We study a rational expectations equilibrium economy where agents learn from the actions of others by adopting the simple average of ex ante optimal strategies of their social network. When information is exogenous, large social networks benefit all agents if and only if agents are relatively...

Introduction -- Buyback Contracts with Price-dependent Demands: Effects of Demand Uncertainty -- Mean-Risk Analysis of Wholesale Price Contracts with Stochastic Price-dependent Demand -- Franchise Fee Contracts in Product Service System with Demand Information Asymmetry -- Coordination of Supply...

This book is a comparative study of the critical factors in berth productivity in Chinese and South Korean container terminals. It first defines the concept of berth productivity, and then establishes a regression model to evaluate the productivity factor. With the results obtained for the...

Crude oil price series are nonlinear and highly volatile, making it difficult to obtain satisfactory performance for traditional statistical-based forecasting methods. To improve prediction accuracy, this study proposes a novel learning paradigm by integrating the trajectory similarity method...

Existing research has shown that the political crisis events can directly impact the tourism industry. However, the current methods suffer from potential changes of unobserved variables, which poses challenges for a reliable evaluation of the political crisis impacts. This paper proposes a panel...

This monograph consists of two parts. One part is portfolio selection theory and the other part is capital asset pricing theory. For each part, a comprehensive review of the original theory, efforts to improve the theory afterwards and future works to be done are presented. Some innovative...

This book provides cutting-edge research results and application experiences from researchers and practitioners in multiple criteria decision making areas. It consists of three parts: MCDM Foundation and Theory, MCDM Methodology, and MCDM Applications. In Part I, it covers the historical MCDM...

The rapidly developing online food delivery business is a novel “ecosystem” involving digital platforms, restaurants, delivery-workers, and customers. Continuous expansion of its market size is accompanied by problems of economic fairness such as “wage distribution” and “revenue...