This study analyzes the effectiveness of capital controls on international debt flows using data of 81 economies, including both advanced and emerging economies, over the period from 1995 to 2019. The analysis using the total sample shows that, although they are in the expected directions, the...

Milton Friedman, in the 1960s, was convinced that the British government official in charge of Hong Kong's economic policy — John Cowperthwaite — was largely responsible for running the most radical experiment in economic history. Cowperthwaite, a classical liberal enrolled in the British...

Soil erosion, which is motivated by multiple external factors, decreases soil fertility and threatens the world’s agriculture production and terrestrial ecosystems. In southwest of China, arid-hot valleys of the Jinsha River are highly susceptible to soil erosion owing to the fragile ecosystem...

Blended coal combustion technology is being applied in many power plants as a clean coal combustion technology. In order to investigate the effects of different factors on the pore structure and fractal properties of the blended coal coke, a low-temperature nitrogen adsorption method and...

In the present study, a novel type of titanium matrix composite with a quasi-network structure was successfully fabricated by hot-press sintering Ti6Al4V powder and Ti2AlC precursor at 1200 ℃ and 25 MPa. To explore the effect of Ti2AlC content on the microstructure and properties of...