A key feature of online gaming, which serves as an important measure of consumer engagement with a game, is level progression, wherein players make play-or-quit decisions at each level of the game. Understanding users’ level progression behavior is therefore fundamental to game designers. In...

Purpose: US policy makers have been looking at various ways to curb rising health care costs in USA, including ways to promote the use of generic drugs in lieu of brand drugs. In this broader context, the implementation of Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) in December 2013 will...

Panel survey data have been gaining importance in marketing. However, one challenge of estimating econometric models based on panel survey data is how to account for under reporting, that is, respondents do not report behavioral incidences which actually occur. Under reporting is especially...

We propose a structural model to study the effect of online product reviews on consumer purchases of experiential products. Such purchases are characterized by limited repeat purchase behavior of the same product item (such as a book title), but significant past usage experience with other...

Quantitative models in marketing typically focus on the household as the unit of analysis while ignoring the individual family members' behavior and behavioral interactions among household members. However, knowledge of such intra-household behavioral interaction enables marketers to target...

Over the past few years property management has become a prominent topic in Mainland China. The proprietors expect the property company to provide a broad range of services and deal with kinds of complaints. One of main duties of the property management is to provide a security patrol on the...

This paper uses the wavelet coherency method to reveal the timescale-varying driving mechanism of 12 different types of weather conditions data on risk measures of China's CEE system. First, we find that temperature may be a major factor influencing the co-movement pattern of China's CEE system...

We study the consequences of later marriage on later-life outcomes. China's family planning policies in the early 1970s---before the One-Child Policy (OCP)---regulated not only childbirth but also marriage. The recommended minimum marriage age of 25 years for men and 23 years for women was...

The market for fiat-referenced cryptoassets, commonly known as stablecoins, has expanded rapidly in recent years alongside the growth of the cryptoasset ecosystem. In fact, the market capitalization of stablecoins increased by more than 30 times since the beginning of 2020. What risks could...