Conflict is one concept that inevitably finds its way to co-exist amongst human society because every man needs another to get by and in the process of communication and building relationships, conflicts often arise, owing to the fact that as there are different interests, motivations, choices...

This research note reassesses UNCTAD’s transnationality indices in light of recent economic trends that are quickly changing the international investment landscape: the digital economy, the new industrial revolution and the resulting asset-light international business models. The recent...

The high-temperature sparks from the cutting or welding will decompose the print circuit board (PCB) use epoxy resin. To explore the influence of curing agents on the oxygen participated thermal decomposition mechanisms of the epoxy resin, the epoxy-O 2 models, which are cured by 3,3-DDS,...

Purpose: This paper aims to analyse operations management's importance in three main dimensions: having a successful strategy, an efficient supply chain management system, and continuous innovation. The case of Walmart is used to consolidate these three areas. The main methodology of this paper...

This paper develops a model in which the rivalry of oligopolistic firms serves as an independent cause of international trade. The model shows how such rivalry naturally gives rise to "dumping" of output in foreign markets, and shows that such dumping can be "reciprocal" -- that is, there may be...

We contribute to the literature on recommendation systems by proposing the Dynamic Nonparametric (DNP) model that incorporates a fully Bayesian approach into the traditional dynamic collaborative filtering and hence captures the change of customer preferences in the mobile game industry with...

This paper provides a justification for hedonic price indices and details the properties of hedonic price functions. The analysis is done in a market setting in which a finite number of goods, each defined by its characteristics, interact. We note that proper hedonic indices can be constructed...

Whether there are diseconomies of scale in mutual fund industry is of vital importance in academic researches as well as financial management. This paper investigates the impact of the scale of Chinese stock mutual funds on fund performance. The empirical evidence indicates that Chinese mutual...

General equilibrium models have recently been used to simulate the effects of many proposed tax changes. However, in modeling the effects of the government on the economy, these models have assumed for simplicity that marginal tax rates equal the observed average tax rates, and that marginal...

Recent analysis by researchers at the U.S. Census Bureau claims that by reconstructing the tabular data released from the 2010 Census, it is possible to reconstruct the original data and, using an accurate external data file with identity, reidentify 179 million respondents (approximately 58% of...