bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
An Evolutionary Game to Model Offshoring and Reshoring of Production Between Developed and Developing Countries
Authors: Bacchiocchi Andrea , Bischi Gian Italo
Published: May 2022

A dynamic model is proposed to describe the time evolution of production location choices of a multinational enterprise that can decide between two possible manufacturing locations: a stylized developed economy and a developing economy. The model is based on an evolutionary approach according to a replicator dynamics driven by expected profits. The production in each country is determined by the availability of labor inputs and their relative productivity, on wages of skilled and unskilled workers, as well as on cost externalities due to knowledge spillovers and public goods availability. The model includes the effects of relative demand and supply on earnings distribution with two different types of workers (high and low skilled) and the substitution between the two categories is captured by a CES aggregate production function. Behavioral parameters are also considered, such as the cognitive bias that overestimates the convenience of offshoring in term of labor cost and the “made in” effect that brings consumers to pay higher prices for products manufactured in a developed country.
Understanding Money Management Behavior Through the Theory of Planned Behavior
Authors: Onofrei Nicoleta , Cociorva Alexandru , Pasa Adina Teodora
Published: May 2022

This paper presents the results of a survey carried out by the authors in two different countries that share a common language and culture, Romania and Republic of Moldova. The aim of the study is to analyze three dimensions of the Money Management Behavior (saving, overspending and financial awareness) and to integrate them into a model based on the Theory of Planned Behavior. The structural equation modelling analysis reveals that saving is influenced negatively by Success and Centrality (two dimensions of the materialism scale), External locus of control and Pain of paying. Overspending is influenced negatively by Centrality, Happiness and Pain of paying, and positively by Social norms and Internal locus of control. Success, Social norms and Internal locus of control influence positively the financial awareness of individuals, whereas Pain of paying influences it negatively. The financial and socio-psychological behavioral differences in these two countries are compared and discussed.
Discovering Knowledge-Point Importance From the Learning-Evaluation Data
Authors: Guo Hongfei , Yu Xiaomei , Wang Xinhua , Guo Lei , Xu Liancheng , Lu Ran
Published: May 2022

As students in online courses usually show differences in their cognitive levels and lack communication with teachers, it is difficult for teachers to grasp student perceptions of the importance of knowledge-points and to develop personalized teaching. Though recent studies have paid attention to this topic, existing methods fail to calculate the importance of every knowledge-point for each student. Moreover, some studies are based on expert analysis, are not data-driven, and hence are inapplicable to large-scale online scenarios. To address these issues, this article proposes a personal topic rank (PTR) as a solution, which links students and concepts to generate a personalized knowledge concept map. Then, the authors present a novel PTR method to calculate the importance of knowledge-points, wherein student mastery of knowledge-points, student understanding, and the knowledge-point itself are considered simultaneously. This article conducts extensive experiments on a real-world dataset to demonstrate that the method can achieve better results than baselines.