For air quality dispersion models, mobile source emissions, including both link- and traffic zone-level emissions, must be disaggregated into grid cells. Current gridding methods assign all traffic analysis zone level emissions to the single grid cell containing the TAX centroid. In this study,...

Based on the theory of spatial econometrics, we test and process the urban and rural construction land data during the base period of planning and late period of planning in Bijie City. And we conduct comparative analysis of the spatial pattern and evolution characteristics of urban and rural...

The importance and necessity of implementing the balance system of farmland requisition and compensation are reasoned. The changing path of the balance system of farmland requisition-compensation is overviewed. In addition, the problems exist in the implementation of the balance system of...

Japan and Korea have long been associated with extensive, generally successful government intervention in the financial system. The authors survey the literature available in English on the operation and effectiveness of credit policies in these two countries. They divide the literature on the...

This paper develops a model to investigate the interaction between policymaking and strategic protest. Protesting citizens demand policy reforms by protesting against the status quo, but differ in their preference for the directions of the reform. The size of the protest informs policymaker...

This book has examined the English law governing participation in crimes and has built a case for abolishing derivative complicity liability. It has been argued that participation (assistance or encouragement) is less harmful and less dangerous than perpetration because it is contingent on the...

Although there have been many empirical studies about systemic risk since the financial crisis of 2008, few have analyzed the systemic risk in the time-frequency domain. In this paper, based on wavelet analysis, the main time-frequency characteristics of China’s systemic risk, the...

Based on the structural model, macroeconomic and liquidity factors are tested against credit spread changes in American OTC corporate bonds. I discovered that the volatility of long run Treasury yield has even greater explanatory power than the yield itself. Macroeconomic indicators, such as...

This paper investigates how banks’ loan pricing responds to the environmental performance of borrowing companies. Using a unique hand-collected dataset of bank loans in China, we find that banks reward borrowers that have higher environmental responsibility scores with lower loan interest...