Purpose: This paper aims to elucidate some of the complexity around food consumption by drawing from neuroscience research of food as a motivated choice (i.e. a neurobehavioral process sensitive to dopaminergic response to food and environmental cues such as marketing). The authors explore the...

Purpose: This paper empirically tests the impact of capital sudden stops on the economic growth using quarterly data from 49 emerging economies. Design/methodology/approach: This paper applies the GMM dynamic panel estimation method. Findings: The results show that capital sudden stops can...

During the 1990s, China has experienced a surge in imports of services, particularly those of communication, insurance and other business services, despite the fact that the authorities have maintained a plethora of restrictive measures limiting access to the service sector. Not only does this...

We build an econometric model of a household's purchase incidence and brand choice decisions in complementary product categories to account for cross-category dependence in demand. Complementarity is modeled as the additional utility that a household derives from the joint consumption of brands...

In a controlled field experiment, we examine pairs of auctions for identical items under different conditions. We find that auction design features that are under the control of the auctioneer — including information transparency, number of simultaneous auctions, and the degree of overlap...

Cloud manufacturing task scheduling (CMTS) gains widespread attention in the cloud manufacturing (CMfg) community. At present, most related researches are mainly aimed at task-oriented scheduling and there are few researches considering user’ characteristics, like user preferences. In this...