Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to use samples from Chinese-listed companies to investigate the effects of interest rate deregulation and earnings transparency on company’s capital structure in China over the period of 2003–2015. In particular, the authors study the link between...

Many studies have confirmed that the separation of parents and children has a negative impact on children's growth. Although compulsory-education barriers for migrants' children have gradually disappeared in China, many families who migrate to cities have to leave their school-age children in...

We consider continuous-review, single-product, production-inventory systems with a constant replenishment rate, Lévy demand, and general inventory holding cost and lost-sales penalty. The Lévy demand encompasses various demand dynamics used in the inventory literature. We obtain the optimal...

Advertising is a major revenue source for e-commerce platforms and an important online marketing tool for e-commerce sellers. In this paper, we explore dynamic ad allocation with limited slots upon each customer arrival for e-commerce platforms when customers follow a choice model when clicking...