This paper studies the impact of typhoon strikes on the fiscal implications using county-level data in China. In China, the local government stands at the first line and is the main power to allocate the resources to prevent and react to regular disaster shocks, experiencing fiscal pressure. A...

We unravel two drastically different paths for the uninsured and for people with employer-sponsored health insurance (ESI) to cope with the economic consequences of health shocks. The uninsured individuals support their incomes mostly from other non-labor income sources, public transfers and...

The minimum routing and wavelength assignment (min-RWA) problem is a classic and challenging NP-hard combinatorial optimization problem which aims to reduce the required wavelengths in wavelength-division multiplexing optical networks. In order to tackle this problem, we present a...