Using empirical default probabilities and profitability distributions, a simulation model is developed to identify the long-term value of relationships among differing credit rating and loan amount groups. According to the results generated from a set of lending relationships, agricultural...

Ignoring endogeneity when assessing investors' decisions carries the risk of biased estimates for the influence of exogeneous marketing variables. This study shows how to overcome this challenge by using Pólya trees in the quantification of impacts on investors' decisions. A total of 2255...

Ignoring endogeneity when assessing investors' decisions carries the risk of biased estimates for the influence of exogeneous marketing variables. This study shows how to overcome this challenge by using Pólya trees in the quantification of impacts on investors' decisions. A total of 2255...

The business profitability is an important issue for the hypermarket business around the world and vast literature was found on its measurements, model, and approaches of studied. In general, related literature showed that various methodologies have been used to estimate the profitability via...

The success of any user-generated content website depends crucially on its asset of content contributors. How firms should invest in the acquisition and retention of content contributors represents a novel question that is particularly important for these websites. We develop a vector...