Individual donation depends on personal wealth and individual willingness to donate. On the basis of a donation model proposed in our previous study, a simplified version of an individual donation model is derived by relaxing the restrictions of the maximum wealth in the economy. Thus, the whole...

By analyzing the data of top 500 Chinese firms from the year 2002 to 2007, we reveal that their revenues and ranks obey the Zipf’s law with exponent of 1 for each year. This result confirms the universality of firm size character which has been presented in many other empirical works, since...

Purpose: This study examines the relative efficiencies of anti-poverty policies implemented in 28 Chinese provinces. Design/methodology/approach: This study uses meta-frontier undesirable dynamic two-stage data envelopment analysis. The authors divide the poverty reduction process into two...

This paper proposes a Markov chain method to predict the growth dynamics of the individual nodes in scale-free networks, and uses this to calculate numerically the degree distribution. We first find that the degree evolution of a node in the BA model is a nonhomogeneous Markov chain. An...

In present paper, we propose a highly clustered weighted network model that incorporates the addition of a new node with some links, new links between existing nodes and the edge's weight dynamical evolution based on weight-dependent walks at each time step. The analytical approach and numerical...