Existing research on organizational structures of government has generally overlooked its impact on environmental protection regimes. Using a flat hierarchy reform in China, we investigate the causal relationship between the flattening of environmental protection agencies and border water...

In this paper, we generalize the classic therapeutic decision-making model, developed by Pauker and Kassirer, from the expected utility(EU) to the rank-dependent utility (RDU) framework. In contrast with EU, the RDU can incorporate a physician's optimistic and pessimistic biases into...

The newsvendor model is a building block for inventory management under stochastic situation. This paper examines the effects of an additive and a multiplicative background risk separately on the optimal order quantity of a risk-averse newsvendor with Mean-Variance utility. We derive several...

The financial instability stemming from large volumes of simultaneous selling in the corporate bond market has been a topic of concern in recent years. Investors in this market care primarily about the downside risk of a firm given their concave payoff function, and this is precisely the...