Increasingly, consumers depend on social information channels, such as user-posted online reviews, to make purchase decisions. These reviews are assumed to be unbiased reflections of other consumers' experiences with the products or services. While extensively assumed, the literature has not...

The Bullwhip Effect amplifies demand variations through a supply network. Accordingly, we expect that the Bullwhip Effect decreases earnings quality and increases the uncertainty of the public information available to stock investors and creditors. Based on a sample of US public firms from 1998...

This study investigates whether and how insider trading in the credit default swap (CDS) market is influenced by the corporate board network, formed by interlocking boards. We find strong evidence that firms with a more centralized position in the board network experience a higher degree of...

In this study, building upon the relative performance evaluation framework and agency theory we study issues related to long-term as well as short-term compensation for CIOs. We reveal that long-term CIO compensation is linked to a firm’s stock performance while short-term CIO compensation is...

Online product reviews provided by consumers who previously purchased products have become a major information source for consumers and marketers regarding product quality. This study extends previous research by conducting a more compelling test of the effect of online reviews on sales. In...

Stock return comovement analysis is important to financial analysts, decision makers, and academic researchers, in many financial implications, such as, portfolio management, style investing, and market risk detecting. This paper examines firms' social media, in particular, microblogging...

Support Vector Machines (SVMs) have become a very popular technique in the machinelearningfield for classification problems. It was originally proposed for classification of twoclasses. Various multiclass models with a single objective have been proposed mostly based ontwo families of methods:...

Currently, under the background of carbon trading policy, carbon dioxide is given commodity properties for market trading within carbon trading policy. Relevant data show that in recent years, logistics enterprises have been facing continuously growing demand, and carbon emissions have...