The rise of Fintech in the past decade has received growing scholarly attention. This paper surveys Fintech-related articles published in leading finance, accounting, and management journals from 2010 to 2019. It aims to generate a taxonomy of Fintech and accumulate knowledge in the fields of...

This paper analyzes the tradeoff between (demand) substitution costs and (production) changeover costs in a discrete-time production-inventory setting using a two-product dynamic lot-sizing model with changeover, inventory carrying, and substitution costs. We first show that the problem is...

This paper presents a generalized model to investigate forecast horizons for a twoproduct dynamic lot-sizing model under production changeover and one-way demand substitution. Changeover costs emerge when production switches from one product to another. A high-grade product can be used to...

For most multi-period decision-making problems, it is generally well-accepted that the influence of information about later periods on the optimal decision in the current period reduces as we move farther into the future. If and when this influence reduces to zero, the corresponding problem...

This paper presents a formal model that characterizes the political mechanisms of demographic change, establishing a critical link in economic development. We demonstrate that fertility decisions are determined by three fundamental political variables: political stability, political capacity and...

This paper presents a formal model that characterizes the political mechanisms of demographic change, establishing a critical link in economic development. We demonstrate that fertility decisions are determined by three fundamental political variables: political stability, political capacity and...

This paper investigates the effect of CEO equity incentives on corporate spin-off decisions. We find that CEOs with stronger equity incentives are more likely to engage in corporate spin-offs and the announcements of such spin-offs are positively received by the market, as evidenced by both...

This paper examines the impact of mandatory option expensing on executive compensation. Although it merely changes the way option costs are disclosed (in footnotes or expensed in income statement), mandatory option expensing may actually alter the optimal contract between firms and their CEOs....

Purpose – This paper seeks to contribute to the existing capital structure and board structure literature by examining the relationship among corporate governance, ownership structure and capital structure.Design/methodology/approach – The paper employs a panel data of 595 firm-year...