Existing research on organizational structures of government has generally overlooked its impact on environmental protection regimes. Using a flat hierarchy reform in China, we investigate the causal relationship between the flattening of environmental protection agencies and border water...

Bellini et al. (2018) propose a robust version of Orlicz premium (OP) when there is an ambiguity in the subjective probability distribution of the underlying uncertainty or a multiplicity of Young function. Inspired by the work, we take a step further in this paper to consider the case where the...

In this paper, we generalize the classic therapeutic decision-making model, developed by Pauker and Kassirer, from the expected utility(EU) to the rank-dependent utility (RDU) framework. In contrast with EU, the RDU can incorporate a physician's optimistic and pessimistic biases into...