In the container port performance evaluation, the heterogeneity of input or output measures often exist owing to non-controllable external factors such as geographical location, regional economy, political systems and so on. Therefore, it becomes imperative to investigate the individual input or...

This paper studies a dynamic equilibrium model of asset prices in a partially observable exchange economy. It shows that the precautionary savings motive in response to estimation uncertainty can dominate the risk aversion effect, resulting in the reduction of the equity premium over short...

Cross-docking operation is a logistics service mode aims to remove the storage and picking up functions of a warehouse, and coordinate goods loading between delivery vehicles and shipping vehicles. Transshipment is another logistic technique that allows goods to be conveyed from an overstocked...

This study empirically examines the impact of the interaction between market and default risk on corporate credit spreads. Using credit default swap (CDS) spreads, we find that average credit spreads decrease in GDP growth rate, but increase in GDP growth volatility and jump risk in the equity...

We conduct an analysis of the impact of foreign portfolio flows on the volatility of emerging markets, using a unique dataset consisting of aggregate daily trading by foreign investors in the Thai stock market between 1995 and 2002. We find that the effect of foreign flows on the volatility of...

We consider a continuous time dynamic pricing problem for selling a given number of items over a finite or infinite time horizon. The demand is price sensitive and follows a non-homogeneous Poisson process. We formulate this problem as to maximize the expected discounted revenue and obtain the...