Although China's financial market grows more mature, an old, and arguably unethical form of finance — usury — still exists. In an age when the Internet is widely available, various online lending platforms allow access to varieties of usury cloaked in new forms. In this paper, we discuss...

Purpose – This paper aims to investigate farmers' willingness to adopt new rice varieties and the factors influencing their seed‐selection behaviors. Design/methodology/approach – The Logit model was used to analyze farmers' willingness and the determinants of the behaviors in selecting...

Purpose – This paper aims to investigate farmers' willingness to adopt new rice varieties and the factors influencing their seed-selection behaviors. Design/methodology/approach – The Logit model was used to analyze farmers' willingness and the determinants of the behaviors in selecting and...

In China, large lakes and reservoirs usually span several administrative areas; therefore, they are co-managed by many government agencies. Such segmented governance generates a ``Tragedy of the Commons'' type problem, under which water bodies with more administrative areas involved tend to be...

In China, large lakes and reservoirs usually span a few administrative areas therefore are co-managed by a multitude of government agencies at different levels. This generates a typical tragedy of the commons problem: water bodies with more administrative areas involved tend to be more polluted...