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Review of Rukmini Pande, editor, Fandom, now in color: A collection of voices. Ames: University of Iowa Press, 2020, paperback, $45 (272p), ISBN 978-1609387280; perpetual ownership e-book, $75, ISBN 978-1609387297.

The rapid development of the high-speed rail (HSR) network enhanced the regional accessibility between cities, drove the rise in cities&rsquo ; investment levels, and expanded the activity radius of the labor force, causing changes in housing prices along the rail lines. Based on panel data of 285 cities in China from 2008&ndash ; 2016, this study used the difference-in-difference based on propensity score matching (PSM-DID) method to calculate the impact of HSR on housing prices. The conclusions of the study indicated that, at the regional level, HSR significantly promoted the rise in housing prices in HSR cities along the rail line. HSR had a positive effect on housing prices, where the coefficient of HSR influence was 0.1511 and passed a 1% significance test. From the perspective of the combination of sub-regional and sub-city scales, HSR mainly played a significant role in promoting housing prices in &ldquo ; small and medium-sized cities&rdquo ; and &ldquo ; central and western cities&rdquo ; especially in small and medium-sized cities in the central and western regions ; in general, HSR can narrow the housing price gap between &ldquo ; small and medium-sized HSR cities&rdquo ; in the central and western regions and large HSR cities in the east region. Lastly, the results of the intermediary mechanism test showed that the income level of residents and employment levels played an intermediary role in the influence of HSR on the housing prices of cities along the rail line. Thus, this paper suggests that the Chinese government needs to formulate housing price control policies that suit local conditions according to the characteristics of different cities.

AbstractPolicy innovation is an essential approach for local governments to deal with external challenges, which is also the case in response to the COVID‐19 pandemic. This article discusses the effects of fiscal decentralization and leaders' intergovernmental mobility on the innovativeness of local governments in pandemic response. By investigating the economic relief policy of local governments in China, we find that both fiscal decentralization and local leaders' intergovernmental mobility in their previous careers facilitate the innovativeness of local governments' economic relief policy for pandemic recovery, and the business experience of local leaders enhances the positive influence of fiscal decentralization on the innovativeness of local policy. The results indicate that fiscal decentralization and the intergovernmental connection based on leaders' political mobility are likely to be two predominant factors for local governments to enable horizontal mutual learning and central‐local policy coordination, and as a result foster policy innovativeness in response to the pandemic.

AbstractTo stimulate the development and application of blockchain technology, Chinese government put forward subsidy strategy. To explore the subsidy policies under the new background, we chose a fresh supply chain with one producer, one blockchain-based traceability service provider, and one retailer as the research object, and government subsidy strategies were divided into a fixed strategy and a varying strategy. Afterward, considering the trust level of blockchain-based traceability information and consumers' preference to the blockchain-based traceability information, we revised the demand function, and three subsidy models were proposed and analyzed. Findings: (1) the varying subsidy will help the retailer, the producer, and the traceability service provider set lower prices. (2) Meanwhile, the varying subsidies offered to the blockchain-based traceability service provider and the producer will help the whole supply chain members obtain more revenues.