Taking the recent benchmark land prices published by the Chinese city governments, the paper estimates commercial and residential land price curves of Chinese cities using cross-sectional data, controlling for urban population size and income level. The urban land leasing price-distance...

The intricate interplay between the variation of the stock network structure and fluctuations of that stock market is increasingly becoming a hot topic. In this work, employing a moving window to scan through every stock price time series over a period from 2 January 2001 to 7 December 2010, we...

No previous studies seem to have examined uncertainty in forecasts of origin destination matrix (OD) tables, predicted by advanced activity-based models of travel demand. This paper documents the design and results of a study on the effects of model uncertainty of the Albatross model on...

Because two decades have almost passed since the introduction of activity-based models of travel demand, this seems the right time to evaluate progress made in the development and application of these models. This invited paper seeks to discuss the initial promises of activity-based models as an...

Recently, policy makers’ expectations about the role of electric cars in reducing emissions have risen substantially. In parallel, academic research on purchase intentions has dramatically increased. Originally, most studies have focused on utility attributes and price. More recently, several...

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Abstract: The effects of the HIV/AIDS epidemic on fertility in Africa remains ill understood. To align the contrasting findings of recent empirical research, we develop a portfolio model that captures the potential trade-off between "quantity" and "quality" of offspring. According to this...