Widespread commercialization of PCM-based latent heat storage systems is limited by the low melting and solidification rates during the phase transition process. In this study, fins are used to enhance the phase change process. A parametric study is conducted to understand the effect of fins on...

Over the past decade, rising youth use of e-cigarettes and other electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS) has contributed to aggressive regulation by state and local governments. Between 2010 and mid-2019, ten states and two large counties adopted ENDS taxes. We use two large national surveys...

Manmade climate change (CC) has catastrophic consequences. The United States has already experienced wholesale population realignment due to climate as households have relocated to the Sunbelt and West. The irony is that people are moving towards the heat and major storms associated with CC. As...

The impact of climate change has drawn growing interests from both researchers and policymakers. Yet, relatively little is known with respect to its influence on interregional migration. The surge of extreme weather conditions could lead to the increase of forced migration from coastal to inland...

New ecommerce model called online to offline (O2O) e-commerce has gotten significant managerial and academic attention these years. One of its latest developments in travel industry is opaque selling, which facilitates service providers to provide a new channel to customers. This study uses game...

Motivated by the recent opaque selling trend promoted by Priceline and Hotwire, this paper studies a game where two collaborative service providers may use an opaque selling channel to satisfy the demand from leisure and business customers. It is a strategic decision for service providers which...

Hospitals today are posed with many requirements arising from government regulations and financial incentives to improve patient experiential quality. An administrative challenge thus results from hospital complexity, which can circumvent efforts to enhance experiential quality. This study...

Monetary policies of the United States have increasingly become more proactive and substantive. Existing scholarship finds that US monetary policies have had clear economic spillover effects on financial markets across borders, given the dollar’s central position in the international monetary...

Over the past decade, rising youth use of e-cigarettes and other electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS) has prompted aggressive regulation by state and local governments. Between 2010 and 2019, ten states and two large counties adopted ENDS taxes. Applying a continuous treatment...