Consolidation of commodities and coordination of vehicle routes are fundamental features of supply chain management problems. While locations for consolidation and coordination are typically known a priori, in adaptive transportation networks this is not the case. The identification of such...

Using administrative data on the Chinese National College Entrance Examination, we study how heuristic information processing affects individuals' self-evaluation when applying to colleges. We find evidence that, despite individuals' tendency to seek evidence to enhance self-esteem, there is...

Business tendency survey indicators are widely recognized as a key instrument for business cycle forecasting. Their leading indicator property is assessed with regard to forecasting industrial production in Russia and Germany. For this purpose, vector autoregressive (VAR) models are specified...