The erosion of high-end fashion brands by fast fashion copycats (e.g., Zara, H&M) has provoked ongoing controversies and unceasing legal attempts to copyright fashion designs. Despite this tension around the enforcement of copyrights and the purported negative impact of copycats, the effect of...

The expansion of marketing data is encouraging the growing use of deep learning in marketing. I summarize the intuition behind deep learning and explain the mechanisms of six popular algorithms: three discriminative (CNN, RNN, and Transformer), two generative (VAE and GAN), and one RL (DQN). I...

To mitigate global climate change and achieve the targets of the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), the Chinese government implemented a carbon emission trading scheme (ETS) pilot policy in batches. However, there has been no unified consensus at present on whether the ETS pilot policy...