Operating efficiency of universities is widely concerned by the education community. As a non-parametric method for efficiently handling multiple inputs and outputs, data envelopment analysis (DEA) is often used for measuring the operating efficiency. However, shared input resources are often...

This paper examines the individual financial risk of health care expenditures over time in urban China, using longitudinal health expenditure data from 2005 to 2007 in Kunshan City, Jiangsu Province, China. We find that the stochastic process of log total health care expenditures is well...

The global financial crisis in 2008 increased the number of business failures in the U.S. as well as in China. The Chinese economy has also been affected by the recent global financial crisis given the fact that the Chinese economy depends heavily on international trade. Our study tries to find...