Despite international focus on how to facilitate adaptation to droughts in a changing climate, a good deal of adaptation will be enacted at the local level. Focusing on the Yuanyang Terrace of SW China (a very famous agricultural heritage site), this study illustrates that land use change,...

Testing the equality of two independent normal populations is a perfect case of the two-sample problem, yet it is not treated in the main text of any textbook or handbook. In this article, we derive the exact distribution of the likelihood ratio test and implement this test with an R function....

This paper studies the interlinks between innovation inputs and outputs and between innovation outputs and economic development. Using a panel data-set from 31 regions of China, we show that the difference in regional innovation output can be significantly explained by R&D manpower and...

We investigate the impact of security analyst coverage on the incidence of corporate financial fraud in China. After controlling for the endogeneity between analyst following and fraud, we find that financial analyst coverage cannot significantly influence the incidence of fraud. The empirical...

This article classifies Chinese mutual funds based on their past investment behavior, using factor and cluster analyses. The empirical results show that the majority of Chinese mutual funds are quasi-indexers (58.58%) which follow a buy-and-hold investment strategy; next are transient mutual...

The Weibull family is widely used to model failure data, or lifetime data, although the classical two-parameter Weibull distribution is limited to positive data and monotone failure rate. The parameters of the Weibull model are commonly obtained by maximum likelihood estimation; however, it is...

This study examines the impact of long-term and short-term mutual funds’ ownership on various types of earnings management in China. We find that both long-term and short-term funds’ holdings can lead to reduced non-core income. However, long-term mutual funds’ holdings have an...

The paper presents the complete design of a photovoltaic noise barrier (PVNB) installation that can be used either to supply local electrical loads or for sale using the premium subsidy awarded by the China government. Possible designs for the PVNB are investigated together with economic and...