Decentralised economic development initiatives empowering local governments have gained currency in both developed and developing contexts. The empowerment of county governments in China is a case in point. This study uses difference-in-differences (DID) and the fixed-effects model with panel...

In recent years, the discharge or leakage of dyes has caused severe pollution of water area. Adsorption, for its effectiveness and feasibility, is a good choice to solve this problem. However, the adsorption of dyes in low-temperature aqueous environment has been little studied. In this study, a...

This paper examines whether the proliferation of new index products, such as commodity-tracking exchange-traded funds (ETFs), amplified the volatility transmission channel introduced by financialization. This paper focuses on the volatility spillover effects among crude oil, metals, agriculture,...