In May 2016, Uber and Lyft suspended services following the defeat of Proposition 1 in Austin, TX. In May 2017, they relaunched service after Proposition 1 was overridden. This paper describes a pilot study aimed at predicting whether those who are using services from other transportation...

In China, tobacco consumption is a leading risk factor for non-communicable diseases, and understanding the pattern of socio-economic inequalities of tobacco consumption will, thus, help to develop targeted policies of public health control. Data came from the China Health and Retirement...

The mobile app of a transportation network company (TNC) allows the TNC platform to run aggressive and diverse sales promotion to help introducing new product to two sides of users. This paper examines how two-sided sales promotion affects drivers' willingness to use the TNC app and how the TNC...

Previous work has analyzed whether luminosity data contain useful information for estimating economic output and concluded that there was significant promise for regions with poor quality economic statistics. The present paper examines alternative measures of the precision of the estimates using...

Retailers often conduct non-overlapping sequential online auctions as a revenue generation and inventory clearing tool. We build a stochastic dynamic programming model for the seller’s lot-size decision problem in these auctions. The model incorporates a random number of participating bidders...

Relative deprivation (RD), also known as relative poverty, an idea implicitly put forward by Adam Smith in The Wealth of Nations and formally conceptualized by Runciman (1966), refers to the discontent people feel when they compare their positions to others and realize that others in the group...