Service competition in two-tier healthcare markets with heterogeneous patients balking
March 2025
Recently, public and private providers within two-tier healthcare markets have engaged in a fierce competition for patients, which is significantly influenced by patients' multifaceted sensitivities...
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Supplier encroachment and patent licensing strategy in technology-intensive supply chains
March 2025
Supplier encroachment in technology-intensive supply chains is an emerging and important research topic in communication technology. In order to assess the impact of patent licensing on supplier encroachment...
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Could coal-fired power plants with CCS be an effective way for carbon neutrality in China?
December 2024
The transition toward carbon neutrality in China necessitates integrating more renewable energy sources (RES) into the power grid. However, a high share of RES can destabilize the grid, making it crucial...
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Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the intermittent behavior of the global spot markets of staple food crops
December 2024
Intermittent or multifractal behavior has been reported in various markets, and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has been investigated. However, the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on global spot...
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Welfare analysis with uncertain market segment proportions
December 2024
This study theoretically explores the impact of market segmentation uncertainty on producers’ production decisions and their subsequent effects on producers’ profits, consumer surplus, and social welfare....
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Can smart transportation reduce carbon emission intensity? — An empirical study from macro and micro perspectives in China
December 2024
Traditional transportation development has yielded significant economic and social benefits, but it has also led to increased pollution emissions and substantial environmental impacts. Transport has...
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Ambiguity, limited market participation, and the cross-sectional stock return
December 2024
Using expected utility under uncertain probability theory (EUUP, Izhakian, 2017, 2020), we study whether the ambiguity related to individual stocks is priced in the Chinese A-share market and the mechanism...
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Forecasting the market value of power battery industry chain: A novel RRMIDAS-SVR model
December 2024
The emergence of electric vehicles has contributed to mitigating air pollution and greenhouse effects caused by traditional fuel vehicles. The power battery industry chain, which is a primary component...
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Research on the volatility characteristics and evolutionary mechanism of the “Asian premium” for natural gas
December 2024
The spread of natural gas in the main international natural gas markets shows characteristics of violent fluctuation, frequent mutation, and periodic evolution, which pose a great challenge to the safety...
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Demand risks and term structure of volatility index futures
December 2024
In this paper, we develop an equilibrium framework to explain the characteristics of volatility index (VIX) futures prices and returns across maturities. In the framework, the investors prefer VIX futures...
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Individualism/Collectivism and charitable donations: An empirical analysis at the national, regional, and personal levels
Available online 27 December 2024
Online donation platforms are instrumental in facilitating individual charitable giving by leveraging the confluence of financial technology and mobile social networks. Despite the impact of these technological...
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Does administrative monopoly regulation restrain enterprise over-financialization? Evidence from China’s Fair Competition Review System
Available online 19 December 2024
This study investigates how government policies affect the market environment and enterprise practices. We conduct a quasi-natural experiment, with a treatment group based on enterprises’ investment...
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Robust parameter design for constrained randomization lifetime improvement experiments
Available online 15 December 2024
Several process parameters affect product reliability. Traditional reliability improvement methods primarily focus on maximizing product lifetime, often overlooking the variation in product lifetime....
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The spillover effect of U.S. monetary policy on the international financial market: Evidence from network analysis
Available online 13 December 2024
The dominant role of the U.S. dollar as a global currency allows the Federal Reserve’s monetary policy to significantly influence economic and financial dynamics in other countries through mechanisms...
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Dynamic policies with reference-price effects and reference-quality effects
Available online 17 November 2024
Reference-dependent consumer preferences have been a central focus in economics, marketing, and operations management. However, existing literature predominantly concentrates on the effects of a single...
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Online platform algorithmic control and gig workers’ turnover intention in China: the mediating role of relative deprivation
Available online 18 October 2024
Based on the job demands-resources (JD-R) model, this study aims to investigate how algorithmic behavioral constraint and algorithmic tracking evaluation affect gig workers’ turnover intention by increasing...
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Factors Influencing Household Debt Structure under Various Credit Constraints
Available online 12 October 2024
Household debt is a critical component of family financial management, especially considering the prevalence of credit constraints. This study investigates the determinants of Chinese household debt...
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Analysis of the Rebound Effect and Induced Effect of Non-residential Natural Gas Consumption: Empirical Evidence from China
Available online 12 October 2024
Following the Paris Agreement, economic development demands energy services while reducing emissions. This study focuses on non-residential natural gas consumption, which plays a crucial role in transforming...
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Portfolio optimization based on network centralities: Which centrality is better for asset selection during global crises?
September 2024
We construct correlation-based networks linking 86 assets (stock indices, bond indices, foreign exchange rates, commodity futures, and cryptocurrencies) and analyze the impact of asset selection on...
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Evaluating service quality of express logistics service based on online reviews using LDA-LSTM
September 2024
The quality of logistics services affects the performance and competitiveness of express logistics companies. Conventional evaluation methods of service quality are based on constructing a rating index...
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Interaction between service investment and store-brand introduction in a dual-channel supply chain
September 2024
This study examines service investment decisions in the context of two store brand introduction modes and the mode selection of a retailer. The research focuses on a supply chain comprised of a national...
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Supplier selection of complex equipment in a military-civilian collaborative two-tier supply network with uncertain preference: A matching perspective
September 2024
Complex equipment refers to special equipment that differs from general equipment. The collaborative development work of complex equipment in the military-civilian integration context involves numerous...
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Mobile telecommunication companies’ investment and pricing strategies for content service
September 2024
Several mobile telecommunication companies (MTCs), such as AT&T, Verizon, and China Mobile, are investing in content services to drive continued growth as the telecom industry has become saturated....
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Does digital finance drive the green level of transportation companies? Coordination effects of governmental digital preference
September 2024
This paper examines the influence of digital finance (DF) on the green level of transportation companies (GLTC, n = 112) listed on the Chinese A-share market from 2011 to 2021 through moderation and...
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Multi-objective optimization for assigning reviewers to proposals based on social networks
September 2024
Most of the literature on reviewer assignment problem (RAP) considers fitness or efficiency as the evaluation criterion of an assignment, e.g., the degree of matching between reviewers and proposals....
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