We present a new, global database on tourist destinations. The database differs from other databases in that it includes both domestic and international tourists; and it contains data, for the most important destinations, data at national level as well as at lower administrative levels. Missing...

This paper employs real option analysis to evaluate the investment project to adopt energy saving and carbon emission reduction technology. Sensitivity analysis and simulation outcomes highlight the respective roles of carbon price level and government support in the investment decision. That...

Price discrimination, which refers to the strategy of setting different prices for different customer groups, has been widely used in online retailing. Although it helps boost the collected revenue for online retailers, it might create serious concern in fairness, which even violates the...

We study an assortment optimization problem under a multi-purchase choice model in which customers choose a bundle of up to one product from each of two product categories. Different bundles have different utilities and the bundle price is the summation of the prices of products in it. For the...

The potential of FinTech algorithms to decrease gender bias in credit decisions is limited by the impartiality of the data used to train them. If the data is partial or biased, the algorithmic decision-making process may also be discriminatory, exacerbating existing inequalities. In this study,...

The potential of FinTech algorithms to decrease gender bias in credit decisions is limited by the impartiality of the data used to train them. If the data is partial or biased, the algorithmic decision-making process may also be discriminatory, exacerbating existing inequalities. In this study,...

We present a new, global data base on tourist destinations. The data base differs from other data bases in that it includes both domestic and international tourists; and it contains data, for the most important destinations, data at national level as well as at lower administrative levels....

Many industrial processes need steam at temperatures from 100 to 200 °C, normally produced by directly heating water via coal, natural gas or oil combustion. Nevertheless, large amounts of unused heat below 100 °C are wasted in other industrial processes. In principle, a high-temperature...