This study examines the dynamic change in the regional e-commerce transactions divides in China from 2013 to 2019 using convergence analysis methods. We use population-adjusted annual e-commerce transaction data from 31 provinces. These provinces are categorized into the three varying levels of...

Countries through the world have experienced increased globalization over the last several decades facilitated by reduced cost of transportation and communication and more recently by more rapid deployment of information technologies. However, a globalization gap exists dividing those countries...

Road crashes kill about 1.3 million people worldwide every year and severely injure an estimated 50 million. This paper examines two associated questions of convergence as to whether countries with initially high fatality rate tend to improve faster to catch-up. Also, we examined whether...

For strategic purposes of setting price and productivity targets, organisations need to make projection of long-term cost as well as short-term cost estimation. For long-term cost estimation, organisations do rely on the experience curve among other methodologies. However, for short-term cost...

Both the Federal government and individual state governments in the US establish long-term road fatality targets to plan and evaluate the effectiveness of their respective safety programs. The purpose of this paper is to develop a simple fatality projection model to project future fatality rates...