Over a century of rapid urbanization and industrialization in New Jersey brought visible impacts on the watershed. Consequently, it puts ever-increasing stress on the resource and environmental capacities of the region. This research focuses on an urban industrial coastal area in New Jersey...

Currently, the real economy is the important basis for the development of a country, especially after the global financial crisis in 2008. Given that the manufacturing industry is the main part of the national real economy, many developed and developing countries have paid considerable attention...

In this paper, we extend the Merton's structured approach to incomplete market economy, in which investors may have irrational or distorted belief about the corporate's future cash flow. Our theoretical model implies irrational belief generates an additional risk. In detail, as distorted belief...

Currently, the real economy is the important basis for the development of a country, especially after the global financial crisis in 2008. Given that the manufacturing industry is the main part of the national real economy, many developed and developing countries have paid considerable attention...

To protect the conversion privilege from being called away too soon, the bond indenture commonly contains hard call constraint and soft call constraint, which makes the valuation for the convertible bond more complicated. In this paper, a valuation model for a callable convertible bond with...

The superhydrophobic photocatalytic self-cleaning coating has both physical and chemical self-cleaning properties, which has attracted wide attention of researchers in recent years. In this paper, ZnS superhydrophobic coating was prepared on the surface of zinc substrate by economic and...

Loss aversion is a core concept in prospect theory that refers to people's asymmetric attitudes with respect to gains and losses. More specifically, losses loom larger than gains. With the capability of loss aversion to explain economic phenomena, some of which are puzzling under expected...

To study the house price dynamics in China, this paper extends the traditional life-cycle model by incorporating land supply, regime shifts and government regulation factors. The models are estimated with an error correction framework using quarterly data from 2000 to 2007 in Beijing. The...

In hedonic housing price modeling, real estate researchers and practitioners are often not completely ignorant about the parameters to be estimated. Experience and expertise usually provide them with tacit understanding of the likely values of the true parameters. Under this scenario, the...