyadic interaction: one person hiding a secret from another during a conversation or social interaction. The current work, however, demonstrates that this aspect of secrecy is rather rare. Taking a broader view of secrecy as the intent to conceal information, which only sometimes necessitates concealment, yields a new psychology of secrecy. Ten studies dem...

Motivated by typo correction in password authentication, we investigate cryptographic error-correction of secrets in settings where the distribution of secrets is a priori (approximately) known. We refer to this as the distribution-sensitive setting. We design a new secure sketch called the layer-hiding hash (LHH) that offers the best security to date. Roughly speaking, we show that LHH saves a...

Abstract In the area of international policy to mitigate climate change, forest has been important in achieving objectives liable countries. The Emissions Trading System New Zealand (NZ ETS) is only case an ETS integrating forestry as a mandatory actor. This result prolonged political discussions and characteristics forestry. Forest landowners are surrender allowances for deforestation can pote...

Carbon leakage is a major concern for policymakers involved with environmental initiatives such as the European Union’s emissions trading scheme and similar capand-trade proposals in the United States, Australia, and elsewhere. This paper provides a framework for understanding the drivers underlying carbon leakage at the level of an individual sector in which only a subset of …rms is covered by...