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Short term effects of moderate carbon prices on land use in the New Zealand emissions trading system: LURNZ-climate land use change simulations
Kerr, Suzi; Zhang, Wei; Power, William - New Zealand Agricultural and Resource Economics Society … - 2010
The New Zealand Emissions Trading Scheme (NZ ETS) was introduced through the Climate Change Response Act in September 2008 and remains in force. The forestry sector has been directly affected by the NZ ETS since 1 January 2008 and stationary energy, liquid fuels and industrial emissions have...
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Herding behaviour in P2P lending markets
Caglayan, Mustafa; Talavera, Oleksandr; Zhang, Wei - 2019
We explore individual lender behaviour on Renrendai.com, a leading Chinese peer-to-peer (P2P) crowdlending platform. Using a sample of roughly 5 million investor-loan-hour observations and applying a high-dimension fixed effect estimator, we establish evidence of herding behaviour: the investors...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012161123
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Credit rationing and the simulation of multi-bank credit market model : a computational economics approach
Zhang, Yu; Xiong, Xiong; Zhang, Wei; Liu, Xuefeng - In: Computational economics 52 (2018) 4, pp. 1233-1256
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China’s Non-governmental Microcredit Practice: History and Challenges
Zhang, Wei; Li, Haifeng; Ishida, Shigenori; Park, Eric - In: Journal of Family and Economic Issues 31 (2010) 3, pp. 280-296
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Patient knowledge and antibiotic abuse: Evidence from an audit study in China
Currie, Janet; Lin, Wanchuan; Zhang, Wei - In: Journal of Health Economics 30 (2011) 5, pp. 933-949
physician–patient interactions. Our results suggest that antibiotics abuse in China is not driven by patients actively demanding …
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Carbon emission reduction potential of rural energy in China
Li, Canbing; He, Lina; Cao, Yijia; Xiao, Guoxuan; Zhang, Wei - In: Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 29 (2014) C, pp. 254-262
serious problem in China. The full development and utilization of renewable energy is the key and effective way for solving … the CO2 emissions problem. This paper reviews the rural energy consumption level and structure in China. Then, this paper … that if full development and utilization of renewable energy is achieved, on the basis of energy data in 2008, China …
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Potential cooperation in renewable energy between China and the United States of America
Zhang, Wei; Yang, Jun; Sheng, Pengfei; Li, Xuesong; … - In: Energy Policy 75 (2014) C, pp. 403-409
China and the United States of America (US) are developing renewable energy concurrently. In this paper, we seek the …
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The impacts of health insurance on health care utilization among the older people in China
Li, Xin; Zhang, Wei - In: Social Science & Medicine 85 (2013) C, pp. 59-65
utilization among older people in two provinces of China – Zhejiang and Gansu. The data comes from the pilot survey of the China …
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THE MACROECONOMIC IMPACTS OF CHINESE CURRENCY APPRECIATION ON CHINA AND THE REST OF THE WORLD: A GLOBAL COMPUTABLE GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM ANALYSIS
Yang, Jun; Zhang, Wei; Tokgoz, Simla - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2012
international political pressure on China to appreciate its currency and the Chinese government resisting significant changes in its …
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Is It Feasible for China to Optimize Oil Import Source Diversification?
Xu, Jian; Zhang, Jin-Suo; Yao, Qin; Zhang, Wei - In: Sustainability 6 (2014) 11, pp. 8329-8341
In 2013, China imported 282 million tons of crude oil with an external dependence of 58.1%, surpassing the USA as the … world’s largest net oil importer. An import source diversification strategy has been adopted by China to ensure oil supply … natural imbalance? This paper analyzes the oil import diversification of China and the USA, as well as the oil production of …
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