In contrast to the hostility shown in some other countries towards one of the most important examples of a sharing economy service, namely car hailing, China has always kept an open-minded attitude to this innovative Internet business model. After having been tolerant of unlicensed operations...

U.S. long-term treasury debt serves the important role of safe and liquid assets in the economy, hence carrying significant convenience yields. We present two new findings relating the convenience yield to inflation and government fiscal policy. First, the convenience yield of treasury debt is...

Chinese dwarf cherry ( Cerasus humilis ), which is well known as “calcium fruit” for its high calcium content, is widely utilized in North China for its ecological and economical value. Understanding the evolutionary history and genetic basis underlying the calcium accumulation in this fruit...

Risk management has become an essential issue in supply chain management, from the modeling of the decision maker's risk preference, and the studies on uncertain elements such as demand, supply, price, lead time, etc., to the consideration of more practical background including cash flow...

Purpose – This study expounds that logistics enterprises should make use of an information-sharing mechanism, benefit distribution mechanism, and government guarantee mechanism to optimize and balance resource allocation with cooperative participants.Design/Methodology/Approach – This study...

Traditional art pricing models often lack fine measurements of painting content. This paper proposes a new content measurement: the Shannon information quantity measured by the singular value decomposition (SVD) entropy of the painting image. Using a large sample of artworks' auction records and...

Going beyond the conventional mean-variance framework, this paper investigates the dynamic higher moment price linkages among carbon, crude oil and financial markets. The analysis is based on a novel Quantile Impulse Response method which can generate the evolution of all moments based on a...

The framework for this paper is as follows: firstly, it focuses on the context in which social enterprises emerge in China. Secondly, considering that China has not yet devised a specific legal form for social enterprises but rather grants a social enterprise status through certification, this...

The rapid advancement and adoption of blockchain technology has heralded an explosive growth of Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) as a new and popular fundraising approach for blockchain start-ups. To advertise their project before the ICO and to motivate blockchain individuals to invest in the...