A firm can finance investment either by borrowing or by drawing on cash balances, so that financial asset and liability changes tend to have opposite signs. In contrast, financial intermediaries borrow in order to lend, so that financial asset and liability changes have the same sign. Large non-financial firms in China and India behave like intermediaries rather than textbook non-financial firm...

Automatic program synthesis is a long-lasting dream in software engineering. Recently, promising Deep Learning (DL) based solution, called Copilot, has been proposed by OpenAI and Microsoft as an industrial product. Although some studies evaluate the correctness of Copilot solutions report its issues, more empirical evaluations are necessary to understand how developers can benefit from it effe...