Land finance is a special land financing mode in China under the nationalization of urban land since 1954. The policy authorizes local governments to collect fiscal revenue from land grant premiums and land taxes. As China is experiencing the social and economic transformation, heavily replying...

Buying a home is the single biggest investment decision for most Americans. Because most buyers do not have the cash to pay the purchase price upfront, they are obliged to take out mortgage loans. The result has been demand for a wide range of mortgage products to suit borrowers' varied cash...

A decentralized exchange (DEX) records every transaction on a blockchain, so it is much slower than a centralised exchange (CEX) which is only linked to a blockchain via a wallet, so no trades are recorded directly on the chain. While all CEXs use a traditional limit order book, most DEXs use a...

Rechargeable aqueous Zn-metal batteries (ZMBs) have attracted widespread attention due to their safety, high rate and low cost beyond Li-metal batteries (LMBs). However, due to the lack of the solid electrolyte interphase (SEI) film, anabatic problems such as dendrites, side reactions and...

A chance-constrained binary program (CCBP) is a general optimization problem over binary decision variables restricted by a chance constraint, which ensures that a constraint with uncertain coefficients can be violated only up to a given probability threshold. Despite its wide applications, the...

Navigation channels are fairways for vessels to travel in and out of the terminal basin of a container port. The capacity of a navigation channel is restricted by the number of traffic lanes and safety clearance of vessels, and the availability of a navigation channel is usually affected by...

Procurement auctions are widely used to solicit bids for custom items suchas services, construction projects, public infrastructure, and more. Such auctions involve significant risk because the idiosyncratic nature of the purchases means that delivered quality is uncertain. We examine the case...