Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of three types of peer monitoring and punishment tools on the performance of a group contract for the control of agricultural non-point source pollution (ANPSP) in China. Design/methodology/approach: Experimental economics....

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to present a simple yet effective force control scheme for collaborative robots by addressing the problem of disturbance rejection in joint torque: inherent actuator flexibility and nonlinear friction. Design/methodology/approach: In this paper, a joint...

Information goods providers adopt the freemium model to increase their user base and maximize their profits. However, a serious piracy problem cannibalizes the demand for legal goods and deeply harms firms' interests. We investigate the optimal pricing of information goods under the freemium...

Off-Balance-Sheet activities are special means of credit expansion of commercial banks, which can affect banks' assets allocation decisions, loans supplies, and the bank lending channel of monetary policy transmission. This paper analyses the impact of OBS activities on banks’ asset allocation...