Solar thermoelectric power generation is known as an economic way to utilize the full solar spectrum energy with less dependency on daylight and weather conditions.

While in standard housing economics housing is regarded as an asset and a consumption good, we study in this paper the consequences for housing prices if housing is also a status good. More concretely, if a family's housing wealth relative to others is an important marker for relative status in...

A new non-randomized response (NRR) model (called a variant of the parallel model) is proposed. The survey design and corresponding statistical inferences including likelihood-based methods, Bayesian methods and bootstrap methods are provided. Theoretical and numerical comparisons showed that...

We examine the relationship between atmospheric pollution, water pollution, traffic congestion, access to parkland and personal well-being using a survey administered across six Chinese cities in 2007. In contrast to existing studies of the determinants of well-being by economists, which have...

We examine the relationship between atmospheric pollution, water pollution, traffic congestion, access to parkland and personal well-being using a survey administered across six Chinese cities in 2007. In contrast to existing studies of the determinants of well-being by economists, which have...

Climate change is likely to result in increased aridity, lower runoff, and declining water supplies for the cities of the Southwestern United States, including Phoenix. The situation in Phoenix is particularly complicated by the large number of water providers, each with its own supply...

Change and movement across space and over time are observed in our everyday lives, with people commuting, traveling, communicating, moving, migrating, etc. Understanding how and why such change occurs is important for various reasons, including management of resources, planning for service...

Motivated from the stochastic representation of the univariate zero-inflated Poisson (ZIP) random variable, the authors propose a multivariate ZIP distribution, called as Type I multivariate ZIP distribution, to model correlated multivariate count data with extra zeros. The distributional theory...