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Open AccessTill We Have Red Faces: Drinking to Signal Trustworthiness in Contemporary China
Interpersonal networks facilitate business cooperation and socioeconomic exchange. But how can outsiders demonstrate their trustworthiness to join existing networks? Focusing on the puzzling yet common phenome...
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Rule of Law Enhancement, Innovation Incentives, and Business Performance: Evidence from China’s IPCs
This study aims to determine the relationship between judicial protection of intellectual property rights (IPRs), innovation, and firm performance. Using the establishment of intellectual property courts (IPCs...
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Cultural Barriers to Digital Innovation: Understanding the Impact of Gambling Culture on Chinese Firms
This study explores the complex relationship between gambling culture and digital transformation within Chinese enterprises, focusing on A-share listed companies from 2008 to 2021. Through rigorous empirical a...
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From Theory to Practice: Role-Playing and Knowledge Building in Digital Learning Environments
In today’s educational landscape, critical thinking, communication, collaboration, problem-solving, and information literacy are essential skills. This study examines the relationship between knowledge constru...
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Chinese Ideology in the Political Education of Students: How Does Ideology-Based Teaching Impact Students’ Consciousness?
Ideological and political education shapes students’ personality and their value orientations and is a significant factor in determining professional success. Due to the historical characteristics of the count...
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Carbon fee and climate governance delayism in Taiwan
After three unsuccessful attempts to implement an energy tax, Taiwan introduced a carbon fee system through an amendment to the Greenhouse Gas Reduction and Management Act at the end of 2020, opening a fourth ...
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Buy it now or later, or not: loss aversion in advance purchasing
This paper studies the advance-purchase game when a consumer has belief-based loss-averse preference, introducing a novel perspective by incorporating reference updating. It demonstrates that loss aversion inc...
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Environmental policy, licensing strategy, and social welfare
This paper sets up a three-stage game (technology licensing, emission tax, and output) in which one foreign firm owns both process technology and environmental technology. We compare three types of licensing s...
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Open AccessScreening Through Investment: Evidence from the Chinese Automobile Industry
This paper proposes a competition theory to explain the role of automobile dealers’ investment in a vertical contract with manufacturers. Dealer contracts specify manufacturer-suggested retail prices and eleme...
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Gender tax difference in the U.S. income tax
Unmarried women face a significantly lower average federal income tax rate than unmarried men, 6.3% versus 10.9%. Some of the difference arises because women have lower income on average and the tax system is ...
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Finding the \(\mathrm{K}\) Mean-Standard Deviation Shortest Paths Under Travel Time Uncertainty
The mean-standard deviation shortest path problem (MSDSPP) incorporates the travel time variability into the routing optimization. The idea is that the decision-maker wants to minimize the travel time not only...
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Efficient mask allocation during a pandemic
We analyze the allocation of face masks to minimize mortality during a pandemic through airborne transmission. When the initial distribution of masks is private information, the optimal allocation achieved by ...
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Open AccessMortality models ensemble via Shapley value
Model averaging techniques in the actuarial literature aim to forecast future longevity appropriately by combining forecasts derived from various models. This approach often yields more accurate predictions th...
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Can the greening of the tax system improve enterprises’ ESG performance? Evidence from China
Can the greening of the tax system truly drive high-quality development of enterprises? ESG, as an investment concept and evaluation criterion focusing on corporate sustainable development, is an essential too...
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A Study on the Impact of Free Trade Zones on Regional Service Innovation Capability: Experimental Evidence from Guangdong Province Free Trade Zone
This paper uses the time cycle of nearly 20 years from 1999 to 2018, using the relevant panel data of 31 provinces and municipalities directly under the central government. Taking the establishment of Guangdon...
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Technology Licensing under Successive Monopoly
Assume that there is an outside innovator who owns a cost-reducing innovation and the market structure of the industry in question is that of successive monopoly. It is found that, an innovation that is aimed ...
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Commodity taxation principle, heterogeneous goods, and endogenous choice between price and quantity contracts
In the context of firms’ endogenous choice between price and quantity contracts, we show that when firms choose different strategic variables under the destination principle, the government of the quantity-ori...
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Enhancing E-commerce Management with Machine Learning and Internet of Things: Design and Development
China’s rapid progress in e-commerce and logistics warehousing has introduced a new era of efficient and high-quality industries, presenting new problems for training professionals in logistics. The need for i...
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Fertility and the oil curse
The paper empirically investigates whether oil abundance affects fertility in a panel of develo** and developed countries for 1970–2020. The exploration sheds light into why poor develo** economies rich in...
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Spatial monitoring to reduce COVID-19 vaccine hesitance
Arthur Getis is a pioneer in spatial statistics. His collaboration with Keith Ord has inspired our long-standing collaboration between a geographer and a statistician. Getis often tackled real-world infectious...
