Essays on the political economy of mass media and representation by Shen, Yan Shun

“…Using returns from the House elections and county-level measures of the interest in the movement from Twitter data, this paper finds the expected advantage for Democratic women candidates and a disadvantage for the Republican men candidates, but only in those counties with high existing Republican support.…”
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Three essays on empirical finance by Hu, Xiaoxiong

“…I find that municipalities in Democratic leaning states and counties are more inclined to issue green municipal bonds than those in Republican leaning states and counties. There is not consistently significant “greenium” for green bonds issued in Democratic leaning states and counties, but there is significant pricing discount for green bonds issued in Republican leaning states and counties. …”
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Ideological and poetological tensions : inventing modern Chinese poetry through British Romanticism, 1917-1933 by Yan, Hanjin

“…This study examines the rewriting of British Romanticism by prominent Chinese poets in the early republican era as part of their effort to construct or invent modern Chinese poetry, i.e. …”
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