Prediction models that use gene expression levels are now being proposed for personalized treatment of cancer, but building accurate models that are easy to interpret remains a challenge. In this paper, we describe an integrative clinical-genomic approach that combines both genomic pathway and...

This paper is based on our ongoing joint work with Ravi Kanbur. Xi Chen is grateful to Ravi Kanbur for invaluable comments, guidance and encouragement. For comments and suggestions, please direct correspondence to Xi Chen at xc49@cornell.edu.

This paper is based on an ongoing joint work with David Sahn and Xiaobo Zhang.

Abnormal Western Pacific subtropical high (WPSH) activities often lead to extreme weather events in East Asia in some years. The relationship between the WPSH and the members of the East Asian summer monsoon (EASM) system is unknown, however. So the forecasting of abnormal WPSH activities is...

The market-oriented reform in electricity industry has become a global trend since 1980s. Although China's electricity industry has been reformed since 1978, the substantial reform has not been conducted until 1985. Before 1985, China's power industry had been absolutely monopolized by the...

Investigations before and after the Fukushima nuclear accident revealed nuclear accidents like Fukushima would have unlikely happened in a country with transparency and public participation regarding nuclear issues. However, this lack of transparency and public involvement is unique not only to...

Addressing climate change represents a governing the climate commons on a global scale. The “tragedy of the commons” might better be described as the “failure of governing the commons”. Hardin’s solutions were “centralized government” and “private property”, which have long...

In this paper, we develop an empirical strategy based on the treatment evaluation model to show (i) that sunk entry costs exist for French firms and (ii) that firms? productivity significantly affects their level of sunk costs. Given our empirical results, we extend the basic Melitz [2003] model...

The tradition of keeping written records of gift received during household ceremonies in many countries offers researchers an underutilized means of data collection for social network analysis. This paper first summarizes unique features of the gift record data that circumvent five prevailing...

Although classical theorists tend to believe that immigrant youth are more delinquent than native-born adolescents, the existing empirical studies have shown the opposite. The current paper first gives a comprehensive overview of major theoretical explanations for the relatively lower level of...