We investigate the impact of customers' cybersecurity breaches (CSBs) on its supplier's relationship-specific investment decisions and the duration of supplier-customer relationship. We document a significant negative association between customer reported CSBs and suppliers'...

Part I: Microfinance -- 1. Can Microfinance Achieve Both Social and Financial Goals? -- 2. Boundaries of Microfinance -- Part II: Financing of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises -- 3. Solving the Financing Difficulty of SMEs by Community Construction -- 4. Big Bank, Small Finance -- Part III:...

Although mandatory audit partner rotation has become prevalent worldwide, prior empirical research seldom considers how the successor partners are identified and the economic consequences of different rotation strategies. We examine the importance of internal networks to the selection of...

Viewing audit teams as social groups of auditors, we utilize network analysis algorithm “n-clans” to identify clustering of individual auditors, that is, audit teams, based on individual collaboration history. Drawing upon social learning theory, we argue that team network connectedness,...

This article examines the exercise practices of a group of faculty members at a regional university who for a decade have participated in their own racquetball league. These professors self-organized their exercise regimen and during the period of their participation have found significant...

The subject matter of this paper concerns the natural price barriers that markets encounter. The ideas in this paper can be applied to any market: equity, commodity, currency or fixed income. It is common market experience that prices (or yields) exhibit resistance and support: at key levels...

This book proposes a method for calculating China’s debt based on a quantitative econometric analysis. This is conducted by measuring the relationship between China’s debt size and economic growth. The conclusion that is reached is as follows: China’s current debt has already exceeded the...

Most existing social learning models assume that there is only one underlying true state. In this work, we consider a social learning model with multiple true states, in which agents in different groups receive different signal sequences generated by their corresponding underlying true states....

Having a clear understanding of consumers' awareness of genetically modified food and their willingness to buy, plays a very important role in formulating the regulatory policy of genetically modified food and regulating the market of genetically modified food. This paper takes the supermarket...