In recent years, economic research has increasingly focused on the increase in local government debt, attracting the attention of government regulators. Using data from 2006 to 2022, this study empirically examines how local government debt affects financing activities. The results reveal local...

This paper investigates optimal decisions for private banking development in China under two innovative organizational structures-the big retail mode (BRM) and the independent development mode (IDM). Under the BRM, the retail and private banking divisions form a cooperative relationship wherein...

The international crude oil maritime transportation system has always been disturbed by the external environment and its own mechanism of supply and demand, which can sometimes last for a long time. BDTI (Baltic Exchange Dirty Tanker Index) is one of the most typical indexes in the crude oil...

Spatial or spatio-temporal data are frequently encountered in many scientific disciplines. One major challenge in modeling these processes is the high dimensionality of such data; that is, the number of observations is usually enormous. The first part of the dissertation proposes an efficient...

While ever-growing bio-ethanol production poses considerable challenges to the bioenergy supply chain, the risk of refinery operation disruptions further compromises the efficiency and reliability of the energy supply system. This paper applies discrete and continuous reliable facility location...

In this study, a new fenton system combined with electro-fenton and bio-eletro-fenton (EF-BEF system) was proposed for the ENR degradation and swine wastewater treatment, and the pitaya peel derived carbon modified by sulfidized nanoscale zerovalent iron (SnZVI) was developed as catalyst of the...

Modern trams usually own passive transit signal priority (TSP) to avoid interruption from traffic signals along the route. The key to TSP depends on the strictly stick to the recommend travel time between intersections. However, the effectiveness of the TSP can be weakened by dwell time...

This paper studies the impact of corporate acquisitions - both domestic and cross-border - on the uncertainty faced by acquiring firms. We use data for UK publicly-listed firms from 2004 to 2017 and employ a matching estimator combined with difference-in-differences to control for the endogenous...

This paper studies the impact of corporate acquisitions - both domestic and cross-border - on the uncertainty faced by acquiring firms. We use data for UK publicly-listed firms from 2004 to 2017 and employ a matching estimator combined with difference-in-differences to control for the endogenous...