The Cost of Not Speaking Up
David Maxfield has written a good article for Harvard Business Review titled, "How a Culture of Silence Eats Away at Your Company." He argues that people often say that they would speak up if they had...
View ArticleEvaluating 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 ArticleBasel Committee completes reviews of all its members' risk-based capital...
Press release about the Basel Committee completing reviews of all its members' risk-based capital frameworks (9 December 2016).
View ArticleRegulatory Consistency Assessment Programme (RCAP) - Assessment of Basel III...
Full text of "Regulatory Consistency Assessment Programme (RCAP) - Assessment of Basel III LCR regulations -Singapore", December 2016
View ArticleRegulatory Consistency Assessment Programme (RCAP) - Assessment of Basel III...
Full text of "Regulatory Consistency Assessment Programme (RCAP) - Assessment of Basel III LCR regulations - Japan", December 2016
View ArticleRegulatory Consistency Assessment Programme (RCAP) - Follow-up assessment of...
Full text of "Regulatory Consistency Assessment Programme (RCAP) - Follow-up assessment of Basel III risk-based capital regulations - Japan, December 2016
View ArticleRegulatory Consistency Assessment Programme (RCAP) - Assessment of Basel III...
Full text of "Regulatory Consistency Assessment Programme (RCAP) - Assessment of Basel III LCR regulations - Indonesia", December 2016
View ArticleRegulatory Consistency Assessment Programme (RCAP) - Assessment of Basel III...
Full text of "Regulatory Consistency Assessment Programme (RCAP) - Assessment of Basel III risk-based capital regulations - Indonesia", December 2016
View ArticleAre You a "First-Principle" Thinker?
In last weekâs New York Times Corner Office column, Adam Bryant interviewed Abe Ankumah, CEO and founder of the software company Nyansa. Ankumah discussed the importance of cultivating âfirst...
View ArticleThe Fading American Dream: Trends in Absolute Income Mobility Since 1940 --...
We estimate rates of "absolute income mobility" - the fraction of children who earn more than their parents - by combining historical data from Census and CPS cross-sections with panel data for recent...
View ArticleBombs and Babies: US Navy Bombing Activity and Infant Health in Vieques,...
We study the relationship between in utero exposure to military exercises and children's early-life health outcomes in a no-war zone. This allows us to document non-economic impacts of military...
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