Stickiness of websites has been promoted as the predictor of web surfers’ ultimate purchase of products or services. Longer website exposure leads to a higher probability that a purchase or use behavior will emerge. Furthermore, trustworthiness and emotional beliefs play an important role in online behavior. The question is how long does it take web surfers to form trustworthiness and emotional...

In the paper [7], Guasoni studies financial markets which are subject to proportional transaction costs. The standard martingale framework of stochastic finance is not applicable in these markets, since the transaction costs force trading strategies to have bounded variation, while continuoustime martingale strategies have infinite transaction cost. The main question that arises out of [7] is w...

Sticky demand – sticky nominal spending – acts as a substitute for sticky prices. In an inventorytheoretic model of the demand for money, monetary injections are offset by endogenous movements in velocity that keep nominal spending flat. When embedded in a sticky price model, this reduces the model’s reliance on implausibly large amounts of exogenous stickiness. For example: 6 months asset mark...

This paper aims to analyze the factors affecting user stickiness of online visual art platform by developing a Push-Pull-Mooring (PPM) framework from perspective experience. The study collected 332 valid responses through an questionnaire and tested research model using structural equation modeling. results show that push effects (convenience perceived security risk), pull (function experience,...

In recent years, there has been a phenomenal proliferation of multifunctional fitness apps (MFAs), many which are deeply ingrained into modern daily life as an aid to trace, manage, and improve users’ health fitness. With technological advancement, these emerging information technology (IT) artifacts have the potential facilitate sustainable development society environment. However, MFAs facing...

Abstract Website providers find it increasingly difficult to convince users accept advertisements (ads) on their websites. In this study, we investigate ad quantity customization (AQC) as a practice counter these challenges. AQC refers the technological means through which website enable determine amount of ads displayed Drawing psychological empowerment theory, demonstrate in an online experim...

In location-based social networks (LBSNs), point-of-interest (POI) recommendations facilitate access to information for people by recommending attractive locations they have not previously visited. Check-in data and various contextual factors are widely taken into consideration obtain people’s preferences regarding POIs in existing POI recommendation methods. psychological effect-based recommen...

Herbicides have been extensively used in agriculture but people have not concerned about its adverse effects on plants and animals. The aim of the present study is to analyze the detrimental effects of two herbicides in Fagopyrum esculentum Moench (Variety: VL-7). The root tips were treated with four concentrations viz. 50, 100, 150 and 200 ppm of glyphosate and atrazine at room temperature for...