Governments’ opportunistic behaviors and failure to recognize local needs and characteristics are the main concerns about place-based policy. In China’s between-region pairing aid program targeting Xinjiang, instead of simple fiscal transfers and centralized decisions about how to perform...

Many student debtors who once enrolled in a bachelor’s program have not completed their college degree. We establish empirically that college students and their parents are overly optimistic about the probability of college graduation when making college enrollment decisions. We incorporate...

Phase change memory (PCM) is usually integrated with the ovonic threshold switching (OTS) selector in the high-density memory chips. The As doping is a commercialized technology in the OTS materials to enhance their performance, but the understanding of the OTS behavior and the influence from...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to develop and validate an innovative Fuzzy Recognition Based‐Benefit Estimation Model (FRB‐BEM) to quantify the benefits obtained from a Mid‐Project Review (MPR) (e.g. the Gateway Review Process (GRP)). This is a quantitative assessment to evaluate...

The decline of China's energy intensity slowed since 2000. During 2002–2005 it actually increased, reversing the long-term trend. Therefore, it is important to identify drivers of the fluctuation of energy intensity. We use input–output structural decomposition analysis to investigate the...

China has pledged to reduce its CO2 emissions per unit of GDP by 40–45% by 2020 as of 2005 level. This research examines China's 2020 carbon intensity target and its interdependence with the overarching national economic and social development goals. The results show that, with annual GDP...

This study examines the annual CO2 emissions embodied in China's exports from 2002 to 2008 using environmental input–output analysis. Four driving forces, including emission intensity, economic production structure, export composition, and total export volume, are compared for their...

This research studies the low carbon transition of the electric power sector in China using a multi-level perspective (MLP) of niches, socio-technical regime, and landscape, as well as literature on innovation systems. Three lines of thought on transition process are integrated in the paper to...