Due to the high carbon and ash content of coal gasification fine ash (CGFA) produced by circulating fluidised bed gasifiers (CFBG), it is mainly dissipated in landfills and energy wastage. Large-scale dissipation of CGFA can be achieved if the carbon in CGFA has active oxidation properties and...

We find a limited parallel between lump-sum taxes and environmental taxes. Corollary 2, which extends Sandmo's observation, shows that appropriated corrective revenues have the same non-distortionary effects as lump-sum taxes, the result reducing to the original observation when the appropriated...

This paper develops a model to study how the thick market effect influences local unemployment rate fluctuations. The model demonstrates that the average matching quality improves as the number of workers and firms increases. Unemployed workers accumulate in a city until the local labor market...

This paper studies how the thick market effect influences local unemployment rate fluctuations. The paper presents a model to demonstrate that the average matching quality improves as the number of workers and firms increases. Unemployed workers accumulate in a city until the local labor market...

This paper studies the urban land market in China in 2003--2007. In China, all urban land is owned by the state. Leasehold use rights for land for (re)development are sold by city governments and are a key source of city revenue. Leasehold sales are viewed as a major venue for corruption,...

This paper develops a search-matching model to study the impact of the unemployment rate on the housing market in the presence of the thick market effect. We estimate the structural model using Texas city-level data that covers three years, 1990, 2000 and 2010. Our structural estimation helps...

The growth rate of temporary help service employment is often considered to be a leading business cycle indicator, because the firing and hiring of temporary help workers typically lead that of permanent workers. However, few works in the literature focus on the mechanism that generates the lag...