Nations around the world have pledged for decades to address climate change, but no significant actions have been taken. This is hardly surprising, since there is no precedent in human history for such cooperation. Greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise, not fall. I argue that optimism about...

This paper argues that for the imposer of a regime change or war, installing an authoritarian regime is one of the best ways to impose the political will on the target. Previous scholarships contend that an absolute win and a total resolution is likely to neutralize the vanquished party from its...

From the mid-1990s and for over a decade Greece developed a very important and dynamic trade and investment relationship with most Western Balkan countries. The economic crisis in 2009 broke this momentum and led to massive declines in both trade and FDI. While trade transactions rebounded after...

Official (government-to-government) lending is much larger than commonly known, often surpassing total private cross-border capital flows, especially during disasters such as wars, financial crises and natural catastrophes. We assemble the first comprehensive long-run dataset of official...

A literature review of (Imali N. Fernando and Wei Long, 2011) discussion of Guanxi and business are included in their study. Numerous researchers have examined the value of Guanxi as a successful business and relationship marketing technique, using a variety of business backgrounds and case...

This paper presents one-to-one matching and assignment problems with externalities across pairs such as pairs figure skating competition and joint ventures in oligopolistic markets. In these models, players care not only about their partners but also which and how many rival pairs are formed....

This paper presents one-to-one matching and assignment problems with externalities across pairs such as pairs figure skating competition and joint ventures in oligopolistic markets. In these models, players care not only about their partners but also which and how many rival pairs are formed....

Since the integration of Sino-African cooperation, Africa's economic environment has dramatically improved. Nevertheless, Africa has always struggled to lift its economy, sustain its development, and propel its growth between a weak investment culture, social-political crises, and Western...