This paper investigates stock market interdependence between China, Korea, Japan and the US with particular attention to the impact of the Chinese reforms within a 4x4 asymmetric GARCH-BEKК framework. We find a bi-directional market linkage between China and the US and uni-directional linkages...

We investigate field effect transistors (FETs) based on semiconducting armchair-edged silicene nanoribbons (ASiNRs) by using ab initio quantum transport calculations. These FETs have high performance with an I <Subscript>on</Subscript>/I <Subscript>off</Subscript> ratio of over 10<Superscript>6</Superscript> and a subthreshold swing as small as 90 mV/decade....</superscript></subscript></subscript>

The technical and socioeconomic evaluation of small-scale sprinkler irrigation systems is a multi-criteria problem characterized by complexity and uncertainty. In order to solve that, the application of Grey Relational Analysis (GRA) was presented. An evaluation model with ten sub-criteria under...

An examination of the linkages between the emerging stock markets in Warsaw and Budapest and the established markets in Frankfurt and the U.S. By using a four-variable asymmetric GARCH-BEKK model, we find evidence of return and volatility spillovers from the developed to the emerging markets....

This paper considers time series Generalized Method of Moments (GMM) models where a subset of the parameters are time varying. We focus on an empirically relevant case with moderately large instabilities, which are well approximated by a local asymptotic embedding that does not allow the...

Economic theory posits numerous channels through which FDI might create positive spillovers for domestic firms. However, the results of empirical studies that have sought to document these spillovers have been mixed. One explanation for this variation is that the capacity of domestic firms to...

The viability of local government-sponsored community development of poor ethnic enclaves hinges on the perceptions of residents. If residents view the enclave in which they live as their "community of choice," they will be more likely to join with local government to coproduce community...

Taking Daxing District, Beijing, China as a example, benefit evaluation index system of small-town land comprehensive consolidation is established from four aspects of resource benefit, economic benefit, social benefit and ecological benefit. Weight of evaluation index is determined by analytic...

In this paper, to obtain an efficient parallel algorithm to solve sparse block-tridiagonal linear systems, stair matrices are used to construct some parallel polynomial approximate inverse preconditioners. These preconditioners are suitable when the desired goal is to maximize parallelism....

A high-order finite element method, total variational diminishing (TVD) Runge–Kutta discontinuous Galerkin method is investigated to solve free-surface problems in hydraulic dynamics. Some cases of circular dam and rapidly varying two-dimensional flows are presented to show the efficiency and...