Profit Model Research Articles

Influence of dual-credit policy on the energy conservation and emission reduction technology R&D of Chinese auto industry

The dual-credit policy, as an important industrial policy in the automotive industry to replace fiscal subsidies, aims to achieve the dual objectives of energy conservation and emission reduction (ECER) and promote the development of new energy vehicles by establishing a dual credit system based on the average fuel consumption of conventional vehicles and credits for new energy vehicles. This paper employs a game model to investigate the differential impact of the dual-credit policy on ECER among automobile manufacturers with different industry structures. The study finds that the existing policy primarily favors manufacturers adopting the integration mode, followed by the multilateral mode and supply-monopoly mode respectively. Furthermore, R&D cost coefficient, unit price of credits, degree of competition and elasticity of cross-demand for fuel-saving functions are the four main factors that influence the profit model of the automobile industry. The findings of this study suggest that targeted policies need to be formulated for different industry structures during the adjustment of the policy in order to fully stimulate their enthusiasm for ECER. Additionally, the flexible combination of the four factors should be considered when formulating a specific dual-credit policy so as to achieve more energy saving and emission reduction effect in the automobile industry.

Analysis of Internet third-party payment based on Alipay mobile payment business

As e-commerce began to rise in the early 21st century, mobile payments began to appear in the public eye and flourished in the following decade. However, in recent years, the development of the mobile payment industry has slowed down, and the industry has reached a new turning point. Various mobile payment companies have begun to continuously look for new markets to develop new technologies and seek breakthroughs. As the leader in the mobile payment industry, Alipay is seeking new development opportunities while consolidating its position. How should Alipay adjust its goals and change its business strategy in the future? This article will start with the definition of the origin of third-party payment, analyze how third-party mobile payment evolved from barter exchange to the use of currency and finally formed the current mobile payment method; and then analyze the mobile payment industry. Profit model, how the mobile payment industry develops at home and abroad, and finally use the SWOT model to analyze Alipay's strengths and weaknesses, combined with the company's opportunity and threat analysis, to comprehensively analyze Alipay's current position. Finally, it was concluded that Alipay should shift its focus from target markets to B2B cross-border payment business and establish a risk prevention system in cross-border e-commerce business.

Green Building Consumption Perception and Its Impact on Fitness Service Purchasing Intentions: An Extended Institutional Analysis and Development Decision-Making Model Analysis

Green buildings play a pivotal role in advancing ecological civilization and promoting green, low-carbon development. Numerous studies have delved into the construction techniques, process attributes, economic benefits, risk management, and benefit assessments associated with green buildings. Concurrently, research on the profitability models, marketing strategies, and public purchasing intentions of commercial fitness clubs has also yielded extensive findings. Yet, there is a noticeable gap: limited research has investigated the nexus between green building development and consumers’ propensity to purchase fitness services from these commercial establishments. Building upon the foundation set by previous scholars and employing the Extended IAD Decision-Making Model, this study utilizes the PLS-SEM method to analyze collected questionnaire data. Through path analysis, we examine the relationships between variables. Our findings indicate that: (1) Positive perceptions of green building consumption bolster the purchasing intentions toward fitness services in commercial fitness clubs. (2) Perceived risk mediates the relationship between green building consumption perceptions and consumers’ fitness service purchasing intentions in commercial fitness clubs. (3) Environmental awareness enhances the correlation between green building consumption perceptions and the propensity to purchase services in these clubs. The goal of this research is to underscore the importance of green buildings both in environmental and economic contexts and to offer insights that can elevate the profitability of commercial fitness clubs.

The Effects of Product Features of Korean Professional Baseball NFTs on Customer Perceived Value, Satisfaction, and Purchase Intentions

PURPOSE This study aims to provide empirical foundational data for the development of a new profit model in Korean professional baseball. It does so by examining the influence of professional baseball NFT product attributes on customer perceptions of value, satisfaction, and purchase intention.METHODS Data were collected from consumers who have experience purchasing KBOLLECT. A total of 363 samples were collected for analysis. Surveys were utilized for data collection, encompassing 39 items that measured product characteristics, perceived value, satisfaction, purchase intention, and demographic information.</br>Using the collected data, various statistical analyses were conducted including descriptive statistics, exploratory factor analysis, reliability analysis, correlation analysis and multiple regression using SPSS version 21. The ensuing results from the correlation analysis and multiple regression analysis are as follows.RESULTS Product features, including aesthetics, symbolism, and scarcity, had a positive impact on consumer’s perceived emotional value. Moreover, product features, encompassing aesthetics, symbolism, scarcity, and creativity played a significant role in enhancing consumer’s perceived economic value. Furthermore, product attributes such as aesthetics, symbolism, and creativity positively contributed to consumer’s perceived social value. Similarly, product features comprising aesthetics, scarcity, creativity, and symbolism positively affected consumer’s perceived intellectual value. Additionally, the research revealed that product features related to aesthetics, symbolism, creativity, and scarcity were instrumental in bolstering consumer. Importantly, these very attributes, including aesthetics, symbolism, scarcity, and creativity, exhibited a positive influence on consumers’ purchase intentions.CONCLUSIONS In conclusion, this study underscores the substantial impact of professional baseball NFT product characteristics on consumers’ perceptions, satisfaction, and purchase intentions. To maintain enduring relationships with consumers who engage with professional baseball NFT products, it is essential to fortify these product attributes and offer diverse services utilizing them.

A profitable trading algorithm for cryptocurrencies using a Neural Network model

Algorithmic trading enables the execution of orders using a set of rules determined by a computer program. Orders are submitted based on an asset’s expected price in the future, an approach well suited for high-volatility markets, such as those trading in cryptocurrencies. The goal of this study is to find a reliable and profitable model to predict the future direction of a crypto asset’s price based on publicly available historical data. We first develop a novel labeling scheme and map this problem into a Machine Learning classification problem. The model is then validated on three major cryptocurrencies through an extensive backtest over a bull, bear and flat market. Finally, the contribution of each feature to the classification output is analyzed.

Evaluating the Association between the Implementation of the PoET Southwest Spread Project and Reductions in Acute Care Transfers from Long-Term Care: A Quasi-Experimental Matched Cohort Study Using Population-Level Health Administrative Data

ObjectivesTo measure changes in resident-level acute care transfer rates after the PoET Southwest Spread Project (PSSP), and to identify patient and long-term care (LTC) home characteristics associated with acute care transfers after program launch. DesignQuasi-experimental matched (1:1 ratio) cohort study design using linked population-based health administrative data. SettingSixty publicly funded LTC homes (PSSP = 30; control = 30) in Ontario, Canada, from November 2019 to December 2021. MethodsWe matched 30 PSSP homes to 30 control homes with similar characteristics and described incidence rates for resident-level acute care transfers during the 7-month post-implementation period. We used generalized linear mixed models to evaluate the association between PSSP implementation and acute care transfers during the post-implementation period. We adjusted resident-level characteristics (ie, age, sex, comorbidity status) and home-level characteristics (ie, rurality status, profit model, COVID-19 impact). We identified a decedent sub-cohort to measure transfer patterns during the last 2 months of life. ResultsA matched cohort of 8894 residents (PSSP = 4103; control = 4791) was captured. Incidence rates of transfers increased during the post-implementation period for both PSSP (78.8 to 80.9 transfers per 1000 person-months) and control residents (66.9 to 67.9 transfers per 1000 person-months). After adjusting for covariates of interest, PSSP exposure was associated with a reduction in acute care transfers during the post-implementation period after adjusting for covariates (incidence rate ratio, 0.73; 95% CI, 0.62–0.87; P = .0002). Older age and select health regions were associated with reduced transfers, whereas higher comorbidity status and higher COVID-19 outbreak days were associated with increases. Similar patterns persisted for transfers during the last 2 months of life. Conclusions and ImplicationsThis study systematically evaluated the impact of an ethics-based health care intervention in LTC using health care utilization databases. PoET implementation is associated with reduced acute care transfer rates, especially in the last 2 months of life in LTC.

Literature Review on The Impact of Internet Finance Development on Commercial Bank Profit Model

By diverting customers, squeezing the scale of deposit and loan business and raising the cost of capital, internet finance can reduce the interest rate spread of commercial banks and compete with them in many fields. This paper adopts the method of literature review to comb and study the relevant literature of Internet finance, the profit model of commercial bank, the impact of Internet finance on the profit of commercial bank and the relevant literature of improvement, on this basis, this paper discusses the impact of Internet finance on commercial bank profit model in the future research direction.

RETRACTED ARTICLE: A Multilevel Fuzzy Evaluation of Cross-Border E-Commerce Profitability Model

With the continuous development of economic globalisation, China has established free trade zones (FTA). To promote the diversification of cross-border e-commerce in FTA and increase industry competitiveness, the Porter's Five Forces model (PFFM) was used to analyse the profit model of e-commerce enterprises. Based on fuzzy logic, an evaluation model for the profit model of cross-border e-commerce was constructed, and this evaluation model was used to evaluate the profitability of cross-border e-commerce. The results show that the evaluation model constructed based on fuzzy logic can better reflect the profitability of enterprises. The accuracy of multilevel fuzzy evaluation is above 80% every year, with the highest accuracy being in 2017, and the evaluation accuracy for that year is 98.5%. The study of a cross-border e-commerce profit evaluation model based on multilevel fuzzy evaluation method can better reflect the profitability of enterprises and help them clarify their future development direction.

Research on Profit-Sharing Mechanism of IPD Projects Considering Multidimensional Fairness Preferences and BIM

The integration of building information modeling (BIM) and the integrated project delivery (IPD) mode effectively promotes collaboration among project members and enhances project profitability. However, the issue of profit sharing significantly impacts the successful implementation of IPD projects. To enhance the profit-sharing mechanism of IPD projects and ensure their smooth implementation, a game analysis model of profit sharing in IPD projects was established based on the Stackelberg game theory, taking into account the multidimensional fair preferences of the participants and the application of BIM technology. Through simulation, the impact of various parameters of participants on output utility, total revenue, and sharing coefficient in IPD projects was analyzed. The results show that: (1) participants achieve their highest output utility and total revenue under vertical–horizontal fairness preferences; (2) under vertical fairness preferences, the profit sharing coefficient is the highest, while the output utility and total revenue are the lowest; (3) although the output utility and total revenue of participants under horizontal fairness preferences exceed those under neutral fairness preferences, the profit-sharing coefficient is lower; (4) the output utility, the total revenue, and the profit-sharing coefficient of the participants all increase with the increase in effort utility value and decrease with the increase in the effort cost coefficient and the risk avoidance coefficient. The research findings provide valuable theoretical support for the profit sharing of IPD projects, thereby further promoting the advancement and implementation of the IPD model.

The Impact of E-commerce Livestreaming on the Purchasing Behavior of Chinese Nationals

The onset of COVID-19 in December 2019 dealt a devastating blow to offline consumption. However, it also accelerated the emergence of certain phenomena, including the rapid rise of the e-commerce livestreaming. This represents an innovative exploration of market operations and profit models using new network media. E-commerce live-streaming content aims to convert live video viewers into online store buyers. The main purpose of e-commerce livestreaming is to convert viewers into online store buyers and promote product sales. During the live-streaming process, hosts showcase and introduce products, demonstrate their usage, answer viewers' questions, and enhance their awareness and desire to purchase, thereby achieving promotional goals. In addition, through live streaming interactions and creating a good user experience, e-commerce platforms, and brands can increase user loyalty and brand awareness, and improve market share, and competitiveness. Therefore, e-commerce livestreaming has become an important component of marketing strategies for major e-commerce platforms and brands. However, previous literature pertaining to social media has predominantly focused on issues such as the adoption of social media, user engagement, knowledge contribution, as well as the utilization of social media as a marketing intelligence tool by businesses. There are few discussions about the direct or indirect impact of this content on consumer behavior. This article analyzes the impact of e-commerce livestreaming on the purchasing behavior of Chinese nationals and infers the reasons for the conversion, focusing on one of the more intuitive consumption phenomena.

Balancing short-term gains and long-term success in lodging: The role of customer satisfaction and price in hotel profitability model

This study examines the relationship between revenue and profit drivers and long-term financial performance in the hotel industry based on 17-years data (2004–2020) of six US hotel chains. The analysis creates, tests, and analyzes a cross-level model that examines the complex endogenous relationships, underlying long-term financial performance of hotels. Specifically, we examine the interaction of room price (ADR) and customer satisfaction (ACSI) within a sales-volume-driver framework that impacts financial performance through profitability, measured at both the operating and accounting levels. This study seeks to advance our understanding of these relationships, their characteristics, and their implications for long-term financial performance in the hotel industry. The findings reveal that customer satisfaction is more important than price in achieving long-term financial success in the hotel industry, whereas room nights sold is significant positive driver of all performance levels.

An Analysis of the PayPals Corporate Strategy for Success

As a popular international trade payment tool, PayPal is loved by the masses around the world, utilizing its advanced technology, risk management and control, and customer service capabilities in the field of e-commerce payments. This paper gives information about PayPal and its current development. On the basis of the existing literature and data, the main purpose of the essay is to summarize the advantages of PayPals corporate strategy by analyzing its specific profit model and to explore the secrets of PayPals success. The analysis of PayPals success can strengthen its competitiveness in the field of online payment platforms and it also provides a better reference for other companies of the same type. Through specific theories and data from PayPal, this paper was able to conclude that Paypals greatest corporate strategic advantage is its combination of data insights, the Internet and technology, using SSL as a security system and expanding user base, gaining consumer trust and thus targeting consumer and merchant needs to create its own maximum profitability while having a sustainable competitive advantage.

Impact of COVID-19 on Cost and Profitability---Taking the Service Agency for Studying Abroad as an Example

After the outbreak of COVID-19 since the beginning of 2020, people were more cautious about the decision to study abroad. Objectively, it was difficult for people to get visas and buy air tickets because of the inconvenience of going abroad caused by the fuse of flights. Subjectively, people were worried about COVID-19 infection, so they tried to avoid leaving their country. As an intermediary, the business mode and the profit model of service agencies for studying abroad were also affected to some degree. In order to figure out how the costs and profitability changes according to COVID-19, many researchers had done some investigations on students who are prone to study abroad. From the perspective of economics, the costs of agencies were found to be rising significantly due to the uncertainty of COVID-19. It included fixed cost, sunk cost, opportunity cost and variable cost. But from another perspective, if an agency could adapt to the new situation as quickly as possible and grasp the new opportunities to offer a wider range of services, it might greatly increase its profits instead. Faced with this, agencies should focus on improving service quality and constantly expanding new service, such as language courses, career planning and internship training. Through cooperation with more high-level universities and famous enterprises at home and abroad, they could provide customers with more comprehensive services, as well as gain more profits.

Strategi Pengembangan Usaha Kafe “Inspirasi Kopi” Dengan Metode Business Model Canvas Dan Ten Types Of Innovation

Muhammadiyah organization and also their business entity have a lot of branch in various region. In Kabupaten Gresik there are Economy and Entrepreneur Council PCM GKB and many business entity. One of the business entity is Inspirasi Kopi Cafe, that was focusing on food and beverages. This business entity relatively new so it needs more strategic and new innovation for the future progress. Business Model Canvas and Ten Types of Innovation is the most perfect business model to be used for the developmen of Inspirasi Kopi Cafe. In this research use qualitative approach, that was producing descriptive data from deep interview that was held. The data research collected from four diffent source person. From the result of this research that was developed using Ten Types of Innovation is profit model innovation, Innovation of Serve, Innovation that was involving consument and Innovation product system. Reseracher decide to rearrange the Business Model Canvas that was adopted from the old Business Model Canvas with a research using interview and obeservation method, so that it formed the remodelling business model canvas that can help develop the business entity of Inspirasi Kopi Cafe.

Who consumes the credit union subsidies?

Credit unions in the United States (US) are exempt (benefit from subsidies) from federal corporate income taxes, which are traditionally justified by their non-profit cooperative status and mission of meeting the financial needs of individuals of modest means. In recent years, the efficacy and fairness of these subsidies has been debated extensively as the traditional demarcation between banks and credit unions and their respective customer bases have blurred. To investigate how credit unions allocate subsidies to various stakeholders, we estimate a structural profit model for matched pairs of credit unions and commercial banks. We find that credit unions use most (approximately 90%) of their tax exemption for the benefit of their membership via above-market deposit interest rates.

Maximizing efficiency and profit through productive asset management and risk control

This study aims to examine data and information related to the effect of productive asset management and risk control, both on operational efficiency (OER) and on the profitability of rural banks in West Java, Indonesia. This study was designed with the Ex Post Facto research method with descriptive-verification/associative objectives, namely providing descriptions and testing the relationship between variables (hypothetical testing) with the investigation type of causal relationship and correlation between variables. The unit of analysis is rural banks in West Java, with 26 cities/regencies, and one of the rural banks with the largest assets and complete financial data were chosen. This study observed its financial performance sourced from Bank Indonesia and the Financial Services Authority (2014), in the form of financial reports from each rural bank from 2010 to 2019, with consideration prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. The research findings resulted in a novelty, namely the Model of OER and Profitability (NPM and NIM) of rural banks which revealed that efforts to improve the performance of a healthy rural bank in West Java need to be supported by good management of productive assets and risk control.

Supply chain management with uncertainty in consumer perception of product greenness under an eco-label policy

The urgency of environmental preservation necessitates green manufacturing and supply chain advancements. This research examines a green supply chain problem influenced by eco-label policies, focusing on two prevalent market eco-label types. One allows the manufacturer to determine product greenness, while the other requires compliance with standards set by a non-governmental organization (NGO). We also explore the variability in consumer comprehension of eco-label implications and purchasing behaviors with different eco-labeled products. Through consumer utility and manufacturer profit models, we discover that the manufacturer's production and pricing choices significantly impact consumer behavior. Increased investigation costs may enhance consumer utility through improved product greenness, potentially boosting manufacturer profit via price hikes. However, if investigation costs are minimal, the NGO-label may be rejected due to decreased utility and profit. These insights could help direct supply chains by providing a theoretical foundation for green production decisions and future eco-label policies, whether determined by an NGO or the manufacturer.

Retracted: Enterprise Management Decision and Financial Management Based on Dynamic Cost Volume Profit Model

Retracted: Enterprise Management Decision and Financial Management Based on Dynamic Cost Volume Profit Model

Evolving deep gated recurrent unit using improved marine predator algorithm for profit prediction based on financial accounting information system

This research proposes a hybrid improved marine predator algorithm (IMPA) and deep gated recurrent unit (DGRU) model for profit prediction in financial accounting information systems (FAIS). The study addresses the challenge of real-time processing performance caused by the increasing complexity of hybrid networks due to the growing size of datasets. To enable effective comparison, a new dataset is created using 15 input parameters from the original Chinese stock market Kaggle dataset. Additionally, five DGRU-based models are developed, including chaotic MPA (CMPA) and the nonlinear MPA (NMPA), as well as the best Levy-based variants, such as the dynamic Levy flight chimp optimization algorithm (DLFCHOA) and the Levy-base gray wolf optimization algorithm (LGWO). The results indicate that the most accurate model for profit forecasting among the tested algorithms is DGRU-IMPA, followed by DGRU-NMPA, DGRU-LGWO, DGRU-DLFCHOA, DGRU-CMPA, and traditional DGRU. The findings highlight the potential of the proposed hybrid model to improve profit prediction accuracy in FAIS, leading to enhanced decision-making and financial management.

ОЦІНКА ВПЛИВУ ІННОВАЦІЙНОГО ПОТЕНЦІАЛУ РЕСУРСОЗАБЕЗПЕЧЕННЯ НА ФІНАНСОВУ ЕФЕКТИВНІСТЬ АГРАРНОГО СЕКТОРА ЕКОНОМІКИ УКРАЇНИ

The purpose of the study is to improve the methodological support for the assessment of the financial efficiency of the agricultural sector of Ukraine under the influence of the innovative potential management of its resource provision. The main scientific methods used in the study are fundamental provisions of the theory of innovation and finance, correlation and multifactor regression analysis, mathematical programming, etc. According to the results of the conducted research the parameter of technological progress as an indicator of the level of innovation development of the agrarian sector of the Ukrainian economy was obtained after modelling of autoregressive multiplicative Tinbergen-Solow production function. The numerical value of the technological progress parameter indicates a potential for additional growth in agricultural output of +0.142%, while other conditions remain unchanged. 23 indicators of the state of the resource provision of the agricultural sector were systematized in 4 groups: the results of the production activity of the agricultural sector (6 indicators), the resource supply of the agricultural sector (8 indicators), the efficiency of the use of resources by agricultural enterprises (4 indicators), and sustainability of the financial condition of agricultural enterprises (5 indicators). A power-law four-factor regression model of the impact of the output volume of the agricultural sector, the value of current assets, return on capital and the current liquidity ratio on the volume of net profit of agricultural enterprises of Ukraine was obtained. It is proved that the elasticity of net profit for agricultural output is 0.01%, for the value of current assets - 1.46%, for capital accumulation - 0.72%, for current liquidity - 3.2%. We constructed the target functions of maximization of the agricultural production output on the basis of the Tinbergen-Solow production function, net profit on the basis of the four-factor power model of net profit, return on equity on the basis of the two-factor DuPont model for the short term. The solving of target functions allowed for maximization of the return on equity of agrarian enterprises of Ukraine only at the expense of the existing innovation potential of production resources and will be used in further research by the authors.