Recently, Ohta et al. [Quality and Reliability Engineering International 17: 439-446, 2001] have studied the economic design of CCC(Cumulative Count of Conforming)-r charts for high-yield processes assuming a fixed hazard rate. Generally, however, the hazard rate is varying over time. With the...

When the spot price and production risk are jointly normally distributed, the mean-variance approach has little theoretical justification. The authors use Taylor approximations instead and show the three results. One, farmers hedge less than expected production when the futures price is less...

AbstractThe following sections are included:INTRODUCTIONBROADER CONCEPTS OF SECURITYJapan's concept of comprehensive securityRedefining the concept of security: “environmental security”THE ARCTIC AND JAPANThe Arctic's geopolitics: resources, peoples and the environmentThe main findings of...

As the network externality in an industrial organization has been widely discussed in recent years, many researchers in the field have noted a particular type of market, the so-called two-sided market. In a two-sided market, two or more groups of agents such as buyers and sellers interact while...

The study in this paper is on the causal relationship between export activities of firms and their characteristics in a transition country that is pursuing export-led growth strategies and experiencing a fast track of trade liberalization. For this purpose, we examine the superiority of...