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Micro finance is the process of formation of groups to support the poverty incapacitated people by extending money without any collateral security. Micro finance includes savings accounts, insurance products and credit provided to low income unbanked people to increase their economic status in the society. Micro-insurance is a shelter against the hazards of low-income people in exchange of a premium...
(1)First, repeated ultimate game was carried out using a computer simulation. As a result, we confirmed that we never behave rationally as standard economics assumes. (2)Second, on the basis of prospect theory, the risk aversion and seeking tendencies were analyzed in gambling situations. It tended that the participant behaved risk-aversively in a gain condition, and showed a risk-seeking behavior...
The relationship between tourism and wellbeing is becoming one of the focus issues in current tourism study. It is significant in theoretical and practical fields. Through analyzing the existing researches, the paper found out existing studies focus on the different impacts of tourism activities on happiness, but there are many inconsistent conclusions in existing studies. Some studies focused on...
This paper builds a simple model to analyze advertisement on a digital map. In our model consumers search for a specific firm but might be lured to nearby firms. A map owner charges a lump sum fee and controls entry. We show that the map owner has incentive to manipulate the quality of firms on the map according to the level of consumers' switching propensity and advertisement aversion. Strong switching...
The article, based on the new accounting standards, makes empirical study on the listed companies' choice between, pretax earnings management activities that have current income tax consequences (book-tax ‘conforming earnings management’) and earnings management activities that do not have current income tax consequences (book-tax ‘nonconforming earnings management’). Our study also investigates firm-specific...
Studies in social science and social computing have revealed that group dynamics plays an important role in group performance. Face-to-face interaction among group members has been regarded as one of the major determinants of performance in various business fields. However, the relationship between inter-child interaction in the school environment and their scholastic performance is unknown. An experiment...
In higher educational institutions the student learning process is its central function and one of the main activities. Thus several universities in many countries have a series of fixed exams that are required to graduate from their high schools and colleges. Therefore, the definition of educational/learning process expectations and emphasis that students must achieve after graduation are considered...
For the sake of the sustainability of supply chain a decision framework is designed in this essay. The meaning of sustainability is explored in economical, environmental and social angles as well as relevant decision stakeholders. Based on this analysis an interactive decision mechanism is verified, and then a decision path and methodology Based on analysis network process theory is designed to improve...
This paper uses the data of 16 China's listed commercial banks between 2007 and 2010 as the samples to go through the substantial evidence test of the relationship between commercial bank's earnings management and cash dividends policy, on the basis of using the abnormal loan loss provision measurement and avoiding surplus loss measurement to measure commercial banks' earnings management. The study...
Using panel data concerning standards stock and trade volume of China during 1990–2010, the paper empirically investigates impact of standards on China's foreign trade development in 33 ICS classified sectors. Results show that increasing stock for national standards and international standards positively promote China's foreign trade while international standards have a bigger effect. Product standards,...
Based on the method of experimental economics, this paper tests the effect of budget constraint strength on investor risk preference by 4 static experiments and 4 dynamic experiments. The results indicated that the soft budget constraint improved the degree of investors' risk preference. With the increase of budget constraint intensity, the ratio of risk avoidance is reduced. On the other hand, duration...
The focus of this paper is on the role of human capital in explaining labor productivity variation among 13 cities in Jiangsu Province within a regression framework. Human capital is measured in terms of the number of scientific and technical personnel by all sectors. This paper mainly uses the spatial Durbin model which describes the spatial dependence and spatial regression relationship. The paper...
Work is one of the most important and positive values for people in many societies and cultures. However, the passion for work can often become obsessive: in this case work activities take up a disproportionate space in the person's identity and cause conflicts with other life domains. This over-commitment of energies and time to work has been used in literature to describe the notion of workaholism...
This is the first HICSS minitrack focusing on different aspects of open data services, including issues related to the publication of the open data sets followed by new service development and their implications. Of special interest are novel applications of available open data in various domains, such as, preventive healthcare and traffic.
Commercial banks generally have a lot in common with other enterprises. However, there are also many unique differences in their products which are completely different from other enterprises. The impact on economic society also far exceeds that of other enterprises. If they are evaluated in accordance with accounting standards, it is obviously impossible to meet the needs of fulfilling a comprehensive,...
The evaluation of public service performance plays a significant part in government's performance management system. It is the mechanism of satisfying the public demands and constructing the service-oriented society. However, at present there are still some of the traditional, backward management philosophy and value orientation existing, which are restricting the implementation of public service...
E-business platform is of typical characteristics of networked market, in which the positive feedback mechanism leads to platform success provided that the number of platform users surpasses its critical mass. Otherwise, the platform would diminish and disappear in the market under the effect of the negative feedback mechanism. This paper, based on the complex network method, developed a dynamical...
With the acceleration of rural-urban land conversion and the development of our society. It is important to evaluate the external benefits loss in rural-urban land conversion. In this paper, the author's use the contingent valuation method (CVM) to evaluate the external benefits loss of rural-urban land conversion in Hongshan District, Wuhan. Several conclusions can be drawn from the study. Firstly,...
Random walk is a powerful tool for searching a network, especially for a very large network such as the Internet. The cover time is an important measure of a random walk on a finite graph, and has been studied well. For the purpose of searching a network, it is quite natural to think that multiple crawlers might cover a network faster than a single crawler. Alon et al. (2011) showed that a multiple...
There are described types of security threats to enterprise activity in the field of information technologies along with two ways of comparing possible costs for establishing a security system. Four main stages of auditing an enterprise information security using methods of expert examination with the XML orientation have been considered.
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