Macro Management & Public Policies

This paper provides a framework to reveal happiness frontier based on British Household Panel Survey. Thereafter we focus on what is the impact of financial shock on reaching the frontier. By doing so we also explore the nexus between personality traits, such as extraversion, neuroticism, and openness, and the financial shock. We further reveal the...

The Pearl River Delta region has been the hub of urban vibrancy and boom ever since the country’s opening up and devolution reforms. However, the political and economic institutions of the cities in this region are so different and complicated that they pose great challenges to the integration of the whole region. This study takes...

 As one of the subjects under city-related discussions, locality carries significance in the dimensions of both political and economic space. Western researches have brought about various arguments based on theories of human geography, particularly in the area of urbanization. Taiwan adopts urban renewal as an important approach of revitalizing cities. In view of space theories,...

International trade provides a channel with which the interaction, integration and partnership of countries can be attained and/or established. Despite the relevance of trade to national, regional and global economies, the documentation of these economic activities is sometimes inadequate such that it brings to question the validity of the generated data. Empirical scholars often...

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Under the background of counter economic globalization, the group of twenty (G20) has become the primary platform for the east and west powers to seek consultation and dialogue. And the coordination mechanism of the new global powers has come into being slowly. As a multilateral regional bank, the BRICsBank takes the interests of developing countries...