Abstract The construction industry is one of the riskiest industries with a large number of deaths and injuries every year. Large amounts of money are spent annually on workers’ compensation. Thus, it is important to investigate the factors which affect accident compensation in the eyes of...

The concept of sustainable development — development which meets the needs of the present generation without depriving the needs of the future generation — has been in the lips of many political leaders, educators, NGOs and green groups. Living in the age of knowledge explosion, we want to...

This paper examines residential property development in the Chinese cities of Harbin and Shanghai in 2001-07. It reveals that development firms generally only built one residential development during the study period, which contrasts with the situation in most developed countries, where large,...

Previous studies on the price-volume relationship focus only on the total volume of transactions without taking into account of the nature of these transactions. While this is a reasonable approach for financial markets, such approach may have ignore some important information in the property...