An appropriate evaluation methodology is critical in collecting valid data in complex development intervention contexts. This paper explores this issue by putting forward an appropriate evaluation methodology for development interventions in rural China. It draws on the experience of an impact...

<b>Ab</b><b>s</b><b>t</b><b>ract</b><b>.</b> Crime tends to cluster in small areas. Police have taken advantage of this by identifying these ‘hotspots’ of crime and concentrating their resources in these locations. This practice has shown evidence of reducing crime in the hotspot area. While it is possible that the benefits...

We propose a class of general partially linear additive transformation models (GPLATM) with right-censored survival data in this work. The class of models are flexible enough to cover many commonly used parametric and nonparametric survival analysis models as its special cases. Based on the B...

This paper uses DEA and cluster analysis method to make research on operating efficiency difference among 28 national business incubators of Southwest China with the data of 2010 to 2012 years. The results show that the operating efficiency of business incubators in Southwest presents the...

This study applies nonlinear threshold unit-root test to assess the nonstationary properties of the Real Interest Rate Parity (RIRP) for 10 East Asian countries relative to China. We find that nonlinear threshold unit-root test has higher power than linear method suggested by Caner and Hansen...

This paper proposed a thermal efficiency model theoretically based on an ideal ORC to analyze the influence of working fluid properties on the thermal efficiency, the optimal operation condition and exergy destruction for various heat source temperatures were also evaluated utilizing pinch point...

This study applies stationary test with a flexible Fourier function proposed by Enders and Lee (2012) to test the validity of long-run real interest rate parity (RIRP) to assess the non-stationary properties of the real interest rate convergence relative to China for ten East Asian countries. We...

We consider a game of endogenous timing with observable delay in a mixed duopoly with endogenous vertical differentiation in the context of sequential quality and price choice. We find that a simultaneous play in the first opportunity at each stage turns out to be the unique subgame perfect Nash...