Uber is a popular ride-sharing application that matches people who need a ride (or riders) with drivers who are willing to provide it using their personal vehicles. Despite its growing popularity, there exist few studies that examine large-scale Uber data, or in general the factors affecting user participation in the sharing economy. We address this gap through a study of the Uber market that a...

Trust has been found as the key determinant of consumer decisions in sharing economy platforms, and service-provider’s attributesare crucial fortrust building but rarelystudied. In this paper, we investigate the effect of host’s attributes on consumer’s purchasing behaviors in xiaozhu.com, a leading short rental platform in China. Specifically, we argue that host’s attributescan influencetrustw...

Recycling economy is a kind of economy that melts clean production and the comprehensive utilization of waste. Its nature is a kind of ecological economy. Ecological economy is a kind of economy of sustainable development. It emphasizes the co-adaptation and mutual promoting and coordination of recycling economy and ecological economy. By analyzing the difference and relation of recycling econo...

Insect resistance to toxins exerts not only a great impact on our economy, but also on the ecology of many species. Resistance to one toxin is often associated with cross-resistance to other, sometimes unrelated, chemicals. In this study, we investigated mushroom toxin resistance in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster (Meigen). This fruit fly species does not feed on mushrooms in nature and m...

Over the past four decades, information technology (IT) has had a profound e!ect on the US economy, resulting in a shift from a manufacturing to an information economy. This e!ect, however, has also produced what may be labeled the paradox of IT productivity. While the percentage of a "rm's budget spent on IT continues to increase, there is increasing evidence that "rms fail to obtain the bene"...

In a number of transition economies the banking systems are at different stages of the transformation process from mostly planned to market economy structures. But the past turbulent year led to further distinctions in development within these countries. While FSU (the former Soviet Union) countries, in particular Russia, were deeply shattered by the SouthEast Asian financial crisis and have su...