Using a modified spillover index approach from the perspective of financial shocks transmission, this study is the first to explore China’s financial institution (FI) network after the global financial crisis, allowing for interactions with the financial sectors of four major global economies....

We deal with a retailer's multi-product inventory system where customers randomly seek acceptable substitutes if their initial requests are not satisfied. If the substitute is also unavailable, the sales request is lost. Besides the already complex multi-product inventory management problem...

This paper examines pairwise intercity price-volume dynamics in China using novel daily transaction prices and volume dataset from 32 Chinese cities. Despite geographical disparity and time variations, the volume-volume dynamic relationship plays a noticeably more significant role than...

We are concerned with the stability of partition-allocation pairs in a coalitional game, i.e., a transferable-utility (TU) cooperative game. Our criterion boils down to the impossibility for the current allocation to be Pareto-dominated by any other allocation that might arise from any fission...

In this paper we examine dynamic relationships among wheat prices from five countries for the years 1981-1999. Error correction models and directed acyclic graphs are employed with observational data to sort-out the dynamic causal relationships among prices from major wheat producing regions:...