Enabled by Web 2.0 technologies, online social media in the forms of discussion forums, message boards, and blogs has become a prevalent channe lof communication for consumers and businesses. Online social media allows consumers to share their product opinions and experience at an unprecedented...

This paper exploits the exogenous rise of Chinese imports in US to investigate the effect of import competition on crime at the county level. The results indicate that counties with high exposure to Chinese import competition have high crime rates. The exposure effect on property crime is much...

There are two general challenges for social planners in the combat against a pandemic. The first is how to improve private incentives for anti-pandemic consumptions that exhibit widespread externality, and the second is how to trade off between efficiency and ethical values such as equality and...

“Buying local†has become one of the most important trends in food marketing. Despite widespread public attention, the influence of the “local†attribute on food prices is not well understood. We aim to begin to fill this gap in research by exploring the presence of a price...

Blockchain technology has been increasingly adopted in supply chain finance. This study investigates how payment programs - digital voucher financing and transfer programs - are facilitated by blockchain and compares them with traditional bank financing. Using a game-theory approach, we inspect...

Problem definition: Customers typically judge a service's waiting based on their perception, which is often longer than the actual waiting time. Thus, managing perceived waiting time is key for service providers and leads to various psychology-based approaches, including a rising star -- Virtual...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to review the food supply chain management (FSCM) in terms of systems and implementations so that observations and lessons from this research could be useful for academia and industrial practitioners in the future. Design/methodology/approach A systematical...