Trade theory has no clear prediction on how import protection affects an importing sector's relative size. In this paper, we estimate the impact of US trade protection on industrial production relative size based on a translog GDP functional system. Using an industrial panel data set and...

In regression analysis, there are two main aims: interpretation and prediction, which can be also applied in building performance analysis. Interpretation is used to understand the relationship between input parameters and building energy performance (also called sensitivity analysis), whereas...

One of main characteristics for building energy in urban environment is spatially distributed. Both electricity and gas per dwelling in London have positive spatial autocorrelation, which indicates that neighbourhoods tend to cluster together with similar energy use. More importantly, when...