California is mostly determined by the production, productivities and dollar returns to the tree nuts, citrus and wine grapes …. Specifically, higher productivity and net returns contribute to the increase in the farmland values. Urban influence factors have …

-evolving information events, to nineteen years of daily crude oil futures returns and volatility to analyze the pattern of market responses … have the largest impacts on both daily returns and volatility. In addition, the location and duration of event windows vary …

This paper examines the impact of Federal Funds rate (FFR) surprises on stock returns in the United States over the …

This paper addresses the challenges facing China in accelerating the pace of rural-urban migration as part of its on … lessons for China are offered from the different urbanisation experiences of Latin America (especially Colombia) and Singapore. …

employs a unique natural experiment where some provincial governments in China liberalized migration policies for highly … provincial level employment data from the China Labor Statistical Yearbook. This paper found strong evidence that the HEHS labor … pool affected the location decision of food processing firms in China. The result supports recent literature that the food …

believed to have significant effect on the rise of obesity in China. This paper analyses Body Mass Index (BMI) and overweight … issue of adults 18 years and above in urban China with respect to food eating locations and other socio-economic and …

imbalance influences the venturing at the household level in China. We find that households with a son in more sex …

of climate change on corn and soybean yields in China. Our results suggest the existence of nonlinear and asymmetric … study period has led to an economic loss of $220 million in 2009 alone in China’s corn and soybean sectors. Corn yields in … China are predicted to decrease by 2-5% under the slowest warming scenario and by 5-15% under the fastest warming scenario …

-related carbon dioxide emission intensity among a panel of 30 provinces in China covering the period 1991-2010. We use novel spatial …