This paper investigates the optimal private health insurance contract design problem considering the joint interests of a policyholder and an insurer. They jointly determine the premium of a private health insurance. To better reflect the reality, the illness expenditure is governed by an...

This study investigates whether reliance on monetary donations alters nonprofit firms' behaviors. Specifically, in the hospice industry, shortening patients' length of stay (LOS) speeds turnover, allowing a hospice to serve more patients and expand its donation network. We measure hospices'...

Resale of used products may shrink the new-product market and create the cannibalization problem. This problem is exacerbated in the digital goods market because copies of digital goods can be perfect substitutes of the original. Many digital goods/service producers take advantage of technology...

Live-streaming advertising in e-commerce is soaring. Both Amazon and Alibaba have employedthis novel marketing model to engage consumers by sequentially exhibiting differentproducts through live-streaming videos. In this paper we adopt a mechanism design frameworkto model live-streaming...

Purpose: This study explores the effective regulation of institutional investor's encroachment behavior in stock market. Given the theoretical and practical importance, the present study examines the effect of the self-adaptive regulation strategy (adjusting the regulation factors such as...

This paper establishes mixed duopoly game-theoretical models to investigate the economic impacts exerted by privatization in the presence of the environmental pollution. When the residents' environmental preference is introduced to the public firm's objective function, we mainly find that...

The notion of omnichannel, an integration of brick-and-mortar stores with online channels, has been thriving in recent years and is reforming the traditional service industry. Many service chains, such as Starbucks and McDonald's, have been establishing omnichannel capability by allowing...