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作者：Zhang, Dongsong; Shan, Guohou; Lee, Minwoo; Zhou, Lina; Fu, Zhe
作者单位：University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Charlotte; University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Charlotte; Northeastern University; University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Charlotte; University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Charlotte
摘要：The proliferation of fake news, more recently multimodal fake news, poses a significant threat to individuals, organizations, and society. While online social media platforms have employed automated methods to combat fake news, they face two notable challenges: the scarcity of labeled data and the diversity of news domains. To enhance the effectiveness and efficiency of online platforms in mitigating the spread of fake news, this study proposes MT-GPD (multimodal deep transfer learning with ga...
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作者：Avinadav, Tal; Chernonog, Tatyana; Khmelnitsky, Eugene
作者单位：Bar Ilan University; Tel Aviv University
摘要：We study the design of a novel, flexible revenue-sharing contract between a platform and an app developer (or other digital content provider) when the parties hold heterogeneous beliefs with regard to the future income. The current contracts adopted by platforms in reality invoke a policy of two or three commission levels based on historical revenue data. We design a contract in which the commission is a continuous function of the revenue generated by the app or other digital content within th...
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作者：Karimi, Amir; Roy, Dwaipayan
作者单位：University of Texas System; University of Texas at San Antonio
摘要：Access to contraceptives empowers women to not only exercise their reproductive rights and avert unintended pregnancies, but also to prevent a spectrum of adverse societal and health outcomes (e.g., unfulfilled career aspirations, unsafe abortions, maternal deaths.) However, in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), where resources are limited and women are under-represented as decision-makers in national governments, reproductive health has not traditionally been prioritized. Motivated by ...
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作者：Anderson, David R.; Aydinliyim, Tolga; Bjarnadottir, Margret V.; Cil, Eren B.; Anderson, Michaela R.
作者单位：Villanova University; City University of New York (CUNY) System; Baruch College (CUNY); University System of Maryland; University of Maryland College Park; University of Oregon; Columbia University; City University of New York (CUNY) System; Baruch College (CUNY)
摘要：In the United States, even though national guidelines for allocating scarce healthcare resources are lacking, 26 states have specific ventilator allocation guidelines to be invoked in case of a shortage. While several states developed their guidelines in response to the recent COVID-19 pandemic, New York State developed these guidelines in 2015 as pandemic influenza is a foreseeable threat, one that we cannot ignore. The primary objective of this study is to assess the existing procedures and ...
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作者：Jiang, Houyuan; Pang, Zhan; Savin, Sergei
作者单位：University of Cambridge; Purdue University System; Purdue University; University of Pennsylvania
摘要：We study the effects of hospital consolidations on access to care in a competitive healthcare market in the presence of performance incentives. We consider a transition from a pre-merger market configuration where a payer delegates services to a market with two competing hospitals to a horizontally consolidated configuration under which the same entity manages two hospitals. We focus on two research questions: How should the payer set access-based performance incentives in response to a horizo...
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作者：Yao, Shiqing; Zhu, Kaijie; Yang, Ruina
作者单位：Monash University; Chinese University of Hong Kong; Xi'an Jiaotong University; Xi'an Jiaotong University
摘要：Counterfeits cause tremendous damages to brand companies by eroding their market shares and reducing customers' buying motives. In response to such damages, many companies choose to develop and deploy anti-counterfeiting technologies, thus preventing counterfeiters from imitating their products. The companies can also rely on law enforcement exerted by local regulatory authorities to outlaw counterfeits. In this article, we study how brand companies may leverage the two approaches effectively....
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作者：Arunachalam, S.; Manchiraju, Hariom; Suhag, Rahul; Kopalle, Praveen K.
作者单位：Texas Tech University System; Texas Tech University; Indian School of Business (ISB); Texas A&M University System; Texas A&M University College Station; Mays Business School; Dartmouth College
摘要：This research assesses the impact of Indian government-mandated firms' corporate social responsibility (CSR) related investments on gross margins. Using a multimethod approach, we show (a) a positive relationship between CSR investments and gross margin and (b) the moderating role of advertising investment. The contribution of our research is three-fold. First, our results suggest that mandating firms to spend on CSR can be a win-win situation for firms and governments, as opposed to the view ...
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作者：Xie, Karen; Liu, Jianwei
作者单位：University of Connecticut; Dalian University of Technology
摘要：Customer experiences largely define the success of service operations. As home sharing continues to change how consumers travel and penetrate local markets, we study the impact of home sharing on customer experiences at local travel attractions. Our empirical strategy hinges on the staggered rollout of home sharing across attractions at times. We first found that home sharing positively affects customer experiences at attractions. Using large-scale property-level customer reviews, we then trac...
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作者：Cardonha, Carlos H.; Cire, Andre A.; Real, Lucas C. Villa
作者单位：University of Connecticut; University of Toronto; University Toronto Scarborough; University of Toronto
摘要：In this article, we investigate the problem of sequencing data requests for linear devices, such as magnetic tapes, to minimize response time in cold-storage solutions for archival data. Tapes are the technology of choice for long-term storage due to their reliability, low costs, security, and significant energy savings. However, physical limitations on tape pose challenges to policy implementation, which must be scalable on low-power hardware. We provide a theoretical and numerical analysis o...
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作者：Yin, Qianbo; Lai, Guoming; Zhou, Sean X.
作者单位：Shanghai University of Finance & Economics; University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin; Chinese University of Hong Kong
摘要：We examine the impacts of strategic consumers and direct channel on the manufacturer's choice between static and dynamic contracts. We consider two scenarios: One in which the manufacturer sells through a single retailer, and the other in which it sells through two different retailers sequentially. In each scenario, the retailer(s) sets the retail prices, which the manufacturer's direct channel matches, while consumers may time their purchases. We derive the subgame perfect Nash equilibrium. W...
