an attempt has been made to explore the general trends in the seismic response of planasymmetric structures when subjected to near-fault and far-fault ground motions. systems with structural wall elements in both orthogonal directions considering actual and common nonlinear behavior under bi-directional excitation were studied. idealized single-storey models with uni-axial eccentricity were emp...

We examine whether and how collusive coercive forms of corporate corruption influence firm value. Our identification strategy exploits (i) the exogenous criminal prosecutions regional government officials as part China’s anti-corruption campaign demand-side shocks (ii) unique reporting entertainment travel costs by Chinese firms supply-side disclosure corruption-related spending. Among for whic...

Demand side management is a promising alternative to offer flexibility power systems with high shares of variable renewable energy sources. Numerous industries possess large demand potentials but accounting for them in system analysis and modelling restricted by the availability their data, which are usually confidential. In this study, methodology synthetize anonymized hourly electricity consu...