Initially, the global financial crisis caused a surge of financial inflows, raising Chinese investment but this abated in 2008, to be replaced by a slowdown in export demand. The government’s key response has been to commit to an unprecedented fiscal expansion. Two oft-ignored consequences...

Initially, the global financial crisis caused a surge of financial inflows, raising Chinese investment but this abated in 2008, to be replaced by a slowdown in export demand. The government's key response has been to commit to an unprecedented fiscal expansion. Two oft-ignored consequences are,...

While environmental stressors such as hypoxia (low dissolved oxygen) are perceived as a threat to the productivity of coastal ecosystems, policy makers have little information about the economic consequences for fisheries. Recent work on hypoxia develops a bioeconomic model to harness microdata...

The emergence of ecosystem-based management suggests that traditional fisheries management and protection of environmental quality are increasingly interrelated. But fishery managers have limited control over most sources of marine and estuarine pollution and at best can only adapt to...

For decades the U.S. K-12 math education has been mired in dismal performance. The Common Core math standards -- the culmination of more than two decades of standard-based reform efforts -- promise to empower the American students to catch up with the international high performers. Being deeply...

Chitosan nanoparticles have been successfully used in removing heavy metals in wastewater, but their effectiveness in immobilizing heavy metals in rice is still unclear. In this study, the effect of chitosan-based silicon nanoparticles (Chsi-Nps) on rice planted on As-polluted soil was explored....

Even though the New Open Economy Macroeconomics models dominate current research trend, the Mundell-Fleming model still shines for its theoretical importance and empirical relevance, and retains its status as one of the workhorse models of international economics. A full grasp of this model is...