综合经济学
In the US airline industry, independent regional airlines fly passengers on behalf of several national airlines across different markets, giving rise to $\textit{common subcontracting}$. On the one hand, we find that subcontracting is…
Using a systematic review and meta-analysis, this study investigates the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on job burnout among nurses. We review healthcare articles following the PRISMA 2020 guidelines and identify the main aspects and…
When the prices of cereal grains rise, social unrest and conflict become likely. In rural areas, the predation motives of perpetrators can explain the positive relationship between prices and conflict. Predation happens at places and in…
In Japanese primary and secondary schools, an alphabetical name list is used in various situations. Generally, students are called on by the teacher during class and in the cer-emony if their family name is early on the list. Therefore,…
Purpose: The aim of this study was to explore the feasibility of natural capital accounting for the purpose of strengthening sustainability claims by reporting entities. The study linked riparian land improvement to ecosystem services and…
Unemployment insurance provides temporary cash benefits to eligible unemployed workers. Benefits are sometimes extended by discretion during economic slumps. In a model that features temporary benefits and sequential job opportunities, a…
This article presents an analysis of China's economic evolution amidst demographic changes from 1990 to 2050, offering valuable insights for academia and policymakers. It uniquely intertwines various economic theories with empirical data,…
The least-cost diet problem introduces students to optimization and linear programming, using the health consequences of food choice. We provide a graphical example, Excel workbook and Word template using actual data on item prices, food…
This paper utilizes wealth shocks from winning lottery prizes to examine the causal effect of financial resources on fertility. We employ extensive panels of administrative data encompassing over 0.4 million lottery winners in Taiwan and…
Carbon abatement decisions are usually based on the implausible assumption of constant social preference. This paper focuses on a specific case of market and non-market goods, and investigates the optimal climate policy when social…
This paper investigates the relationship between scientists' cognitive profile and their ability to generate innovative ideas and gain scientific recognition. We propose a novel author-level metric based on the semantic representation of…
Borda Count Method is an important theory in the field of voting theory. The basic idea and implementation methodology behind the approach is simple and straight forward. Borda Count Method has been used in sports award evaluations and many…
The biotechnology industry poses challenges and possibilities for startups and small businesses. It is characterized by high charges and complex policies, making it difficult for such agencies to set up themselves. However, it additionally…
This paper proposes to estimate the returns-to-scale of production sets by considering the individual return of each observed firm through the notion of $\Lambda$-returns to scale assumption. Along this line, the global technology is then…
Metastability is a phenomenon observed in stochastic systems which stay in a false-equilibrium within a region of its state space until the occurrence of a sequence of rare events that leads to an abrupt transition to a different region.…
Purpose: The objective of this work is to analyze the impact of implementing work-family reconciliation measures on workers' perception and how this can influence their behavior, especially in their organizational performance.…
Media around the world is disseminated at the national level as well as at the local level. While the capacity of media to shape preferences and behavior has been widely recognized, less is known about the differential impacts of local…
The rise of new modes of interaction with AI skyrocketed the popularity, applicability, and amount of use cases. Despite this evolution, conceptual integration is falling behind. Studies suggest that there is hardly a systematization in…
A major gap exists between the conceptual suggestion of how much a nation should invest in science, innovation, and technology, and the practical implementation of what is done. We identify 4 critical challenges that must be address in…
Nudging is a burgeoning topic in science and in policy, but evidence on the effectiveness of nudges among differentially-incentivized groups is lacking. This paper exploits regional variations in the roll-out of the Covid-19 vaccine in…