Through the implementation of an experimental design, this study examines the effect of buyer demand specification and search patience on the home buying process. We find that there are no significant effects of demand specification on the behavior of brokers and the search results. When the...

To examine the blocking effect of transaction costs on household mobility, we construct a housing consumption model including transaction costs and adopt an analog simulation methodology, analyzing how changes in household income and home prices influence household consumption, savings decisions...

Tests and estimation for changes in the coefficients of linear regression models, particularly the analysis of covariance and the Chow tests, are well known to econometricians and are widely used. This paper demonstrates that analogous estimation can also be constructed in simultaneous equation...

The quantity of some resources is limited because of project cost constraints. These resources may be required by multiple activities simultaneously during a construction process. In a discrete simulation that models the construction process, tracing and controlling such entities, e.g....

Relying on the management system for agricultural sci-tech achievement transformation funding project in Zhejiang Province, on the basis of current situations and demand of agricultural sci-tech achievement transformation funding project management system, we present a B/S-structured and J2EE...

Based on the diagnosis of the industrial structure in the Xi'an metropolitan area, we point out the problems in the development of urban and rural industries in the Xi'an metropolitan area: there is imbalance in the industrial structure; the planning and layout is chaotic; the service system is...

We hypothesize that poor country-level governance, which makes public information less reliable, induces fund managers to increase their use of semi-public information. Utilizing data from international mutual funds and stocks over the 2000-2009 period, we find that semi-public...

The general law of regional spatial evolution is researched. In the process of the evolution of four stages, namely the early stage of traditional agriculture and industrialization, the middle stage of industrialization, the later stage of industrialization and post-industrialization, the types...

The disastrous Wenchuan earthquake in 2008 claimed around 100 000 lives and caused direct economic losses of around RMB 845.1 billion. The tragedy has also led to accusations regarding poor or inadequate seismic resistant capabilities of buildings. Seismic rehabilitation, which includes...

This paper is concerned with the existence and exponential stability of positive almost periodic solutions of shunting inhibitory cellular neural networks (SICNNs) with time-varying delays arising from the description of the states of neurons in delayed neural networks in a time-varying...