Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to estimate the impact of China's outward foreign direct investment (OFDI) conducted by exporting firms on their productivity. Design/methodology/approach: This study uses two Chinese firm-level datasets. To reduce the bias when merging the two datasets,...

Beverloo’s law describes the flow rate of grains discharging from hoppers, where the assumption of a free-fall arch (FFA) is very useful in understanding the physical picture of this process. The FFA has been observed in previous experiments but a clear systematic study of the FFA is still...

This article measures irrigated agricultural outcomes under the prior appropriation doctrine by developing a model of farmers' land allocations in response to water supply change. The modelling approach considers the institutional factors of water rights and permits the inclusive determination...

The 2008 Wenchuan earthquake induced a large number of landslides, and a vast amount of loose landslide materials deposited on steep hill slopes or in channels. Such loose materials can become sources of deadly debris flows once triggered by storms. On 13 August 2010, a storm swept Yingxiu and...

In a very interesting article, Zhang et al. [1999. An improved estimator of the density function at the boundary. J. Amer. Statist. Assoc. 448, 1231-1241] proposed a new method of boundary correction for kernel density estimation. Their technique is a kind of generalized reflection method...

There has been a quickly growing interest in properties of complex networks, such as the small world property, power-law degree distribution, network transitivity, and community structure, which seem to be common to many real world networks. In this study, we consider the community property...