A comprehensive theoretical model is proposed for the performance evaluation of a solar chimney power plant (SCPP), and has been verified by the experimental data of the Spanish prototype. This model takes account of the effects of flow and heat losses, and the temperature lapse rates inside and...

A field experiment was carried out for three years to examine the concentrations of NH4+-N, NO3−-N and dissolved total phosphorus (TP) in leachates and cumulative leaching losses in rice fields with straw retention under different rates of fertilizer N application. With straw retention, the...

This paper describes a new incentive-based pollution control program in China in which the environmental performance of firms is rated and reported to the public. Firms are rated from best to worst using five colors-green, blue, yellow, red, and black-and the ratings are disseminated to the...

[fre] Depuis le début des années quatre-vingt, la zone asiatique est devenue une zone stratégique pour l'industrie et pour les investisseurs japonais. Les problèmes liés à la gestion macroéconomique durant ces dernières années (notamment à l'excès de l'investissement par...

Employee participation enhances organizational effectiveness. Trust in employees leads to encouragement and acceptance of participation in decision making. There has been recent and growing interest in understanding the basic characteristics of managerial mechanisms within township‐village...

As a result of a broad range of reforms, one significant change in the governance landscape in China is the multiple forms of enterprise ownership. This empirical study investigates differences between private and collective forms of organizations in China’s transformation economy on...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore online discussions about the 2014 World Cup on the Chinese social media platform Sina Weibo. Because China did not qualify for the World Cup, the study focusses on the role of online discussions surrounding a worldwide international event from an...

We propose a tractable equilibrium model for pricing defaultable bonds that are subject to contagion risk. Contagion arises because agents with 'fragile beliefs' are uncertain about both the underlying state of the economy and the posterior probabilities associated with these states. As such,...

Reduced-form models of default that attribute a large fraction of credit spreads to compensation for credit event risk typically preclude the most plausible economic justification for such risk to be priced - namely, a contagious response of the market portfolio during the credit event. When...