On the basis of analyzing essence of land ticket system of Chongqing Municipality and its transaction process, this paper studies the relationship between government and farmers and between city and countryside, and discusses the drawbacks of land ticket system in Chongqing Municipality. Results...

Problem definition: The success of a gig platform is crucially driven by its ability to retain service providers. However, gig workers are independent contractors whose working schedules are not fully controlled by the platform. To overcome this challenge, gig platforms have commonly relied on...

Practitioners and academics alike have argued that a firm's interest in its short-term capital market valuation (short-termism) is harmful to the firm's long-term profit. Their argument is intuitive -- when a firm exhibits short-termism, its decision making will cater to the short-term at the...

We formulate the problem of designing a personalized recommendation system for an online business-to-business (B2B) marketplace, propose a method to solve it, and evaluate results using field experiments. In this problem, buyers place requests for quotation (RFQs) to the platform, sellers...

We examine whether and how investors misprice the components of net periodic pension cost under SFAS No. 87 and 158. We find that investors appear to have difficulty in understanding the transitory feature of other net periodic pension cost (PPOPCC) and thus overestimate its persistence, which...

The changes in intermetallic phases of Mg-6%Al-5%Pb (Mg-Al-Pb) alloys prepared by powder metallurgy and their effects on electrochemical properties were studied. The experimental results showed that Al powder and Pb powder formed coarse Mg 17 Al 12 phases (with size from 20 μm to 70 μm) and...