Do policies that aim to mitigate fire sale externalities actually improve financial stability? We study this question in a model of financial intermediation where banks may sell long-term assets in financial markets subject to cash-in-the-market pricing and bank runs. In the absence of...

Corona Virus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) can cause the patients' condition to become serious at some check-point, and thus patients need the intensive care unit (ICU) intervention to survive. The resulted urgent and extensive needs of ICUs posed significant risks to the management of the medical...

Crowd counting is generally a pixel-wise regression task and owns the broad application prospects. In order to generate high-quality density maps, recent remarkable works mostly adopt the long skip connection or encoder-decoder architectures which aggregate features via the step-by-step...

For strategic and competitive insights, this study measures and benchmarks the comparative operating efficiencies of insurance companies in Taiwan and mainland China. We employ the two-stage DEA with the bootstrapped truncated regression approach to examine the overall efficiency of insurance...

Climate change poses the most significant threat to humanity today. This study examines the global warming trend by analyzing temperature changes over the past century, uncovering alarming results. Various models, including the Random Walk with Drift approach with R programming language, have...