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In this paper, a study of the problem of shopping center layout design is presented. Assignment of shops to locations in a shopping center should be performed in a way that ensures balance in the distribution of flow across all shopping center areas. This can lead to the success of the shopping center, and consequently raise its rent return. This study proposes a facility layout assignment model for...
This paper gives an empirical study on determinants of capital structure of Chinese-listed companies using firm-level panel data. The study employs a new database containing the accounting data from 89 non-financial companies listed on the Shanghai and Shenzhen Stock Exchange during the period time of 2003 to 2005. It employs six index variables as independent variables, and finds main affecting factors...
Economic globalization has intensified the transactions among companies' cross-regional affiliated parties. More and more enterprises manipulate profit to obtain the tax benefits through transfer pricing. At the same time. intangible assets are becoming the main driving factors for enterprises' value creation. It has become a trend that lots of companies are transferring profit or implementing other...
Maximizing product adoption in viral marketing is the task of choosing a small set of seed nodes in a social network so that by their approval to adopt the product, they influence others and lead to large number of adoptions. In this paper, a special case is investigated in which nodes, because of their potential profitability, are not of the same importance to the sales manager. We assign importance...
According to the characteristics of microfinance of Chinese commercial bank, a performance evaluation system of microfinance of commercial bank is developed. Fuzzy mathematics and AHP are used in the empirical analysis of performance of commercial bank microfinance to get a better evaluation results.
Offering “free” gift cards with expiry date is very popular among retailers. In this paper, we formulated and solved a model for jointly determining the optimal purchase amount threshold, gift card value and expiry date. The model shows that retailers' profit margin and consumers' valuation for additional purchase are the critical factors in determining the profitability of retailers adopting gift...
Debt restructuring of listed companies is easy to cause risk of moral hazard and adverse selection. We choose all non-financial of A-share stocks which actually restructured debt in 2007–2009 as our samples. Through empirical research on financial situation before and after the restructuring and the motivations, we find that debt restructuring will improve corporate governance performance in the short...
This paper applied the factor analysis method to dynamically evaluate the credit risk of listed companies in China. Sixteen measurable indicators which can reflect the public credits of listed companies are selected and 4 main indicators are extracted by applying the factor analysis method. On the basis of it, 16 sub-indicators are further given to explain the affecting level to the credit of listed...
The increasing scarcity of resource has raised sustainability awareness in recent years. In response, many manufacturers develop green co-products using materials that would be otherwise discarded to alleviate consumption of scarce resource. In this work, we apply game theoretic analysis to examine a monopolist manufacture's product design problem when consumers are heterogeneous in valuing quality...
Swarm Intelligence (SI) is a system composed of many individuals interacting locally with each other and/or with their environment, providing collective problem solving. Examples of natural systems are colonies of bees, ants and termites, schools of fish, flocks of birds. In this paper, we introduce a bee-inspired algorithm for information dissemination in VANETs. Honey bees communicate with each...
In the pre-reform era, Life Insurance Corporation of India (L.I.C.I) dominated the Indian Life Insurance market. But the situation drastically changed since the beginning of the year 2000. With he development of the IRDA Act in 1999, private players started entering into the life insurance market. At the end of the FY 2011–12, there were 24 life insurance companies (inclusive of 1 public sector player,...
In order to find out why some companies adopt an extreme capital structure of zero debt, we use the data of China's listed companies to analyze the features of those zero debt companies. Our empirical results show that some factors influence the choice of zero debt policy. Our analysis explains what kind of company may adopt zero debt, and also contribute to the research of low leverage.
Profitable intangible cultural heritage refers to intangible cultural heritage that can be used to produce goods and services, and hence could make economic profit for their bearers. They are intangible, profitable, adhesive, and of historical significance. The most suitable method to evaluate profitable intangible cultural heritages is the Gain Method, which means to forecast and discount the future...
This paper, on the basis of standardized data, uses the financial data of listed tourism companies and Euclidean distance method to build a fuzzy matrix. Then it figures out the fuzzy equivalent matrix by square method, and does fuzzy clustering under certain clustering level. By this means, we achieve the category of tourism companies. In conclusion, the financial condition and management performance...
By selecting customers' credit risk indicators of the domestic textile industry on the electronic trading market in China and using factor analysis method, clustering method, and ordered-logit model, it can be concluded that the comprehensive evaluation of customers' credit status is measured scientifically in B2B market. Therefore, customers' credit risk management is made effectively in accordance...
From a firm-year perspective, sorting all analysts issuing forecasts for a firm into quartiles, with analysts' forecasts samples exceeding 7700 and stock rating samples exceeding 21000, this paper tests relationship between analysts' earnings forecasts accuracy and recommendations investment value by computing the characteristics and daily returns of the long and short portfolio of each quartile....
Given the conflicting results from past research, this paper uses social network analysis (SNA) to empirically determine the relationship between interlocking directorates and corporate profitability. Specifically, it seeks to address two research questions: (1) what relationship exists between the number of director interlocks and companies' profitability? (2) what relationship exists between power...
Chinese large logistics enterprises have carried out the business of pledge by warehouse receipts for more than ten years while many problems emerged in the process of business implementation. A lot of risks such as customer credit risk, the risk of bad delivery and regulatory risk have emerged in the business. In particular, customer credit risk is very important. Therefore, it is necessary to study...
In order to analysis whether the administrative appointment can select eligible operators for state-owned enterprises(SOE), a two-stage dynamic game of incomplete information is used in this paper. By introducing an alternative parameter that can reflect the operating capacity, the game model can show what will the administrative appointment bring to this ability parameter. Equilibriums of this game...
The article has introduced appearance background of single well drilling cost information management system. It has analyzed the main module function and described this system's application of drilling company in Zhongyuan Oil Field. The system has kept the information of drilling production material consumption etc. in a clear and orderly condition. It can strengthen the ability of the cost of management...
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