To infer product fitness information, consumers often consult digital influencers who exert effort to learn and evaluate product features and then propagate information to their followers. However, influencers' recommendations are not limited to products that exactly match their expertise, which...

This paper offers a continuous time, general equilibrium model where a risky asset is traded among risk-averse overconfident investors. Two kinds of overconfidence are introduced: investors exhibit relative overconfidence if each investor believes her model is better than others' and aggregate...

The global adoption of RFID technology presents a number of challenges to IT architecture design. This paper identifies important requirements for RFID data provisioning at an abstract architecture level. A non-invasive architecture style is proposed to satisfy these requirements. Our proposed...

Consider n i.i.d. random elements on C[0, 1]. We show that under an appropriate strengthening of the domain of attraction condition, natural estimators of the extreme-value index, which is now a continuous function, and the normalizing functions have a Gaussian process as limiting distribution....

Through which channels, physical or cognitive, can air pollution influence worker performance? This question has not been answered in the literature. Using a unique dataset on the performance of soccer players in China, we investigate the effect of air pollution on different performance...

Toluene is one of the main volatile organic compounds (VOCs) from industrial emissions, its control through catalytic combustion becomes more imperative to meet the stringent regulations. In this study, a series of Ag/Ce x Zr 1-x O 2 monolithic catalysts with different Ce/Zr ratios were prepared...

Residential self-selection has been reported to be a factor confounding the observed relationship between built environment and travel behavior. By incorporating residential self-selection, studies have generated much insight into the causalities involved in the relationship between built...