This article aims to gain a better understanding of the capacity of China to feed its growing population given its limited natural resources, and the impact of China's growing economy on rest of the world and vice versa. In order to reflect China's real food economy and reasonable assumptions,...

Housing markets vary across growing cities and declining cities, which creates heterogeneous responses of housing prices to monetary policy. We classify urban growth and urban decline based on the population growth rates at the MSA level. Using the local projections method, we find that housing...

This paper analyzes the potential impacts of the Doha trade proposals (those of the USA, EU and G20) on agricultural production and incomes of China's farmers by region and income group. By linking a global trade model to a national policy model which itself is connected to a set of...

High emigration rates are a challenge in the Western Balkans. High emigration rates might lead to inadequate skilled labor and affect firm creation, capital formation, and economic convergence. The 2021 North Macedonia census reveals that more than 12.4% of North Macedonians live abroad. To...

Nowadays privacy becomes a major concern and many research efforts have been dedicated to the development of privacy protecting technology. Anonymization techniques provide an e±cient approach to protect data privacy. We recently proposed a systematic clustering1 method based on k-...

Assessing the trustworthiness of location data corresponding to individuals is essential in several applications, such as forensic science and epidemic control. To obtain accurate and trustworthy location data, analysts must often gather and correlate information from several independent...

As sensor networks are being increasingly deployed in decision-making infrastructures such as battlefield monitoring systems and SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) systems, making decision makers aware of the trustworthiness of the collected data is a crucial. To address this...

In recent years, anonymization methods have emerged as an important tool to preserve individual privacy when releasing privacy sensitive data sets. This interest in anonymization techniques has resulted in a plethora of methods for anonymizing data under different privacy and utility...