Nowadays, social commerce has rapidly expanded to diverse industries. One of the items that has expanded rapidly seems a restaurant type of coupons at a social commerce site, which mainly composes of social commerce items. However, research has been rare conducted concerning restaurant products in a social commerce environment. In this respect, the present study suggests a conceptual research m...

The stock market, which has been investigated by various researchers, is a rather complicated environment. Most research only concerned the technical indexes (quantitative factors), instead of qualitative factors, e.g., political e ect. However, the latter plays a critical role in the stock market environment. Thus, this study develops a genetic algorithm based fuzzy neural network (GFNN) to fo...

AIM To clarify the extent of use of foreign (including duty free, foreign normal retail and smuggled) tobacco, and to estimate missed government tax revenue in a geographically isolated country. METHODS Discarded cigarette packs were collected on the streets of four cities and six New Zealand towns/rural locations between November 2008 and January 2009. RESULTS Out of a total of 1310 packs ...

In this paper we examine the determinants of economic value and investment behavior of the multi-asset firm when the firm internally produces intangible assets in the process of making fully productive the externally purchased ones and it has market power. The theoretical models are estimated with data from Spanish banks on material (branches, financial), immaterial (advertising and IT) and int...

In this paper standard macroeconomic models are combined with the Hayek-Garrison model of the business cycle in order to demonstrate in which way modern central banks are prone to initiate boom-bust-cycles through monetary policy. It is shown under which conditions such a policy will occur and why central bank authorities tend to be misled by an apparently stable price-level. Without central ba...

The purpose of this study is to develop and assess an objective research model to weigh the factors that affect intention of cross-buying insurance in banks. The Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution (TOPSIS) was conduct firstly for the shortlist selection of factors of cross-buying intention. Then, the factors’ weights of cross-buying intention is also used as the eval...

In this paper we have discussed about various applications based on ARIoT. Ultimately, an augmented reality based IoT system in the era of E-commerce .When making purchasing decisions at a retail location we will pick up the material and examine it closely, looking at the pictures. Through “augmented reality” customers can take their twodimension experience with products to three-dimension. Del...