With the methods of qualitative analysis, induction and deduction, modes of key links in increase and decrease connection of urban and rural construction land are proposed in view of the involved three key links, namely reclamation of rural construction land, fund raising and management of...

Based on the brief description of the developmental status of social economy in Jiangsu Province, the index system including 16 indices contained in 5 subsystems is established according to the statistics from Jiangsu Statistical Yearbook-2009, the practical situation of Jiangsu Province and the...

We establish the optimized grey model with logarithm new development coefficient by screening according to the latest statistical data during 2007 in Jiangsu Province. Empirical analysis and prediction research on rural gross social output value in Jiangsu Province from the year 2008 to 2012 are...

We seek to develop a recommender system that takes into account supply chain constraints regarding the availability of a product while nudging the customers to purchase it. The motivation to study this problem was because a firm faced availability constraints for one of its products but the...

With cashless transactions gaining momentum in developing countries, understanding the impacts of payment-system development on the real economy becomes essential. In this paper, we exploit India's demonetization shock to estimate the degree of payment-system development in India and rely on a...

Leasing is one of the most important sources of external finance to corporate firms. This paper develops a dynamic model to investigate the role of uncertainty and financial constraint in understanding the leasing decisions of corporate firms. The model predicts that firms with high uncertainty...

We document a hump-shaped relation between corporate cash and both real and nominal interest rates in both aggregate and firm-level data. We rationalize this result in a model where firms finance investment with cash and risky debt. The risky rate rises endogenously with the risk-free rate,...

We explore the significance of political connections vs. productivity for firms' domestic sales and export performance in developing countries, using the data from the listed firms in China's Shanghai and Shenzhen stock markets. We estimate firms' total factor productivity and manually build a...

While the COVID-19 pandemic has intensified counter-urban migration trends globally, with rural areas often portrayed as ideal havens, the post-migration realities and risks faced by rural in-migrants remain understudied. Addressing this research gap, this research investigates the neighborhood...

Steam flooding is a complex process that has been considered as an effective enhanced oil recovery (EOR) technique in both heavy oil and light oil reservoirs. Many studies have been conducted on different sets of steam flooding projects using the conventional data analysis methods while the...