A research paper titled Short-term Credit and Bidirectional Rent-seeking between Banks and Firms: Evidence and Formation Mechanism was published in the 9th issue of the Journal of Economic Research in 2024. The paper was co-authored by Associate Professor Liu Jingjian from School of Economics and Management, Dalian University of Technology (corresponding author), Professor Wang Zhenshan and his doctoral student Li Huizhu from School of Finance, Dongbei University of Finance and Economics.

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