The quantity of some resources is limited because of project cost constraints. These resources may be required by multiple activities simultaneously during a construction process. In a discrete simulation that models the construction process, tracing and controlling such entities, e.g....

Almost a billion people living in rural areas get no access to the paved road network, especially in developing countries. This paper explores the consequences of road paving projects in rural Chinese villages since 2010, which cost over $100 billion annually and reach nearly every household in...

This paper investigates the influence and mechanism of border effects within a city on the coordinated development of the regional economy by combining a quasi-natural experiment in China’s municipal districts border reorganization and satellite night-time light data. We find that border...

In this paper, we draw upon a quasi-natural experiment in China’s reorganization of municipal district borders to explore how border effects within a city alter enterprise resource allocation efficiency. To improve metropolitan functioning and competitiveness, the government of China merged or...