With the deepening linkage between housing and finance, the financial attributes of housing have been increasing. Thus, housing financialization has become a worldwide phenomenon, one that is gradually emerging in China's real estate market and cannot be ignored. The amount of urban capital is...

Healthcare providers (HCPs) and patients are increasingly relying on telehealth services (healthcare provision over the internet) to provide and seek care. It turns internet access disparities into a health equity concern, i.e., poor internet access can contribute to poor health. In response,...

Problem Definition: The challenge of optimally allocating a limited resource and its associated cost/benefit among consumers with heterogeneous income levels and private resource valuations arises in many situations. This paper tackles this challenge in the context of utility-led community solar...

This paper studies how the potential introduction of autonomous vehicles (AVs) in a fleet of human drivers (HVs) may impact the quality of service and the equality of access to transportation on ride-hailing platforms. We formulate a game-theoretical queueing model in which a platform aims to...

Financial agglomeration, which is caused by the movement and accumulation of capital, has been a matter of concern for economists. Utilizing the recent overhaul of China's business environment as a case in point, the aim of this study is to examine the effect of institutional surroundings on...

FDI is preferred over all other capital flows in the world. FDI is desired as it is a non-debt financial capital. FDI raises the investment in the host economy which by multiplier effect leads to increase in employment, income and savings. It provides latest machinery, state of art technology,...

This paper studies how refugee inflows affect receiving communities using highly disaggregated German administrative data at a 1km × 1km resolution. We develop a novel spatial equilibrium model that features two geographic levels, small neighborhoods and more aggregated local labor markets...