From 2013 to 2015, China gradually established nationwide air quality monitoring stations, and began to release real-time air pollution information to the public. We exploit the step-by-step environmental regulation across cities to identify the effects of information disclosure on air...

This paper examines the long-term impacts of growth and development monitoring in early childhood. For this purpose, we evaluate a pediatric healthcare program, the Systematic Management of Children (SMC), which offers growth and development monitoring through routine health checkups for all...

Missing data is a prevalent problem in data analysis. In the present dissertation I investigated the performance of multiple imputation (MI) techniques using a real data set as well as through a Monte Carlo study in the context of a Cox regression model. For the Monte Carlo study, I compare the...

This paper mainly studies a class of generalized sum-of-linear-fractions programming problems which have important applications in finance, economy and computational vision. In this process, we first propose a new method to re-represent the original problem as an equivalent problem (EP) with...

We develop a new tool for studying evolutionary games on complex networks - dynamical approximate master equations (DAMEs).We use DAMEs to predict evolutionary outcomes of two-player repeated games on networks and to study the behavior of nodes and edges during evolution.DAMEs reveal the...

This paper examines the long-term impacts of growth and development monitoring in early childhood. For this purpose, we evaluate a pediatric healthcare program, the Systematic Management of Children (SMC), which offers growth and development monitoring through routine health checkups for all...

Recent debate on dummy auction bidding tends to be grounded in ethical terms.This paper surveys the various moral theories that have been applied to pricingand property in the Western tradition as well as insights from non-Westerncultures.Property price is linked to both the institution of...

This paper uses an extended gravity model to shed light on the impact of the free trade area agreement between the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and the People's Republic of China (PRC) on the members' trade flows and trade patterns. New determinants that capture the rising...