Has China's strategy of 'exchanging market for technology' been successful? This paper analyses the effectiveness of this strategy based on the duopoly model of vertical product differentiation by Choi and Shin (1992). It is shown that the outcome is influenced by technology gap and absorptive...

This article presents a hedonic analysis of crude oil, the price and quality of which varies considerably from one stream to another. Different from common hedonic applications in the literature, the estimated implicit prices for the physical characteristics of crude oil have a clear...

The Andaman–Nicobar (A–N) Islands region has attracted many geo-scientists because of its unique location and complex geotectonic settings. The recent occurrence of tsunamis due to the megathrust tsunamigenic north Sumatra earthquake (Mw 9.3) with a series of aftershocks in the A–N region...