Determinants of Industrial Property Rents in the Chicago Metropolitan Area

Urban economists have long understood the theoretical importance of transportation infrastructure and accessibility on the location choice of households and firms. We utilize a readily available data set of transaction rents in the Chicago metropolitan area to investigate the determinants of industrial property rents. Among the factors considered are proximity to transportation infrastructure, characteristics of the property, the term structure of lease agreements, and local attributes of the neighborhood. Empirical results suggest property, lease, and local demographics play important roles in determining rents. Despite the fact that industrial property tends to locate very close to rail lines and interstate highways, transportation infrastructure has much less influence. There is evidence that there is an upward sloping lease term structure premium and that the premium varies over time. The model is also used to develop a constant quality rent index for the Chicago commercial property market. Compared to average rents and asking rents, the estimated constant quality index shows a smaller run up in rents from 2003 through 2008 and a larger drop off in rents through the end of 2011

Beijing\u27s Benedictine Age: A Report on China\u27s Renewal in Catholic Worship

Confucius’ disciple, Yan Hui, once asked the Master how to become a good person. “Goodness,” the Master said, comes about when “one forms himself according to ritual.” China has never quite lost its Confucian sense of ritual, for ritual is what forms a person in goodness, and in his final exhortation to his inquisitive student, Confucius suggests that ritual forms our vision, our speech, and our actions. Little wonder, then, that when Jesuit missionaries first went to China in the late sixteenth century, one of the aspects of Christianity that attracted Chinese most was the richness of Catholic ritual. Few Roman Catholic adages appeal more to Chinese sensibilities than the axiom, Lex orandi, lex credendi, or “The law of prayer is the law of belief”; the relationship between worship and belief is apparent in a society, such as China, wherein ritual is understood as the foundation of the human person

Resistance and Accommodation: The Catholic Church in Post-Mao China

The Catholic Bishop of Shanghai, Gong Pinmei, who was imprisoned from 1955-1985 for being a counter-revolutionary, once said: If we renounce our faith, we will disappear and there will not be a resurrection. If we are faithful, we will disappear, but there will be a resurrection. For China\u27s Catholic Community, the knotty problem of how to faithfully retain and practice religious belief has resulted in a highly complex system of resistance and accommodation. Two communities have emerged in China\u27s Catholic landscape, the underground church that navigates precariously outside of party sanction, and the aboveground church that operates under the watchful scrutiny of party-appointed officials. My talk will discuss the contours of Catholic resistance to China\u27s present state ideology, and the methods of accommodation employed to keep churches and sacraments available to the rising number of faithful. In recent years the lines between underground and aboveground have become increasingly dim as these two communities begin to collaborate more often in a new, collective resistance to party control in post-Maoist China

Hanshu Postface (100A)

Draft translation of Ban Gu, Hanshu 100a (2004

Hou Hanshu 40-Selections

Draft translations of Ban Gu, Hanshu, Chapter 40 selections

Historian of the Orchard Terrace: Partisan Polemics in Ban Gu\u27s Han Shu

A Dissertation Prospectus

China\u27s Century and the West in History: Historical Research in China on the Early Modern Era

MEMS Talk -- Whitworth Universit

Eastern Orthodox Martyrs of China: Accounts & Images (Boxer Uprising & Beyond)

Orthodox in China -- Whitworth University 201

Han Shu, Chapter 100a \u27Postface\u27

Draft translation of Ban Gu, Hanshu 100

China’s Preeminent Bishop Has Died: Aloysius Jin Luxian, SJ (1916-2013)

Obituary in Catholic World Repor