Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to develop a new model for the success of megaprojects. Megaprojects are often said to fail because they finish late and/or overspent. As megaprojects are usually complex, so small changes in input can lead to disproportionate changes in output. So the time...

Why did the correlation between oil prices and 10-year TIPS Break-even Inflation, a measure of long-term inflation compensation, increase dramatically after the financial crisis? Using a shadow-rate no-arbitrage term structure model, we demonstrate that this is because when nominal interest...

Constructed wetlands are extensively applied in waste water treatment and water ecosystem restoration. However, the accumulation and migration characteristics and potential ecology risks of heavy metals, particularly in a long-running large-scale constructed wetland for wastewater treatment, are...