Prior studies on developed markets have documented that conditional conservatism is positively associated with investment efficiency. In this study, we investigate whether this association can be shaped by the unique institutional environment—state ownership of firms and banks—in China....

This work studies a Robust Multi-product Newsvendor Model with Substitution (R-MNMS), where the demand and the substitution rates are stochastic and are subject to cardinality-constrained uncertainty sets. The goal of this work is to determine the optimal order quantities of multiple products to...

Although many studies have documented that in-store displays and feature advertising can significantly increase brand choice probabilities, the mechanism through which they affect the choice decision process is not well understood. The marketing literature has suggested twoprominent decision...

Since China's implementation of the One-Child Policy in the late 1970s, more than 150 million only children have been born and are often stigmatized with negative stereotypes that are not applied to children with siblings. In this study, we investigate the impact of trustor and trustee...

We study gender discrimination in hiring markets by sending 19,130 fictitious matched resumes in response to professional employment advertisements posted on major Internet employment boards in China for positions such as engineers, accountants, secretaries, and marketing professionals in...