This study explores the inter-type real estate investment connectedness in China. We document that: (1) connectedness is strong and time-varying; (2) the residential investment is instrumental in the inter-type investment connectedness network; (3) the total connectedness has dropped since 2008; and...

This paper estimates the causal impact of China's targeted poverty alleviation program on the academic achievement of students from poor households. We use the longitudinal academic records of a cohort of students from all middle schools in a nationally designated poor county in China. Using the...

The feasibility of converting high-iron electric furnace ferronickel slag (EFFS) and high-calcium blast furnace ferronickel slag (BFFS) to refractory materials was assessed by sintering with the addition of low-cost sintered magnesia. The preparation and properties of the refractory materials...

This paper estimates the causal impact of China's targeted poverty alleviation program on the academic achievement of students from poor households. We use the longitudinal academic records of a cohort of students from all middle schools in a nationally designated poor county in China. Using the...

This paper estimates the causal impact of China's targeted poverty alleviation program on the academic achievement of students from poor households. We use the longitudinal academic records of a cohort of students from all middle schools in a nationally designated poor county in China. Using the...

We examine the price discovery performance of China’s crude oil futures traded on the Shanghai International Energy Exchange (INE) for the spot prices of 19 types of deliverable and non-deliverable Asian crude oil. We find evidence for the INE crude oil futures price discovery function even at...

Proposing and applying a new spillover index approach based on data-determined structural vector autoregression to measure connectedness, we examine the daily housing market information transmission via transaction volume among Chinese city-level housing markets from 2009 to 2018. We document...

Applying a proposed spillover index of high-dimensional generalized VAR framework, this paper, for the first time, explores housing price spillovers among 69 large- and medium-sized Chinese cities from July 2005 to June 2015. We find that city-level monthly housing prices in China are highly...

AbstractsWe examine how bilateral currency swap arrangements (BSAs) conducted by the People’s Bank of China affects bilateral exchange rate volatility from 2009 to 2019. Applying an intervention analysis based on model-selection approach, we find 21 (16) significant (negative) effects out of...