Navigating the tightrope:The art of balancing for better performance
September 2025
Effective supervisory mechanisms enable both monitoring and regulation of employee behavior, ensuring behavioral compliance and performance stability. However, continuous supervision can increase employees'...
Regression-based estimators in difference-in-differences with time-varying covariates
September 2025
This study proposes a regression-based estimation method in difference-in-differences settings in the presence of time-varying covariates – a scenario commonly encountered in applications. We impose...
Does administrative monopoly regulation restrain enterprise over-financialization? Evidence from China's fair competition review system
June 2025
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...
Individualism/collectivism and charitable donations: An empirical analysis at the national, regional, and personal levels
June 2025
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...
Damping effect of the percentage-based scheme: A novel resilient salesforce compensation to battle market turbulence
June 2025
This study examines the resilience of two salesforce compensations—the quantity-based (Q-type) and percentage-based (P-type)—under market turbulence. These two compensations are used to incentivize...
Bundled vs. unbundled: Impact of payment scheme on performance in a healthcare downstream referral program
June 2025
Healthcare downstream referral programs, where patients are transferred to a community hospital after surgical treatment in a tertiary hospital for rehabilitation treatment, have been widely advocated....
A constraint relaxation-based intelligence algorithm for workshop layouts with automated guided vehicle systems
June 2025
With the widespread adoption of automated guided vehicle (AGV) systems for material handling in manufacturing plants, it has become practical and crucial to delve into the layout problem associated...
Early warning of bubbles in the agricultural commodity market: Evidence from LPPLS confidence indicators
June 2025
This study leverages the Log-Periodic Power Law Singularity (LPPLS) confidence indicator to effectively identify bubbles in agricultural commodity markets. We analyze five major grain price indices...
Optimal pathways toward a carbon-neutral power system considering low-carbon technologies in the Yangtze River Delta region
June 2025
Because of its important role in China, many scholars have addressed the decarbonization of the Yangtze River Delta Region (YRDR). However, little work has been conducted on appropriate ways to transform...
A Bayesian network approach to production decisions by incorporating complex causal factors
June 2025
Handling uncertainty is a key aspect of production management. This paper employs a Bayesian network (BN) approach to improve uncertainty analysis in production decision-making by identifying common...
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...
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...
Factors influencing household debt structure under various credit constraints
March 2025
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...
Analysis of the rebound effect and induced effect of non-residential natural gas consumption: Empirical evidence from China
March 2025
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 the...
Online platform algorithmic control and gig workers’ turnover intention in China: The mediating role of relative deprivation
March 2025
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...
Dynamic policies with reference price effects and reference quality effects
March 2025
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...
The spillover effect of US monetary policy on the international financial market: Evidence from network analysis
March 2025
The dominant role of the US dollar as a global currency allows the Federal Reserve's monetary policy to significantly influence economic and financial dynamics in other countries through mechanisms...
Robust parameter design for constrained randomization lifetime improvement experiments
March 2025
Several process parameters affect product reliability. Traditional reliability improvement methods primarily focus on maximizing product lifetime, often overlooking the variation in product lifetime....
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
