Purpose: This study examines the factors affecting the online shopping behavior of agricultural products in inner Mongolia on e-Commerce - a case study of the Douyin platform. The dependent variable is agricultural products of characteristics purchases, while independent variables are perceived...

Home prices have surged in major Chinese cities, leading to concerns of asset price bubbles and housing affordability. The policy of home purchase restrictions (HPR) has been one of China's harshest housing market interventions to squeeze out speculative demand and dampen the soaring home...

In this paper, we investigate how subway expansions have impacted the geographic concentration of consumer amenities within four global cities, namely Santiago, Singapore, Barcelona and São Paulo. Thereby, we delve into which neighborhoods benefit more and which suffer deficits from improved...

We study the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on restaurant visits in the post-lockdown era in the U.S., from the lens of social interactions. We construct a “social index” based on pre-pandemic mobile phone data to measure levels of social interactions that happened in different restaurants....