Assessing the water resource carrying capacity is beneficial for measuring the scale of industry and population agglomeration, and also avoiding the contradiction between increasing people and decreasing available water resource, due to the expansion of industry and city size. Based on the...

Land structure change not only relates to the coordinated development of regional social economic, but also determines the ecological environment security in certain region. Ili river valley was chose as the study area. The scientific and quantitative assessment of land use structure and spatial...

Controversy exists regarding proper methods for the selection of variables in confounder control in epidemiological studies. Various approaches have been proposed for selecting a subset of confounders among many possible subsets. This paper describes the use of two practical tools, Stata...

Confounding is a major issue in observational epidemiological studies. This paper describes two postestimation commands for assessing confounding effects. One command (confall) displays and plots all possible effect estimates against one of p-value, Akaike information criterion, or Bayesian...

During the years 2006 and 2008, semi-mandatory regulations of paying dividends published by the SEC set minimum payout levels for those firms who would like to use equity financing. This institutional background makes the payout behavior of Chinese listed firms show different patterns from...

The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted global trade and production. It has affected firms' operations directly and indirectly through their production networks. To cope with the crisis, many firms have allowed their employees to work from home. This study examines whether firms more exposed to the...

Chinese IPOs offer investors two potential lottery-like gains. One is huge first day returns as Chinese issuers leave more money on the table than other issuers and the other is that a particular IPO may go on to become the next Alibaba in the long run. Using a sample of 862 book-built Chinese...