We consider a manufacturer that procures raw material through a long-term contract and spot markets to produce goods to be sold in a market that consists of risk-averse strategic consumers. To increase consumer demand and obtain demand information, the manufacturer may implement an advance...

Green product design is an effective instrument for achieving a circular economy. Topromote green product development, downstream retailers often enter into contracts with upstreammanufacturers and market green products. This study considers a decentralized green product supply chain comprising...

We use household data from northeast China to examine the link between investment and land tenure insecurity induced by China's system of village-level land reallocation. We quantify expropriation risk using a hazard analysis of individual plot tenures and incorporate the predicted "hazards of...

Chinese farmers rely increasingly on nonfarm activities to enhance their incomes. Previous studies identify human capital as a key factor in the selection of workers in the rural nonfarm sector, but these studies ignore the role of social networks, i.e., guanxi. Using data from a detailed...

Little is known about the magnitude of China's SOE labor redundancy and the patterns and determinants of job creation. Such knowledge gap makes it difficult for decision-makers to provide prescriptions for China's labor problems. This paper uses a panel data of Chinese provinces between 1986 to...

The overall goal of our paper is to estimate the impact of China's land rights on farm investment incentives and agricultural production. To meet the goal, the paper pursues three specific objectives. First, the paper briefly reviews the various linkages between land rights and investment...

We examine the impact of environmental diplomacy on a country’s carbon emission level. Specifically, we test if the signing of environmental treaties yielded positive responses in CO2 emission. We employ common correlated effects mean group models on panel data of 76 developed and developing...

Alternative machines assignment, machine sharing, and inter-cell movements are very common yet difficult to be solved integratedly in modern dynamic Cellular Manufacturing Systems (CMS). In this paper, we incorporate these issues and consider a dynamic cellular scheduling problem with flexible...

In 2021, the global motion picture market, consisting of streaming and theatrical movies, had a combined total revenue of 99.7 billion dollars. It is also evolving in a very interesting way: “The digital movie market accounted for 72% of the combined theatrical and home/mobile entertainment...

The biofilm resistance of microorganisms has severe economic and environmental implications, especially the contamination of facilities associated with human life, including medical implants, air-conditioning systems, water supply systems, and food-processing equipment, resulting in the...