Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to estimate the cost and profit efficiency (PE) of Chinese commercial banks in the last ten years and investigate how market power affects bank efficiency and stability. Design/methodology/approach – The paper builds a stochastic frontier analysis model...

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to estimate the cost and profit efficiency (PE) of Chinese commercial banks in the last ten years and investigate how market power affects bank efficiency and stability. Design/methodology/approach -The paper builds a stochastic frontier analysis model to...

Water-level variation in the subgrade of high-speed railway influences the cumulative settlement of the subgrade. Full-scale model test on high-speed railway under varying water levels within the subgrade was conducted in this research. Dynamic soil pressures in different depths within the...

Beidong minorities living together in Qingshui River valley are deeply influenced by Jing and Chu culture. Their ethnic and traditional culture was developed in the process of collision with foreign culture. In the several great social transformations, their cultural ecology was not imbalanced,...