This conceptual paper puts forth sources of secondary and primary data that can assist destinations in developed countries track and ultimately improve their communities' tourism performance and resilience across four pillars of tourism sustainability: visitor economy, resident support,...

On January 8, 2021, China's first live-animal and live-delivery futures product—in live hogs—was listed on the Dalian Commodity Exchange (DCE) to serve as a risk management tool. Our paper examines whether this newly-established market realized its primary functions of market quality, price...

Crowdfunding is a new form of product development that presents an idea to the public in order to fundraise from many individuals, thereby eventually commercializing the idea into a product. During the past couple of years, crowdfunding has become popular and meanwhile has become an important...

We analytically characterize the comparative statics of the macroeconomy after in- come tax reductions in which productions are organized in networks. We contribute to the literature by showing that the sectoral income tax reductions’s first-order effect on the GDP is given by a sufficient...

The recovery and reuse of adsorbents is crucial for the effectiveness and sustainability of mitigation methods for groundwater pollution. Considering the difficulty in recovering powder materials and the low mechanical strength of membrane materials, we developed a sheet material with good...

Automatic Generation Control (AGC) and Automatic Voltage Control (AVC) are key approaches to frequency and voltage regulation in power systems. However, based on the assumption of decoupling of active and reactive power control, the existing AGC and AVC systems work independently without any...

Combined Cooling, Heating and Power (CCHP) systems have been widely used in different kinds of buildings to make better use of fuels because of their high overall efficiency. This paper presents a mathematical analysis of a CCHP system in comparison to a Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning...

Many travel-related products and services are hedonically driven consumption. However, the hedonic experience of travel-related consumption is not well understood. This study examines the hedonic experience of a travel-related consumption event at its pre-consumption, consumption and...

Service consumptions often involve sharing the service environment with other consumers. Despite the prevalent presence of other consumers in service settings, research in other consumers is sporadic. The global objective of this dissertation is to examine consumers emotional responses to...