Asia’s trading and financial hubs have become global cities which frequently have more in common and closer linkages with each other than with their corresponding hinterlands. As this book expounds, these global cities illustrate to what extent world trends deeply penetrate and permeate...

This article analyses the endogenous factors that influence the development of aeropolitics on the global scale, in general, and in East Asia, in specific. A mixed methods approach was used to uncover the relationships between factors related to institutional organisation and polity size, on the...

China's global ambitions are well reflected through the recent rise of its container ports and their ability to redirect global shipping networks. Meanwhile, seaports provide a rich field of analysis for furthering our understanding of legal, institutional and operational questions of industrial...

We consider a model of divisible good auctions that allows for both private information and uncertain noncompetitive demand. By placing restrictions on preferences and distributions, we are able to obtain explicit solutions for linear, symmetric strategy equilibria. The model allows us to...

We analyze the customer's choice with respect to a limit-order book, a dealership market, and a hybrid market structure. The customer's order is competed for and divided among risk averse market makers (limit-order providers) with heterogeneous inventories. Main conclusions of the paper are as...

In order to improve the high-temperature behaviors of hot work die steel in engineering application, the high-temperature wear and thermal fatigue behavior of brush plating Ni/nano-SiO2 composite coating have been investigated. The microstructure of Ni/nano-SiO2 composite coating has been...

In the rapidly growing literature on urban development in China, many authors have emphasised the salient features of economic decentralisation and the increasingly significant role of the local state. However, such arguments neglect a counter-trend in which the central state has...

In China the development of high-speed rail (HSR) is a national strategy for stimulating economic growth. Major decisions, such as determining which cities to connect and deciding the locations of stations, are made through a state-led planning process. Consequently, HSR stations are often...