Within the global constellation of increasingly connected urban centers, shifts in cultural preferences, design thinking, and spatial signification often reflect parallel transitions in capital forces and economic realities, locally and across the globe. The premise of the Global Leadership in...

The determination of luxury brands over the past decade to build new and provocative flagship stores in select urban centers and on time-tested fashion streets may have reflected the calculus of commercial economics and an emergent desire of retailers to embrace vibrancy and excitement brought...

Luxury retail design and development goes beyond the simplistic interpretation of the one-dimensional framework of luxury retailing – fully priced, highly-designed merchandise sold to a wealthy clientele in expensive real estate settings, often imbued with leading and sophisticated product...

Introduction.-Part I -- Macro Environment -- The Evolving Market Structure of Chinese Real Estate Companies -- Navigating the Property Data Landscape in China -- China’s Economy at the Crossroads -- China’s Provinces - Addressing the Discrepancies at the Local Level -- Hong Kong: A Review of...

We examine the association between auditor choice and the accruals patterns of Chinese listed firms that cross-list in Hong Kong. Our evidence suggests that the clients of Big 4 auditors report lower unsigned discretionary accruals relative to the clients of non-Big 4 auditors. Further, we find...

Based on the questionnaire survey, this paper analyzes China’s public perception of climate change in terms of several influence factors and some empirical findings are obtained. We find that some respondents are willing to take individual actions to address climate change, and they pay more...

Estimating equation approaches have been widely used in statistics inference. Important examples of estimating equations are the likelihood equations. Since its introduction by Sir R. A. Fisher almost a century ago, maximum likelihood estimation (MLE) is still the most popular estimation method...