Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate management decisions via option contracts in a two-stage supply chain in which a fresh produce supplier sells to a retailer, considering the circulation loss of the fresh produce. Design/methodology/approach: Authors propose a Stackelberg...

Starting from the theoretical mechanism of the impact of financial agglomeration on regional green innovation efficiency, and using panel data from 30 provinces in China from 2009 to 2017, this study calculates a financial agglomeration index and green innovation efficiency applying principal...

We consider optimal nonlinear pricing when there is information ambiguity in a monopolist’s prior belief about the distribution of the buyers. The monopolist’s prior information cannot be described by a probabilistic distribution; rather, it is described by an ϵ-contaminated capacity. We...

Retail consumers in the UK cryptocurrency market exhibit characteristics that should trigger alarm. Using the Financial Conduct Authority Financial Lives 2020 survey data set, I find that approximately three-quarters of cryptocurrency investors can be classified as low-net-worth individuals....

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is, to examine the optimal pricing and ordering strategy of two competing chains with customer returns in Bertrand-Nash game and Stackelberg game, and to investigate in what cases the manufacturer can make more profits from customer returns policy....

A new decision process is proposed to address the challenge that a large number criteria in the multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) problem and the decision makers with heterogeneous risk preferences. First, from the perspective of objective data, the effective criteria are extracted based on...

This study investigates the impact of economic policy uncertainty (EPU) on the volatility of European Union (EU) carbon futures prices and whether it has predictive power for the volatility of carbon futures prices. The GARCH-MIDAS model is applied for evaluating the impact of different EPU...

This research aims to measure the impact of energy poverty in Pakistan and its effect on the social wellbeing of individuals in Pakistan. This thought of energy destitution toward the family doesn't surely know with regards to literature as it might allude to either 'economic poor' or 'energy...

Much attention has been paid to the complex risk transmission between carbon and energy markets along with the increasing global financial market integration. This research thus uses the DCC-MVGARCH model and spillover index method to investigate volatility linkages between the European carbon...