In September 2013, the Chinese government approved establishing Shanghai Pilot Free Trade Zone (SPFTZ), the first Pilot Free Trade Zone (PFTZ) in the country. SPFTZ mainly implements policy and institutional innovation, aiming to extend reform and opening-up, generate the dividends of reform,...

This paper aims to demonstrate that the government's focus has a significant influence on the effectiveness of implementing climate change mitigation policies. This paper analyzes two mitigation actions implemented in Shanghai, within the context of three guidelines for effective policy...

This paper investigates the localized and short-term effects of COVID-19-induced lockdowns on Shanghai's rental market in the second half of 2022. Using Difference-in-Differences methodologies, we find that rental prices declined by 1.5% following the lockdowns on average, with areas...

This year’s Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in Tianjin marked the largest gathering in the organisation’s history, drawing more than 20 heads of state and 10 representatives of international organisations. At the SCO+ session, China’s Head of State and Party Leader Xi...

Social aging significantly impacts household energy consumption patterns and demand, particularly in megacities like Shanghai. This study addresses the gap in understanding high-frequency impacts of aging on energy use by employing advanced machine learning techniques. Using Gaussian Mixture...

In conducting an extensive examination, we scrutinize the efficacy of algorithmic trading strategies applied to Futures CopperMainContinuous in the Shanghai Futures Exchange, utilizing a comprehensive data set spanning from January 2020 to December 2022. To mitigate the potential risk of...

The pathways to achieving carbon neutrality at the city level are diverse due to varying energy supply and demand conditions. Shanghai faces obstacles such as limited land resources, high costs of renewable energy technologies, and instability of renewable energy. These challenges hinder the...

This paper investigates the co-movements of oil prices and the exchange rates of 10 top oil-importing and oil-exporting countries. Firstly, we estimated the total static spillover index based on vector autoregressive (VAR) models. Secondly, we adopted the recent DCC-GARCH-CONNECTEDNESS approach...

This paper investigates the co-movements of oil prices and the exchange rates of 10 top oil-importing and oil-exporting countries. Firstly, we estimated the total static spillover index based on vector autoregressive (VAR) models. Secondly, we adopted the recent DCC-GARCH-CONNECTEDNESS approach...

Despite the continuous expansion of trade and investment agreements between China and South Korea, little is known about the distribution of benefits and losses stemming from synergy and competition at the regional level. This paper aims to investigate the complementary and competitive...

In the context of technological progress and economic transition, the urban spatial structure has consistently undergone dynamic evolution. However, the trajectories of polycentric patterns display significant national and regional variations. It is crucial to examine the dynamic evolution of...

"Rapid urbanization and increasing demand for efficient public transportation have highlighted the need to understand public perceptions of service quality. Traditional evaluation methods may not fully capture user experiences and perceptions, and the emerging large-scale social media data...

Previous studies on green bonds (GBs) in China have not extensively analyzed how investor characteristics such as demographic background and environmental concerns affect Chinese investors' decisions to invest in GBs. Therefore, these aspects should be examined to understand the GB market and...

This paper investigates the selection criteria and success factors of retailers within mixed-use developments in Shanghai, from the 2009 financial crisis to the COVID-19 pandemic. By using Multiple Criteria Decision Making focused on three groups of key performance indicators: External,...

Chapter 1: Approaching China’s “Artificial intelligence development highland” -- Chapter 2: Artificial intelligence in the public sector in Shanghai: conceptualization, context, and capacity -- Chapter 3: The AI policy environment of Shanghai -- Chapter 4: The AI ecosystem of Shanghai --...

This study explores and models the 'opening price difference rate' of the Shanghai Stock Exchange Composite Index through exploratory data analysis and forecasting. The findings indicate that the hybrid models, ARIMA-LSTM and ARIMA-GRU, are better able to capture the trend and volatility of the...

The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic caused numerous lockdowns in cities around the world. While lockdowns can generally be effective at reducing the spread of COVID-19, they also have substantial psychosocial impacts, such as causing distress and anxiety among residents. However, our knowledge...

It is increasingly emphasized that firms' innovation depends on external knowledge interaction in the field of economic geography. Global knowledge linkages and interaction plays crucial role in gaining competitive advantage for firms in developing countries because of their immature innovation...

This paper investigates a newly-found solar term anomaly (effect) in China Shanghai Index as a supplementary to the existing literature of traditional calender effects. Based on a regression framework, the paper analyzes the solar term effect from multiple aspects: inter-solar-term analysis,...

Aim: The main goal is to examine the role of perceived risk in determining customers' willingness to purchase fresh food online. Research methods: Data were collected through an online survey. Respondents were recruited via a call on online platforms. A total of 287 fresh food e-commerce...

Political, economic, and social factors that impede the diffusion of residential solar photovoltaics (RSPV) are at the frontline of academic research in renewable energy development because solar PV has rapidly become cost-benefit effective relative to traditional energy. Using Shanghai for our...

This article studies the short- and long-run economic consequences of the now-extinct Shanghai tramway system. Geo-locating the tramway lines on both historical cadastral maps and current Google maps, I sort land parcels in the 1900s–1910s, and residential complexes in 2018, into treatment and...

(1) Tourism Industry is still in a Golden Period of Development On October 18, 2017, General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out in the report of the Nineteenth National Congress of the Communist Party that socialism with Chinese characteristics has entered a new era. Tourism is the first of the...

Introduction -- Theoretical Basis and A Review of Research -- Hot Issues and the International Experience in Urban Public Services -- The Layout and Characteristics of Urban Public Service Resources Data Processing and Analysis -- Evaluation for Supply Competence in Urban Public Services --...

Introduction -- A Comparison of Concepts and Patterns in Primary-level Social Governance -- Theoretical Basis and the Perspective for Analysis -- Shanghai Pattern: A Community-based Integration for Public Services -- The Shifting Focus of Social Governance and Practices for Integrated Public...