Purpose – The purpose of this study is to investigate the key issues and challenges in risk management and insurance in the Chinese construction industry and propose solutions to improve risk management. Design/methodology/approach – The study is based on surveys which target people who have...

Ellis, Michaely, and O'Hara (2000) find that trade classification rules have limited success in classifying trades executed inside the quotes. We reconfirm this result and propose an alternative algorithm to improve the classification accuracy for trades inside the quotes. This alternative...