Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine merchandise performance-based financial productivity of offshore vs reshore sourcing scenarios for fashion/seasonal products with higher demand uncertainty, using computer simulation software. Design/methodology/approach: Using Sourcing...

We first consider the random censorship model of survival analysis. The pairs of positive random variables ($X sb{i},Y sb{i}$), i = 1,$ ...$,n, are independent and identically distributed, with distribution functions F(t) = P($X sb{i} leq t$) and G(t) = P($Y sb{i} leq t$) and the Y's are...

This paper investigates the effects of export in the underpricing phenomenon of the Chinese IPO markets, using data from 1,285 IPO firms listed on the Shanghai and Shenzhen Exchanges from 1987 to 2015, and find that exports have a negative effect on initial returns. Second, the effect of exports...

The proportional odds model is a popular regression model for ordinal categorical responses, which has a rather strong underlying assumption, the proportional odds assumption. The rejection of the null assumption, however, is not very informative since a statistical significance does not...