Higher education and community partnerships have transitioned from casual relationships to more of a mandate with the advancements in technology and globalization. The result of this large-scale change has led to an increase in these efforts, but the relationships are still emerging. Using...

Scholars have heatedly debated the change of regional inequality in China and policies for intervention. However, most studies on China are based on macro regions and provinces, and have paid less attention to trends and mechanisms of regional inequality within provinces. This paper uses...

Electrical impedance tomography (EIT) is a relatively new imaging modality in which the internal resistivity distribution is reconstructed based on the known sets of injected currents and measured voltages on the surface of the object.

This article is concerned with explosive AR(1) processes generated by conditionally heteroscedastic errors. Conditional least squares as well as generalized least squares estimation for autoregressive parameter are discussed and relevant limiting distributions are expressed as products of...

This paper develops the "identified VAR" models of France and Spain with German monetary variables to identify monetary policy shocks during the period when the exchange rate is controlled mostly by the ERM. Different identifying assumptions on the contemporaneous policy interactions are...

Business cycle properties under different monetary policy rules are examined in a variety of dynamic stochastic general equilibrium models (the real business cycle models, the nominal wage contract models with different length of contracts, and the monopolistic competition models with different...