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The Impact of Relationship Marketing Strategies on Customer Loyalty in the High-End Hair Salon Industry in Auckland
by Jia Wei- Sim  and  Indrapriya Kularatne
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The business world is a competitive place, and enterprises must cultivate sustainable relationships with their clients to gain customer loyalty. Concepts of relationship marketing (RM) are becoming vital in the service industry. Different RM strategies are used to attract customers, but some of these strategies do not achieve customer loyalty as easily as predicted due to custo [...] Read more

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Trinity for Innovation: Industry-University-Research Amends Factor Misallocation Based on the Dual Perspective of Capital and Labor Force
by Liwen Cheng , Zhouyi Gu , Changsong Wang  and  Hong Jie
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Based on provincial panel data in China, this study is the first to investigate whether industry-university-research collaborative innovation (IURCI) can help to improve factor misallocation. It is found that IURCI can significantly improve capital misallocation and labor misallocation, and the effect has regional differences, which shows that the improvement effect is obvious [...] Read more

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Spatiotemporal pattern evolution and influencing factors of population spatial distribution in Changsha-Zhuzhou-Xiangtan urban agglomeration, China
by Weiping Wu , Wenhua Xie  and  Yuwei Sun
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Population, as a fundamental element in urban development, often reflects a city's economic development pattern through its spatial distribution and dynamic changes. Studying population spatial distribution is pivotal for bolstering the economic activity capacity in urban agglomerations and guiding regional economic health. Using the Changsha-Zhuzhou-Xiangtan urban agglomeratio [...] Read more

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Regional Economic Development in the AI Era: Methods, Opportunities, and Challenges
by Robertas Damaševičius
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The dawn of the Artificial Intelligence (AI) era presents a plethora of new possibilities for analyzing regional economic development. The present article provides an in-depth exploration of the methods employed in this field, highlighting the immense opportunities that AI offers while also addressing potential challenges. The role of AI is crucial in complex data handling, ena [...] Read more

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Portfolio Allocation with Medical Expenditure Risk-A Life Cycle Model and Machine Learning Analysis
by You Du  and  Weige Huang
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This paper explores how the medical expenditure risk affects the households’ portfolio choice across health status theoretically in a life cycle model and empirically using machine learning methods. Medical expenditure risk, as a background risk, has the potential to influence households’ financial decisions. A higher medical expenditure risk leads to a larger fluct [...] Read more

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Does Rocky Mountain Credit Union Competition still Affect Commercial Bank Interest Rates?
by Thomas M. Fullerton , Robert J. Tokle , Bryce Jones  and  Steven L. Fullerton
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Historically, increased credit union competition in Idaho and Montana has caused commercial banks to offer higher deposit rates to savers and lower loan rates to borrowers. Data are collected for the second quarter of 2018 to examine whether that pattern still holds true. Unlike prior studies, empirical results indicate that credit union competition no longer exerts statistical [...] Read more

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Access to Electricity and Primary Education Nexus in Central Africa
by Arsene Mouongue Kelly , Beatrice Laure Toukap Yimele , Nidel Lolita Wassou Tchieu  and  Pascal Ndyanabo Rutazihana
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Access to electricity, a fundamental element of contemporary life, is essential for economic success. Its impact extends to the fundamental foundations of industrial development and has the power to improve a wide range of industries, including healthcare, transportation, utilities, and education. This article aims to analyse the effect of electricity access on primary educatio [...] Read more

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The role of economic development in improvements of Cambodian housing conditions
by Florian Gerth  and  Karol S. Sikora
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In the past, investing in housing has served as an engine of growth for many economies as it is widely recognized that poor housing conditions can have significant negative impacts on human health, education, and economic opportunities. To assess the housing-related quality of life, indicators such as housing quality, housing environment, and cost burdens can be applied. Howeve [...] Read more

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Underlining issues of emerging economies: a case of East and Southeast Asian Countries
by Mohammad Rezaul Karim  and  Md. Mizanur Rahman
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Overall development of a country largely depends on the economic policy instruments particularly fiscal and monetary policy to streamline the development and continue the developmental progress. These two policies have significant effects on long-term growth. It is noticed that policy adoption and reforms in both fiscal and monetary policies undertaken by Southeast Asian nation [...] Read more

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Sustainable development with city, industry, economic and environment: The role of city-industry integration on green economic growth
by Xiaoli Hao , Yuhong Li  and  Ume Lail
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In order to avoid the real economy development lags behind and the deterioration of ecological problems in the process of traditional urbanization, China has been promoting city-industry deep integration, but the connection between city-industry integration and green economic growth, especially the spatial effect, has not been systematically explained. Based on the panel data f [...] Read more

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Research on The Intermediary Effect of Innovation Ability on The Internationalization and Competitiveness of Western Central-cities
by Ying Zhang  and  Qianxiao Zhang
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Based on the panel data of western central-cities from 2002 to 2021, this paper uses the intermediary effect model to analyze the relationship between urban internationalization, innovation ability and urban competitiveness. It is found that: (1) The internationalization of western central-cities has a positive and direct impact on the promotion of urban competitiveness, which [...] Read more

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The realization path and effect measurement of ecological value transformation to promote the common prosperity of urban and rural areas
by Zhe Tao , Simeng Liu  and  Jingyi Li
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On the basis of the background of the global green development wave, this paper studies the mechanism between ecological value transformation and urban-rural common prosperity as well as selects 24 data indicators in relation to ecological value transformation, i.e., green development level from 2008 to 2017, calculate the comprehensive score of China's green development level [...] Read more

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Does High-Speed Rail Really Have a Positive Effect on City Consumption? A PSM-DID Approach With China Case
by Xinshuo Hou , Dongyang Li  and  Jianghuan Peng
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This paper evaluates the treatment effect of high-speed rail (HSR) operation on city consumption using the dataset of Chinese cities from 2003 to 2019. Firstly, the applicability of observations is discussed; secondly, observations with no appropriate contrast samples are dropped for more precise empirical results. Then, propensity score matching (PSM) is implied to have the da [...] Read more

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The reasons that younger homeowners are less likely to become entrepreneurs: The role of capital constraints
by Mingzhi Hu  and  Xiaoshuang Li
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Considering that housing is the single biggest asset for most households, owning a home may create barriers to entrepreneurship for young people who generally accumulate relatively little wealth due to a short-term career and low income. Using longitudinal data from the China Family Panel Studies (CFPS) survey, our empirical work suggests that homeowners are associated with sig [...] Read more