Internet-based platforms are increasingly being used by governments around the world to facilitate public engagement with citizens. However, it remains an open question whether participation through these platforms can actually enable citizens to influence policies. We address this question by...

This paper estimates the causal impact of China's targeted poverty alleviation program on the academic achievement of students from poor households. We use the longitudinal academic records of a cohort of students from all middle schools in a nationally designated poor county in China. Using the...

We experimentally investigate the effect of timing of implementation of decisions on trust and trustworthiness. In the “Now” treatment, a standard trust game is run and subjects receive payment in the same date of the experiment. In the “Later” treatment, subjects make decisions in the...

Product returns is a widespread phenomenon associated with online retailing, where both consumer behavior and retailers' operation decisions are inextricable topics. To improve the returns experience, retailers have forayed into omnichannel return operations and consumers are sophisticated...

This paper estimates the causal impact of China's targeted poverty alleviation program on the academic achievement of students from poor households. We use the longitudinal academic records of a cohort of students from all middle schools in a nationally designated poor county in China. Using the...

This paper considers optimal infinite horizon stochastic production planning problems with capacity and demand to be finite state Markov chains. The existence of the optimal feedback control is shown with the aid of viscosity solutions to the dynamic programming equations. Turnpike set concepts...

This paper theorizes and tests how chief executive officer (CEO)'s value of self-enhancement and self-transcendence, influence corporate innovation activities. We hypothesize that CEOs' values of self-enhancement — focusing on the leader's own benefit — would relate negatively to corporate...

In this paper, we consider a production planning problem in a two-machine flowshop subject to breakdown and repair of machines and subject to non-negativity constraints on work-in-process. The machine capacities and demand processes are assumed to be finite state Markov chains. The problem is to...