Gil–Bazo and Ruiz–Verdú (2009) show that fund families strategically exploit the low performance sensitivity of investors, i.e., investors’ low elasticity of demand with respect to performance, to increase fund fees. Given that environmentally, socially and governance (ESG) focused...

This paper reports on the views of business students in Fukuoka, Japan. A survey was conducted asking them to give their opinion on 18 arguments that have been given in the past to justify tax evasion. The statements were ranked in order to determine the relative strength of each of the...

The growing popularity of social media such as Twitter and Facebook has made these websites an important source of information. The large amount of data available on these platforms presents new opportunities for mining information about the real world. Because of its widespread usage, a lot of...

This article analyses optimal decisions under regulation by tradable agricultural production/marketing quotas when production is stochastic. For risk-neutral and risk-averse producers the fraction of planned production that is covered by quota is separable from input decisions when yield...

This study begins with an introduction to the issue of ethics and tax evasion and a review of dozens of studies that have been conducted on ethics from a gender perspective, then proceeds to present the results of a study of 23 Asian and 11 European countries on the ethics of tax evasion. The...

The biogeographical centers of origin of important food crops - called Vavilov centers - are considered to be crucial sources of genetic diversity for present and future crop-breeding programs and thus for human food safety worldwide. Global environmental change and more intensified modes of...

This book focuses on how to promote cross-border economic cooperation in the context of China national strategy including BRI. This book summarizes the existing regional economic development theories and sorts out the relevant theories of cross-border economic cooperation. Then, it analyzes the...