This study investigates the sensitivity of on-street parking demand using the automatic transaction data from parking pay stations obtained before and after a parking rate change that was implemented in Seattle in early 2011. The parking rate implementation is based on performance-based pricing...

The effects of fuel price on travel demand for different income groups reveal the choices and constraints they are faced with. The first purpose of this study is to understand these underlying choices and constraints by examining the variation of fuel price elasticity of vehicle miles travelled...

The RIETI inventor survey, which was conducted in 2007, invited inventors to contribute their views and opinions on the constraints on the R&D performance of their organizations, and the policies and managerial agenda for improving it. A total of 1,300 inventors (around one quarter of those who...

This paper combines risk assessment principles with odor measurement concepts to develop a risk management tool that assists water reclamation plants' administrators to identify, predict, and interpret the magnitude of risk associated with occupational odor perception. Analogous to the...

Purpose: Because of short life cycle and fluctuating greatly in total sales volumes (TSV), it is difficult to accumulate enough sales data and mine an attribute set reflecting the common needs of all consumers for a kind of experiential product with short life cycle (EPSLC). Methods for...

We study how climate risk shapes financial-reporting conservatism with data collected from 47 countries, and document that firms facing more extreme weather conditions use less unconditional conservatism but more conditional conservatism in financial reporting. Furthermore, such impacts of...