Coal is the major primary energy source in China. It is forecast that coal will account for over 60% of the primary energy consumption mix, and the total coal demand will reach 2.3-2.9 billion tons in 2020. However, ensuring the coal supply will be faced with a lot of obstacles in fields such as...

Western J., StimsonR., Baum S. and Van Gellecum Y. (2005) Measuring community strength and social capital, Regional Studies 39 , 1095-1109. Five case study communities in both metropolitan and regional urban locations in Australia are used as test sites to develop measures of 'community...

Neben spezifischen Objektattributen ist die Lage eine der fundamentalen Immobilienpreisdeterminanten. Aber wie bedeutsam ist die Lage im Vergleich zur Wohnfläche oder zum Alter einer Immobilie? Unsere Ergebnisse zeigen, dass die relative Bedeutung der Lage hinsichtlich des Bestimmtheitsmaßes...

Rainfall–Runoff Models (RRMs) are standard tools for hydrologists to organize water resource planning and management. With the development of space-information technology and computing science in recent years, RRMs have improved to better simulate the rainfall–runoff process along with the...

Exploratory process factor analysis (EPFA) is a data-driven latent variable model for multivariate time series. This article presents analytic standard errors for EPFA. Unlike standard errors for exploratory factor analysis with independent data, the analytic standard errors for EPFA take into...

We investigate the possibility of exploiting partial correlation graphs for identifying interpretable latent variables underlying a multivariate time series. It is shown how the collapsibility and separation properties of partial correlation graphs can be used to understand the relation between...

This paper estimates an empirical nonstationary panel regression model that tests long-run consumption risk sharing across a sample of OECD and emerging market (EM) countries. This is in contrast to the existing literature on consumption risk sharing, which is mainly about risks at business...

The analysis of coincident and leading indicators can help policymakers gauge the short-term direction of economic activity. While such analysis is well established in advanced economies, it has received relatively little attention in many emerging market and developing economies, reflecting in...