The supermarket revolution has arrived in China; however, it does not play a role as active as expected. The prices of vegetables fluctuate drastically, which making farmers disinterested in their production, while customers find them too expensive to consume. In this paper, we try to explain...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate how nonprofit service providers can better engage their customers through online communication. It identifies two communication styles and three communication functions, and examines their impact on customer commenting, customer liking and...

The purpose of this paper is to compare the performance of three portfolio insurance strategies which have different theoretical foundations. Although theoretically all of the strategies can protect the portfolio value without losing the chance of enjoying the gains from up movements of the...

Although the reconstructed local volatility function can give an accurate approximation to the market volatility which leads to more efficient hedging, using the implied volatility calculated from a carefully chosen model is more ready to be accepted for the sake of easy implementation. We...