Recommendation systems are critical tools for online retailers in their pursuit of enhanced operational performance and improved shopper experience. As such, firms invest heavily to improve their algorithms. Notwithstanding these efforts, there is usually a serious omission of demand-timing...

This paper studies how a bank regulator's aggregate and bank-specific information dis-closure policy affects social welfare. We apply global games to studying an economy where depositors, with strategic complementarities among them, face uncertainties about both aggregate and bank-specific...

This research explores how customer needs dispersion influences a firm's intent to outsource, and, if the firm does decide to outsource, how it can retain the potential cost advantages offered by a third-party supplier. Customer service plays a crucial role for firms to retain customers and spur...

Creative agriculture, a new agricultural format formed by integrating agriculture, tourism and creative industries, is an important part of the urban modern agriculture. Proceeding from the functional position as an ecological conservation area, Miyun creative agriculture has obtained rapid...