Generation of mesoscale eddies in the eastern South China Sea (SCS) in winters during August 1999 to July 2002 is studied with a reduced-gravity model. It is found that the orographic wind jets associated with the northeast winter monsoon and the gaps in the mountainous island chain along the eastern boundary of the SCS can spin up cyclonic and anticyclonic eddies over the SCS. Results suggest ...

I apply concentration measures from the inequality literature the Lorenz curve and Gini coefficient to the measurement of global and regional integration, and show that these can be derived from the theoretical gravity model in the presence of unequal costs of access for firms from different locations to a particular market. Overall, comparing 9 economies, I find that the USA is the most global...

Warehouse location is one of the most important logistics activities. The selection of the most effective warehousing mode has become a strategic study. This paper will introduce the factors influencing the decision process in selecting the warehouse locations based on gravity model approach and analytic hierarchy process. In the end, the author will summarize the methods and the results.

We give an explicit canonical transformation which transforms a generic chiral 2D dilaton gravity model into a free field theory.

The effects of the institutional determinants on trade in agricultural and food products are analyzed using a gravity model approach. We focus on the impact of the quality of governance and the similarity of institutions in explaining variation in bilateral agricultural and food trade patterns among the OECD countries. Results confirmed the separate effects for the institutional similarity and ...

By combining new data on bilateral asset holdings with data on securities regulation in an empirical gravity model, it is found that bilateral differences in securities regulation lead to decreased portfolio holdings. Hence, regulatory harmonization can foster financial integration. The results are especially strong for equity holdings. It is verified that the results do not just reflect genera...

This paper provides an original study into how democratization and globalization in‡uence transnational terrorism — examining the motives of terrorists and how democratic institutions and international integration in‡uence non-state economic actors. We employ a gravity model to investigate the relative importance of globalization and democratization on transnational terrorism and external con‡i...

This paper investigates the relationship between intra-industry trade (IIT) and immigration flows using a gravity model for the period 2000-2010 between Portugal and European Union’s Member States (EU-27). The present study uses the methodology of Kandogan (2003) for separating IIT into its components horizontal (HIIT) and vertical intra-industry trade (VIIT).Using a panel data approach, our st...

We consider solutions of the field equations for the large N dilaton gravity model in 1 + 1 dimensions of Callan, Giddings, Harvey, and Strominger (CGHS). We find time dependant solutions in the weak coupling region with finite mass and vanishing flux, as well as solutions with lie entirely in the Liouville region.