This book comprises contributions on recent developments in China from a law and economics perspective. For the first time Chinese and European scholars jointly discuss some important attributes of China’s legal and economic system, and some recent problems, from this particular viewpoint.

The world bulk shipping market has been in a peak period since 2003, and this has lasted an incredibly long time considering that the markets are much more complex than before. This paper investigates the characteristics of volatility in dry bulk freight rates of different vessel sizes...

Using an oligopolistic international trade model, which consists of three countries (A, B, and C) and three goods (two differentiated oligopoly goods and the numeraire), we examine (i) the structures of the countries’ incentives to form free trade agreements (FTAs); (ii) the pairwise...

Based on the daily precipitation data provided by the National Meteorological Information Center recorded at 89 representative stations in South China, as well as the reanalyzed monthly average 850-hPa wind field and sea surface temperature (SST) data from the National Centers for Environmental...

The equation of motion for the p-polarization field in a wurtzite GaN/AlN multilayer heterostructure is solved for the quasi-confined-optical-phonon modes based on the dielectric-continuum model and Loudon’s uniaxial crystal model. The polarization eigenvector, the dispersion relation of the...

Using an oligopolistic international trade model, which consists of three countries (A, B, and C) and three goods (two differentiated oligopoly goods and the numeraire), we examine (i) the structures of the countries’ incentives to form free trade agreements (FTAs); (ii) the pairwise stability...