This paper investigates the firms’ incentive of using corporate socially responsible (CSR) innovation as a device in the presence of spillover effect of such innovation. By modelling a two-period environment where a fraction of consumers is altruistic who have higher willingness to pay for the...

This paper investigates the firms’ incentive of using corporate socially responsible (CSR) innovation as a device in the presence of spillover effect of such innovation. By modelling a two-period environment where a fraction of consumers is altruistic who have higher willingness to pay for the...

Location-Based Services (LBS) bring unprecedented mobility andpersonalization value to nomadic individuals and hence carrygreat commercial potential. However, the commercial potential ofLBS is obscured by the user’s concerns for privacy whereby theLBS provider can misuse the confidential...

The formation of reference points has drawn increasing interest ever since the introduction of prospect theory. Given that most studies focus on tradable goods such as stocks, for which the prices are observable, while few have focused on environmental goods. This paper attempts to fill this gap...

The hedonic wage equation is the relationship between wages and job and personal attributes (such as safety and working experiences) when the labor market is in equilibrium. The estimated equations have often been used to measure marginal values of risk reduction (safety) (or the value of a...

This dissertation is aiming to find out the impact of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act on insurance companies' survival. The events of interest are bankruptcy and acquisition, which are correlated and censor each other. A statistical survival analysis method is developed first and then applied to the...

The airline industry is an area where fierce competition exists. Maximizing revenue is an important target for the airlines. This is known as revenue management or yield management. A lot of research has been done in this area to help the airlines achieve their goals.Recently, some of the...

The current literature on privacy addresses the need for privacy, user's perceptions of privacy, privacy-enhancing solutions and other related aspects. What lacks is an attempt to present the essence of privacy in a coherent, definable manner within the context of all the related factors that...

Sensor networks are considered useful for a broad spectrum of emerging civil and military applications.However, sensor networks are also confronted with many securitythreats such as node compromise, routing disruption, and false datainjection, because they normally operate in unattended, harsh...