This paper proposes a new nonlinear interval programming method that can be used to handle uncertain optimization problems when there are dependencies among the interval variables. The uncertain domain is modeled using a multidimensional parallelepiped interval model. The model depicts...

We investigate the thermoelectric properties of a laterally coupled double-quantum-dot structure. For this structure, a one-dimensional quantum dot (QD) chain between two leads forms a main channel for electron transmission, and each QD in the chain laterally couples to an additional QD. It is...

Research opinion on informatization is divided between two opposite poles—that it promotes or inhibits the spillover of regional economies. These conflicting viewpoints are called “the paradoxical geographies of the digital economy”. Information-based investment and diffusion of...

Purpose – Based on the resource-based view, creating and maintaining a long-term competitive advantage requires significant attention to developing and nurturing dynamic capabilities in emerging markets. With increasing research attention given to the dynamic capabilities view, the need to...

Purpose – Based on the resource-based view, creating and maintaining a long-term competitive advantage requires significant attention to developing and nurturing dynamic capabilities in emerging markets. With increasing research attention given to the dynamic capabilities view, the need to...

We investigate the relationship between risk taking of life-health (LH) insurers and health (LH) insurers and stability of their institutional ownership within a simultaneous equation system model. Several results stability of their institutional ownership within a simultaneous equation system...

This research analyzes the performance of the Risk Based Capital (RBC) ratio and other variables in predicting insolvencies in the property-liability insurance industry during the period 1994 to 2008. This research contributes to the literature by analyzing a longer period of time than previous...

This study investigates how U.S. property-liability insurers changed their behavior response to the risk-based capital (RBC) requirements implemented in 1994. We posit that We posit that insurers may have acted to manage their operations and/or exploit anomalies in the RBC may have acted to...