The loss warning announcement in China's stock market causes stock price to drop about 3 percent during announcement periods. However, the subsequent medium-term returns after loss warning announcement are significantly positive. For example, cumulative abnormal returns (CARs) from event day 2...

Early warning for sustainable utilization of regional water resources is an important control measure for regional water security management. To establish operable and quantitative forewarning model, in this paper, a new forewarning model for sustainable utilization of water resources based on...

To deal effectively with the evaluation problem of natural disaster risk system affected by many uncertain factors, a multivariate connection number expression is presented. This expression is based on the index samples and evaluation grade criterions of natural disaster risk system and is...

In this paper, we investigate cross-correlations between crude oil and agricultural commodity markets. Based on a popular statistical test proposed by Podobnik et al. (2009), we find that the linear return cross-correlations are significant at larger lag lengths and the volatility...

Accelerating the development of agricultural cold chain logistics is of great significance to improve the competitiveness of agricultural products, increase rural incomes and ensure food security. The present situation and main problems of agricultural cold chain logistics in Heilongjiang...

We use the population of UK corporation tax returns between 2001 and 2008 to estimate the elasticity of corporate taxable income with respect to the statutory corporation tax rate. We analyse bunching in the distribution of taxable income at two kinks in the marginal rate schedule. We find an...

In this paper, we investigate cross-correlations between crude oil and refined product prices based on the well-known detrended cross-correlation analysis (DCCA). Our findings indicate that the cross-correlations are significant and strong. Furthermore, the multifractality in cross-correlations...

As the vocational colleges shoulder the responsibilities of personnel training, scientific research and the social services, the agricultural vocational colleges, undertake the responsibilities of supporting “three agriculture†and speeding up the new countryside construction....

In this Finance Act 2013 (FA 2013) note we review and discuss the implication of the temporarily increase in the level of the annual investment allowance (AIA) from £25,000 to £250,000 for expenditure incurred during the calendar years 2013 and 2014. We first review the provisions in detail,...