495 Result(s)
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Qi** Li
Regional/Spatial Science
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Evolution of the Land Tenure System in China
The current urban land reform in China, which represents a major step towards the market economy, is not a completely new idea in the history of China. In China, and indeed other countries, the evolution of th...
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The Housing Market
The problems caused by of the state land allocation system are also reflected in the housing supply. As private land and real estate ownership were banned under the earlier socialist doctrine, private real est...
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Urban Land Reform in Shanghai
Land markets or rather the so-called ‘leased boundaries’, started to develop in Shanghai after 1914 when foreign powers began to establish a sphere of influence in the city. To a certain extent this foreign in...
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New models for financing and managing highways: asset-based road corporations in China
The China International Engineering Consulting Corporation undertook, in 1997, the study of Viability of Asset Based Road Corporations in China as part of the World Bank's transport sector program review. The ...
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China: A Giant with an Achilles Heel?
Since the financial turmoil broke in Thailand in July 1997, triggering a financial crisis across South East Asia, China, the only major country isolated from the financial crisis in East Asia, has remained the...
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A test of inter-modal performance measures for transit investment decisions
Choices among alternative transit capital investments are often complex and politically controversial. There is renewed interest in the use of performance indicators to assist in making rational and defensible...
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The Mathematical Theory of an Enhanced Nonequilibrium Traffic Flow Model
This paper establishes the mathematical theory of an enhanced nonequilibrium traffic flow model. The innovation of the model is that it addresses the anisotropic feature of traffic flows. We show rigorously th...
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When Should Providers of Recreational Land be Immune from Liability?
This article examines statutes that limit the liability of landowners who open their property for recreational use. We ask whether landowner immunity promotes efficient provision by owners and efficient entry ...
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Reforming State-Owned Enterprises: Diversifying Ownership Versus Improving Management
One line of thought on reforming state-owned enterprises (SOEs), the ownership school, stresses diversifying ownership to eliminate government control. A second line of thought, the management school, emphasiz...
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Characteristics and Processes of Top Management Teams in High-Tech Firms
This chapter reports the results of two exploratory, interview-based studies of the top management teams (TMTs) of entrepreneurial firms in Chinese high-tech industries. Results indicated that the formal team ...
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From Politics to Markets: A Case Study of Chinese Firms’ Strategic Adaptation
With this study, we contribute to the literature by investigating how institutional, market, and firm factors affect an incumbent firm’s strategic adaptation in China’s transitional economy. Drawing on results...
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The Floating Body and the Disappearing Border
The 1980s witnessed the greatest exodus of Chinese poets to the West in the history of modern Chinese literature. Many major poets in the contemporary Chinese literary scene, such as Bei Dao, Gu Cheng, Duo Duo...
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Changing China–Taiwan Relations and Asia-Pacific Regionalism: Economic Co-operation and Security Challenge
Since the election of Chen Shui-bian as Taiwan’s President in 2000, there have been significant changes in China–Taiwan relations. Economically, China and Taiwan have moved closer to each other. Politically, h...
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Ethnic Entrepreneurship, Social Networks, and the Enclave
It is said that immigrants turn to entrepreneurship when, blocked from the mainstream, they can find a protected niche in the ethnic enclave. Canadian employers do not recognize the credentials of immigrant pr...
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A Decomposition Scheme for System Optimal Dynamic Traffic Assignment Models
In this paper, a Dantzig-Wolfe decomposition based solution algorithm is developed for the linear programming formulation introduced by Ziliaskopoulos (2000) for System Optimal Dynamic Traffic Assignment probl...
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Prediction in the Panel Data Model with Spatial Correlation
The econometrics of spatial models have focused mainly on estimation and testing of hypotheses, see Anselin (1988b), Anselin et al. (1996) and Anselin and Bera (1998) to mention a few. In this chapter we focus on...
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Creditworthiness or Management Signal? An Empirical Investigation of Loan Commitments Obtained by Non-taxable Firms
Market reaction to the announcement of obtaining loan commitments (LCs) is examined for a unique sample of tax-exempt real estate investment trusts (REITs). Debt-interest tax incentives may be ruled out on a t...
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The effects of federal transit subsidy policy on investment decisions: The case of San Francisco's Geary Corridor
In the United States, federal funding for public transit often accounts for a large proportion of a local agency's budget, especially for capital investments. For this reason, local governments can be expected...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Progressive Transmission of Vector Data Based on Changes Accumulation Model
The progressive transmission of map data over World Wide Web provides the users with a self-adaptive strategy to access remote data. It not only speeds up the web transfer but also offers an efficient navigati...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
An Image Analysis and Photogrammetric Engineering Integrated Shadow Detection Model
A model of automatically detecting the building shadows in high resolution aerial remote sensing image is introduced in this paper. The space coordinates of the shadows are first computed using photogrammetric...
