This paper reviews the evolution of China''s real effective exchange rate between 1980 and 2002, and uses a structural vector autoregression model to study the relative importance of different types of macroeconomic shocks for fluctuations in the real exchange rate. The structural decomposition...

In this paper, we analyze the asymmetric pure strategy equilibria in a dynamic game of pure information externality. Each player receives a private signal and chooses whether and when to invest. In some of the periods, only a subgroup of the players make decisions, which we call bunching, while...

Visual hand gesture interaction is one of the main ways of human-computer interaction, and provides users more interactive degrees of freedom and more realistic interactive experience. Authors present a hybrid model based on SVM-LSTM, and design a three-dimensional dynamic gesture interaction...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine the contradictory effect of coldness in advertisement and brand logo design. Design/methodology/approach: The authors conduct four experiments to test the influences of coldness on consumers’ attitude. In the first two experiments, the...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to construct a two-stage risk management framework for international construction projects based on the meta-network analysis (MNA) approach. A plethora of international construction studies seems to assume risks as independent and therefore, risk...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to apply the self-determination theory (SDT) to propose a research model that incorporates the SDT framework and contextual variables as determinants and self-identity and social identity as mediating constructs to predict individuals’ intentions toward...