To address a key issue in functional time series analysis on testing the randomness of an observed series, we propose an IID test for functional time series by generalizing the Brock-Dechert-Scheinkman (BDS) test, which is commonly used for testing nonlinear independence. Similarly to the BDS...

Additive manufacturing (AM) has attracted significant attention in recent years based on its wide range of applications and growing demand. AM offers the advantages of production flexibility and design freedom. In this study, we considered a practical variant of the batch-processing-machine...

The bride price, as an informal institution originated from traditional culture, is pervasive in many areas of the developing world in a form of a payment from the family of the groom to that of the bride at marriage. We study the effects of bride price on parents' health in China. Using...

The effect of subsidy on firms' market power is controversial and unclear. In this article, we investigate such effect through an unbalanced panel data at firm level. Empirical results indicate that subsidy weakens the market power of firms subsidized. We then verify our hypothesis for this...

Risk-related gender differences such as risk perception and risk aver - sion are widely discussed, whereas gender differences in self-risk evaluations are unknown. Using a sample of more than 310,000 individual loan applications from the Renrendai online lending plat - form, this study uses a...

Most of peer-to-peer (P2P) online borrowers are small business managers. The learning behavior of borrowers in the P2P market is rarely studied. The aim of this paper is to identify the existence of borrowers' learning behavior in the P2P market using a large sample from renrendai.com, which is...