This article examines the relationship between initial conditions and new venture performance. The study uses a longitudinal study of 92 new ventures in Beijing Overseas Students Pioneer Park at Haidian. This study finds that new venture performance is significantly impacted by the venture's...

Oil and gas industries are technology intensive and appropriate risk evaluation is necessary. The Chinese oil and gas industry is in the development phase, thus risk assessments and mitigation is more important than pushing technological innovation. This paper compiles research of other experts...

Using a macro dynamic model that is specified for the current Chinese economy, we investigate the monetary policy in China under the assumption that the capital market was ¡°open¡± under WTO frame-work while the exchange rate was fixed. Our purpose here is to find whether it is possible for...

Current models of trade policy formation in representative democracies lack the micro foundations from which the political actions of voters, interest groups, and policy makers can be deduced. This paper provides microfoundations for the most influential of representative democracy models, the...

Objectives To measure the economic burden of cerebral palsy (CP) in China is to provide information on CP's societal impacts to policy-makers.Methods The economic burden of CP includes direct healthcare costs, direct non-healthcare costs, developmental costs and indirect costs such as...

This article investigates the potentials of energy saving and greenhouse gases emission mitigation offered by implementation of building energy efficiency policies in China. An overview of existing literature regarding long-term energy-demand and carbon dioxide (CO2) emission forecast scenarios...

A discrete time reactive dynamic user equilibrium (DUE) model for network with queues is presented. Based on the point queue model, each link is assumed to have a constant running time and queuing delay caused by link exit capacity. The link performance function and link exit function are given...

With variable labor supply, a transfer's price responses depend on intercountry differences in propensities to consume commodities and leisure, as well as output effects of labor supply changes. This paper reveals a critical link between the transfer's terms of trade effect and the forces that...

We introduce the current status and advantages of the development of silk industry in Guangxi Province of China. We also analyze the tremendous achievements of Guangxi silk industry. Finally, this paper forecasts the future of semitropical silk industry in Guangxi Province, and puts forward the...