Evaluating the Performance of ANN Prediction System at Shanghai Stock Market...
This research evaluates the performance of an Artificial Neural Network based prediction system that was employed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange for the period 21-Sep-2016 to 11-Oct-2016. It is a...
View ArticleThe distribution dynamics of Carbon Dioxide Emission intensity across Chinese...
This paper examines the distribution dynamics of carbon dioxide (CO2) emission intensity across 30 Chinese provinces using a weighted distribution dynamics approach. The results show that CO2 emission...
View ArticleHow do Chinese cities grow? A distribution dynamics approach....
This paper examines the dynamic behavior of city size using a distribution dynamics approach with Chinese city data for the period 1984-2010. Instead of convergence, divergence or paralleled growth,...
View ArticleThe demand for road transport in China: imposing theoretical regularity and...
Road transport sector is found to be one of the major emitters, and responsible for serious air pollution and huge pubic health losses. One important parameter for determining the consequences of...
View ArticleChina building energy consumption: definitions and measures from an...
There is an increasing awareness of the significance of Chinese building energy consumption(BEC). However, something worth discussing is that estimate the building energy consumption adopting the...
View ArticleAre Chinese transport policies effective? A new perspective from direct...
The air pollution has become a serious challenge in China. Emissions from motor vehicles have been found as one main source of air pollution. Although the Chinese government has taken numerous policies...
View ArticleOrder statistics of horse racing and the randomly broken stick....
We find a remarkable agreement between the statistics of a randomly divided interval and the observed statistical patterns and distributions found in horse racing betting markets. We compare the...
View ArticleOptimality of hybrid continuous and periodic barrier strategies in the dual...
Avanzi et al. (2016) recently studied the optimal dividend problem where dividends can be paid both periodically and continuously at different transaction costs. In the Brownian model with Poissonian...
View ArticleA quantitative case for leaning against the wind
Should a monetary authority lean against the build-up of financial imbalances? We study this policy question in an environment in which there are recurring cycles of financial imbalances that develop...
View ArticleEducational Homogamy and Assortative Mating Have Not Increased -- by Rania...
Some economists have argued that assortative mating between men and women has increased over the last several decades, thereby contributing to increased family income inequality. Sociologists have...
View ArticleHigh-Skilled Migration and Agglomeration -- by Sari Pekkala Kerr, William...
This paper reviews recent research regarding high-skilled migration. We adopt a data-driven perspective, bringing together and describing several ongoing research streams that range from the...
View ArticleAre Fuel Economy Standards Regressive? -- by Lucas W. Davis, Christopher R....
Despite widespread agreement that a carbon tax would be more efficient, many countries use fuel economy standards to reduce transportation-related carbon dioxide emissions. We pair a simple model of...
View ArticleWhy Does Capital No Longer Flow More to the Industries with the Best Growth...
With functionally efficient capital markets, we expect capital to flow more to the industries with the best growth opportunities. As a result, these industries should invest more and see their assets...
View ArticleDisrupting Education? Experimental Evidence on Technology-Aided Instruction...
We present experimental evidence on the impact of a technology-aided after-school instruction program on learning outcomes in middle school grades in urban India, using a lottery that provided students...
View ArticleAutomated Economic Reasoning with Quantifier Elimination -- by Casey B. Mulligan
Many theorems in economics can be proven (and hypotheses shown to be false) with "quantifier elimination." Results from real algebraic geometry such as Tarski's quantifier elimination theorem and...
View ArticleCoal Smoke and the Costs of the Industrial Revolution -- by W. Walker Hanlon
While the Industrial Revolution brought economic growth, there is a long debate in economics over the costs of the pollution externalities that accompanied early industrialization. To help settle this...
View ArticleLabor Supply Elasticities: Overcoming Nonclassical Measurement Error Using...
We measure the impact of measurement error in labor-supply elasticities estimated over recalled usual work hours, as is ubiquitous in the literature. Employing hours of work in diaries collected by the...
View ArticleA Poor Means Test? Econometric Targeting in Africa -- by Caitlin Brown,...
Proxy-means testing is a popular method of poverty targeting with imperfect information. In a now widely-used version, a regression for log consumption calibrates a proxy-means test score based on...
View ArticleDisappearing Routine Jobs: Who, How, and Why? -- by Guido Matias Cortes, Nir...
We study the deterioration of employment in middle-wage, routine occupations in the United States in the last 35 years. The decline is primarily driven by changes in the propensity to work in routine...
View ArticleImproving the Quality of Choices in Health Insurance Markets -- by Jason...
Insurance product choice is a central feature of health insurance markets in the United States, yet there is ongoing concern over whether consumers choose appropriately in such markets - and little...
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