Purpose: The purpose of this study is to examine the role of customer experience moderating the relationship between reputation (online consumer reviews) and price premium. Design/methodology/approach: This paper collected half-year period transaction of Nokia 5230XM and Kingston SD card from...

Purpose: Mobile health service (MHS) can provide users with convenient health services and information to reduce their medical costs from aging or other health issues. Previous studies confirm the underdevelopment of the Chinese MHS. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the factors that...

This study constructs a multidimensional index to measure the digital application level of rural households based on micro-survey data and empirically investigates the economic returns and mechanism of its effects. The results reveal that for every 1% increase in the digital application level of...

Assessing the medical quality of hospitals based on control charts has received lots of attention. However, existing control charts produce delay and false alarms when applying to semi-competing risk data, which widely exist in biomedical and clinical fields. Some studies have suggested that...

Under the background of trade liberalization and new urbanization, it is of great significance to study how city opening leads to wage premium and improve income distribution. This paper examines the relationship between trade liberalization, city size and urban wage premium using micro data...

We build an empirical model under the stochastic frontier framework to assess production efficiencies of container operators from the world's major container ports in the years between 1997 and 2004. The empirical model measures efficiencies, efficiency changes, and time-persistence of...