Mobile application usage is becoming an essential activity in many people's daily lives. Compared with PC internet, mobile internet usage is ubiquitous, temporally fragmented, and more context-dependent. Thus far research is limited on the mechanism of mobile app usage and the effects of...

There exists large geographic variation in the distribution of local retail establishments in emerging markets. With the rapid development of the mobile internet in recent years, consumers in underdeveloped markets have gained access to mobile shopping. This paper examines whether the usage of...

When Adam Smith wrote the Wealth of Nations in 1776, he concluded that individuals, firms, and nations obtain comparative advantage by specialization. Markets worked as the invisible hand to efficiently allocate resources between specialized parties. During the Industrial Revolution,...