The role of owner-provided services in fee-based recreation access is evaluated for the case of waterfowl hunting. An hedonic framework is used to analyze and estimate the implicit price of some waterfowl hunting lease ...

Supply chain management directly affects corporate performance. Today’s supply chain management is very different from what it was a decade ago; nowadays, developing and implementing a networked, flexible supply chain that ...

Customer retention is an important element of banking strategy in today's increasingly competitive environment. Bank management must identify and improve upon factors that can limit customer defection. These include employee ...

Share repurchases have become a popular payout method to distribute cash flows to shareholders not only in the U.S. but also other countries. This study examines the firms’ share price and operating performance surrounding ...

New Zealand and Australia are highly interdependent in many ways. However, New Zealand is more reliant on Australia than Australia is on New Zealand. Given high economic relation, business-cycle transmission is expected ...

Conventional econometric models, such as discriminant analysis and logistic regression have been used to predict consumer choice. However, in recent years, there has been a growing interest in applying artificial neural ...

Organically grown products have received increasing attention worldwide. This appears to be due to growing awareness of environmental problems and increased concerns about the health and safety of modern agricultural food ...

The relentless effort of the government to control rising house prices in urban China have differential impacts on the various segments of the population due to their differential demand for homeownership. Hence, it is ...

This research extends the study of Boscaljon and Ho and test the effect of market response to bank loan announcement in the Hong Kong banking market after the 1997 Asian crisis. The study also investigates whether bank is ...

This study applied the Fama-French three-factor model (1993) and CAPM to examine A-shares in Chinese equity market from 1996 to 2005. The authors find a positive relation between book-to-market ratio and stock excess ...