In recent decades, great changes have taken place in residents’ lifestyle and consumption structure. Urban household consumption plays an increasingly significant role in promoting energy use and related carbon emissions. Communities are regarded as the basic part of city, and also units and...

A life-cycle savings model was tested to analyze consumption patterns of elderly U.S. households, using the 1990 and 1991 BLS Interview Survey of Consumer Expenditures. The model implies substantial, planned decreases in consumption after retirement, regardless of income patterns. The empirical...

This paper develops a structural multi-location consumer demand model to analyze spatially differentiated retail networks. A novel feature is that we allow consumers to care about outlets that are close to either home or workplace locations. This is in contrast to the previous literature, which...

Technology is often defined as a valuable firm resource particularly relative to marketing functions in the organization ( Barua, Kriebel, & Mukhopadhyay, 1995 ; Bharadwaj, 2000 ; Christensen, Johnson, & Rigby, 2002 ). When resources are customized to match a marketing strategy, they become firm...

Most arbitration research has been conducted in United States, despite the growth of arbitration internationally. In this study, we plan to examine one area where cross-cultural differences between Chinese and Americans have been found - attribution - and explore what effects this might have on...

This study examines the relationship between consumption and happiness, using panel data from China Family Panel Studies (CFPS). We find that total consumption expenditure has a significant and positive effect on happiness, but we find no evidence of a non-linear relationship between consumption...