In the process of using discrete element method (DEM) to simulate the interaction between straw and machinery, because the existing straw model does not have destructible characteristics, some interaction process cannot be simulated, which affects the accuracy of simulation. In order to solve...

As an important project type of Agile Software Development, the performance evaluation and prediction for eXtreme Programming project has significant meanings. Targeting on the short release life cycle and concurrent multitask features, a statistical earned value analysis model is proposed....

Rural consumers may face not only the challenge of affordability but also the problem of limited accessibility. Can a government's subsidy program effectively address these issues? This paper examines the impact of a large-scale subsidy program, “Household Electrical Appliances Going to the...

Regulations are often thought to be impediments to collaboration between governments and businesses; however, governments and businesses are increasingly forming partnerships to help them negotiate regulation issues and more broadly work together. This study argues that governments, by...

Previous studies only incorporate textual risk information disclosed by bank managers into bank risk aggregation. Besides bank managers, credit raters and financial analysts are two other important risk information sources. Thus, this paper first expands the sources of textual risk disclosures...

We empirically study how to seed products in a network in the presence of peer effects from both friends and strangers. The product adoption decisions of friends and strangers can both strongly influence consumers' purchase behaviour, but their importance relative to each other is unknown. We...

We utilize seventeen years of comprehensive daily portfolio and trading data identified at the individual investor level, to analyze the relative trading performance of the entire universe of households, all domestic financial institutions and all foreign institutions in the Finnish market. We...

This study makes an “apples-to-apples” comparison between hedge funds and all their counterparties, such as mutual funds', in a zero-sum contest utilizing a new methodology. Extensive institutional transactions involving precisely matched trade portfolios shows that hedge funds are...