Land finance is a special land financing mode in China under the nationalization of urban land since 1954. The policy authorizes local governments to collect fiscal revenue from land grant premiums and land taxes. As China is experiencing the social and economic transformation, heavily replying...

Procurement auctions are widely used to solicit bids for custom items suchas services, construction projects, public infrastructure, and more. Such auctions involve significant risk because the idiosyncratic nature of the purchases means that delivered quality is uncertain. We examine the case...

This paper proposes a new class of nonlinear interval models for interval-valued time series (ITS). By matching the interval model with interval observations, we develop a nonlinearminimum-distance estimation method for the proposed models, and establish the asymptotictheory for the proposed...