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Modern Economy (ME) is an international journal dedicated to the latest advancements in all areas of international economics. The goal of this journal is to provide a platform for scientists and academicians all over the world to promote, share, and discuss various new issues and developments in different areas of mod…
Jingyan Fu, Jiaxin Liu
This paper selects the key pollutant data of 53 cities in Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei, Yangtze River Delta and Pearl River Delta from 2004 to 2016, and tests the effect of the joint prevention and control policy of the atmosphere on the prevention and control of…
He Cong
By using monthly data regarding the scale of shadow banking, interest rates, loan balances, and the market confidence index in China from 2013 to 2017, this study constructed a structural vector autoregressive model to investigate the impacts of monetary poli…
Xiaoyan Zhang
With the deepening of China’s economic reforms, in the process of gradual diversification of farmers’ incomes, the income growth brought by farmers’ entrepreneurship plays an important role in increasing farmers’ income. The importance of formal financial sup…
Yulin Guo
Overseas background executives are becoming more and more important to enterprises. By analyzing the data of A-share listed companies in China from 2011 to 2017, this paper finds that the existence of overseas background executives is conducive to the improve…
Yue Yuan
The pecking order theory is one of the most crucial theories in corporate finance field. Empirical test on this theory is very common in western countries while domestic empirical study is still relatively limited in China. The majority of previous stud ies m…
Lidan Yu, Shiyu Shang
As a grand policy of realizing the rapid development of the western region and narrowing the income gap between the western region and the eastern and central regions after China’s reform and opening up, it is of great practical significance to objectively st…
Alexandros M. Goulielmos, 1 1
We reviewed the most representative papers belonging to “maritime econometrics” published between 1996 and 2005: a scientific branch in-the-making, we believe. The papers covered the econometrics of the dry-cargo and liquid-cargo ships. We also mentioned a nu…
Dongjiang Xei, Haomin Zhang
Based on the data of 25 cities in the Yangtze River Delta region of China, using the method of Lucas’ endogenous economic growth model and establishing the fixed effect panel model, this paper makes an empirical analysis on the relationship between the indust…
Jia Miao
In this paper, Hicks-Moorsteen TFP index is employed to investigate regional efficiency and productivity of 21 cities in Guangdong province during 2000-2015. The findings demonstrate that the efficiency of the whole province first rises and then falls, and ha…
Zeev Shtudiner
This study analyzes the differences between salaried employees and self-employed people, in terms of risk tolerance, time preference, and choice of financial investment channels. Both groups completed research questionnaires designed to elicit responses relev…
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