Solar thermoelectric power generation is known as an economic way to utilize the full solar spectrum energy with less dependency on daylight and weather conditions.

While in standard housing economics housing is regarded as an asset and a consumption good, we study in this paper the consequences for housing prices if housing is also a status good. More concretely, if a family's housing wealth relative to others is an important marker for relative status in...

A new non-randomized response (NRR) model (called a variant of the parallel model) is proposed. The survey design and corresponding statistical inferences including likelihood-based methods, Bayesian methods and bootstrap methods are provided. Theoretical and numerical comparisons showed that...