On the basis of an understanding that the crises of core nations are being transferred to developing countries and thus globalized, this article highlights two issues, the ‘sovereignty externalities’ borne by developing countries and the ‘currency–strategy’ of...

The Agreement on U.S.-China Agricultural Cooperation was signed on April 10 of this year [1999], under conditions in which China clearly made significant concessions. After signing the agreement, the U.S. government announced that the United States would "firmly support the People's Republic of...

Wen Tiejun, the School of Agriculture and Rural Development at Renmin University, talked about economic and agricultural policies in China. The accompanying audio file provides the complete recording and audience discussion of the talk given by the author. Those who download the audio file must...

This paper addresses the single-period joint inventory and pricing decision problem considering strategic customers with risk preference and decreasing value. Comparing with the classical newsvendor model, strategic customer behavior leads to a lower ordering quantity, a lower price and a lower...

Companies in the S&P 500 produce quarterly financial statements that are closely studied by investors who forecast the stock market performance of those companies. This paper describes a Neural Logic Network (NLN) for predicting stock market returns based on financial ratios from financial...

Companies in the S&P 500 produce quarterly financial statements that are closely studied by investors who forecast the stock market performance of those companies. This paper describes a Neural Logic Network (NLN) for predicting stock market returns based on financial ratios from financial...

In addition to retailing new vehicles, automotive manufacturers in the United States sell millions of vehicles through leasing and to fleet customers every year. The majority of these vehicles are returned to the automotive manufacturers at the end of the contracted term and must be...