Using the provincial panel data from 1978 to 2007, this paper makes an empirical analysis of the relationship between international trade and rural-urban income inequality in China. The results show that international trade has a fundamental impact on rural-urban income inequality. For the whole...

Purpose – Considerable research has been conducted on the comparative advantage of Chinese manufactured exports before 2000, but too little attention has been focused on the twenty-first century. With this rapid growth of China's export volume since 2001, what is the change in comparative...

This paper analyzes the foreign trade gap between 36 countries and regions and the role China plays from 1978 to 2007. The paper finds that the absolute gap among those countries increase, but the relative gap decrease, the gap between the developing and the developed decrease, the...

This paper analyzes the foreign trade gap between 36 countries and regions and the role China played from 1978 to 2007. The study finds that the absolute gap among those countries increases but the relative gap decreases, the gap between the developing and the developed decreases, the...

Through utilizing time series data of China’s services trade and service sector from 1982 to 2009, this study analyses the impact of services trade on service sector labor-demand elasticities. The empirical work yields the following main conclusions. First, no matter in the long run or in the...

Dramatic changes are emerging in the Chinese pharmaceutical market, as a result of new Government policies, new consumer habits and behaviour, growing competition among local and foreign firms. From a demand side perspective, consumptions of pharmaceutical products are booming thanks to a...

The purpose is to find a suitable geometric correction method of BJ-1 panchromatic image covering Kingdom of Lesotho. The methods are carrying out two geo-correction experiments based on the push-broom model and the projective transform model for BJ-1 small satellite real panchromatic covering...

We examine whether military regimes harm stock market performance by investigating stock returns in ten emerging markets under military and civilian rule. We find no evidence of military regimes having a significantly negative impact on stock returns. In the case of Thailand and Pakistan, we...

Can trading volume help unravel the long-term overreaction puzzle? With portfolios of non-S&P 500 NYSE stocks, we show that (1) both the high- and low-volume (abnormal volume) contrarian portfolios earn a much higher market-adjusted excess return than the normal-volume contrarian portfolio, (2)...

We investigate whether behavioral postulations offer any implicit explanation of the country-varying relation between trading volume and price pattern among short-horizon winners/losers in seven Pacific-Basin markets during the period 1990 to 2000. Our findings lend credence to the Lee and...