Using the price differences between two markets, this study proposes a method for inferring the social return to transport infrastructure (in the vein of Fogel (1964)). We apply this approach to an investment that increased the shipping capacity of a thousand-mile-long railroad in western China....

The impact of flood-risk on local employment has been almost entirely neglected in the empirical urban economics literature. This omission is particularly anomalous in the context of climate change. We extend the literature in four ways. First, we argue that competition for land between firms...

Using the path-integral framework to cast the pricing problem of the outside barrier Asian option into a Wiener functional integral form, we show that, after the introduction of a law-equivalent process and transformation of the new system, the deviation from the Monte Carlo price is seen to be...

This paper attempts to estimate the impact of population ageing on house prices. There is considerable debate about whether population ageing puts downwards or upwards pressure on house prices. The empirical approach differs from earlier studies of this relationship, which are mainly regression...

Taking Zhangye City as an example, the thesis analyzes the restricted factors of resources and environment confronted by the agriculture in arid area of Hexi Corridor: the first is the agricultural natural resources. The area of cultivated land decreases year by year, and there are sharp...

As a renewable energy, biogas is not only an important part of the development of rural new energy, but also an important aspect of sustainable development in China. The development process and present status of household biogas, specifically the opportunities and constraints of household biogas...

In this paper, an analytic approach is applied to approximate stochastic differential utility for both endowment and production economies. This utility function satisfies a second order nonlinear differential equation and is analytic near the stationary mean of the state variable. The radius of...

In this paper, we investigate the tail probability of the product X∏i=1nYi, where (X,Y1,…,Yn) follows a multivariate Sarmanov distribution. An explicit asymptotic formula is established for the tail probability of the product when X belongs to the Fréchet, Gumbel, or Weibull max-domain of...