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[6 ARTICLES]

*Rafael A. Acevedo, Elvis Aponte, Pedro Harmath and Jose U. Mora : “Rational Irrationality: A Two Stage Decision Making Model” (39 pages)

*Michael McAleer : “A Critique of Recent Medical Research in JAMA on COVID-19” (102 pages)

*Cheng-Yuan Ho and Ira Puspitasari : “Intelligent Transportation Systems in Smart Cities: Application to Taichung City Bus, Taiwan” (23 pages)

*Goodness C. Aye : “Effects of Fiscal and Monetary Policy Uncertainty on Economic Activity in South Africa” (20 pages)

Aviral Kumar Tiwari, *Micheal Kofi Boachie and Rangan Gupta : “Network Analysis of Economic and Financial Uncertainties in Advanced Economies: Evidence from Graph-Theory” (27 pages)

*Michael McAleer : “A Critical Analysis of Some Recent Medical Research in Science on COVID-19” (116 pages)

[5 ARTICLES]

Dang-Khoa Duong, Thi Thanh-Phuong Phan, Kim-Hung Pho and *Michael McAleer :  “Impact of Board Characteristics and State Ownership on Dividend Policy in Vietnam” (34 pages)    

*Michael McAleer: “Seeking Clarity in a World Infected by COVID-19 and Fake News” (8 pages)

Semei Coronado, *Rangan Gupta, Besma Hkiri and Omar Rojas : “Time-Varying Spillovers between Currency and Stock Markets in the USA: Historical Evidence From More than Two Centuries” (32 pages).

Moawia Alghalith and *Wing-Keung Wong : “Extension of Stein’s Lemmas to General Functions and Distributions” (11 Pages).  

*Michael McAleer : “Summary of Advances in Decision Sciences (ADS) – 2020” (11 pages)

[7 ARTICLES]

Mapitsi Rangata, *Sonali Das and Montaz Ali : “Analysing Maximum Monthly Temperatures in South Africa for 45 years Using Functional Data Analysis” (27 pages) 

*A.C. Mahasinghe and L.A. Sarathchandra : “An Optimization Model for Production Planning in the Synthetic Fertilizer Industry” (34 pages)

*M. McAleer : “Comments on Recent COVID-19 Research in JAMA” (20 pages)

Riza Demirer, *Rangan Gupta, Asli Yuksel and Aydin Yuksel : “The US Term Structure and Return Volatility in Global REIT Markets” (25 pages) 

Adrián Mendieta-Aragón and *Teresa Garín-Muñoz :  “Foreign Tourism in Andalusia: A Dynamic Panel Data Analysis” (31 pages)

Fausto Corradin and *Domenico Sartore : “Risk Aversion: Differential Conditions for the Iso-Utility Curves with Positive Slope in Transformed Two-Parameter Distributions” (75 pages)

Chia-Lin Chang, *Michael McAleer and Vicente Ramos : “The Future of Tourism in the COVID-19 Era” (12 pages).

[6 ARTICLES]

*Philip Hans Franses : “Measurement Error in a First-order Autoregression” (14 pages)

Ngo Tung Hieu, Lam Minh Huy, Huynh Manh Phat, Nguyen Ngoc Phuong Anh and *Wing-Keung Wong : “Decision Sciences in Education: The STEMtech Model to Create Stem Products at High Schools in Vietnam” (50 pages)

Roberto Casarin, Fausto Corradin, Francesco Ravazzolo and *Domenico Sartore : “A Scoring Rule for Factor and Autoregressive Models Under Misspecification” (37 pages) 

Dona Ghosh, Jaydeep Sengupta and *Aviral Kumar Tiwari : “Revisiting the Role of Gender in Health Taxonomy: Evidence from the Elderly in India” (29 pages)

Yoko Konishi and *Yoshihiko Nishiyama : “Efficiency of the Retail Industry and Inelastic Supply” (32 pages) 

*Yao-Nan Lien, Jing-Doo Wang, Shin-Hung Pan, Cheng-Yuan Ho and Shu-Chuan Liao : “Analysis of Bus Commuting Time of High School Students in Taichung City, Taiwan” (22 pages)

[5 ARTICLES]

Nguyen Duy Suu, Thu-Quang Luu, Kim-Hung Pho and *Michael McAleer : “Net Interest Margin of Commercial Banks in Vietnam” (27 pages)

Nguyen Huu Hau, Tran Trung Tinh, Hoa Anh Tuong and *Wing-Keung Wong : “Review of Matrix Theory with Applications in Education and Decision Sciences” (41 pages)

*Michael McAleer : “Protecting Scientific Integrity and Public Policy Pronouncements on COVID-19” (14 pages)

*Felipe González-Arango, María Angélica López-Ardila and Javier Corredor : “When Incentives Beat Nudges But Not Bounded Rationality: Partial Effects of Incentives on Academic Cheating” (35 pages)

*Hang Keun Ryu and Daniel J. Slottje : “Does Political Dominance Impact Economic Inequality?” (28 pages)

[4 ARTICLES]

Rangan Gupta, Chi Keung Marco Lau and *Seong-Min Yoon : “OPEC News Announcement Effect on Volatility in the Crude Oil Market: A Reconsideration” (22 pages).

* Monica Billio, Roberto Casarin, Michele Costola and Lorenzo Frattarolo : “Opinion Dynamics and Disagreements on Financial Networks” (27 pages).

Buu-Chau Truong, Nguyen Van Thuan, Nguyen Huu Hau and * Michael McAleer : “Applications of the Newton-Raphson Method in Decision Sciences and Education” (28 pages).

*Michael McAleer : “Summary of Advances in Decision Sciences (ADS) – 2019” (11 pages) 

[5 ARTICLES]

Buu-Chau Truong, Kim-Hung Pho, Van-Buol Nguyen, Bui Anh Tuan, and * Wing-Keung Wong : “Graph Theory and Environmental Algorithmic Solutions to Assign Vehicles: Application to Garbage Collection in Vietnam” (35 pages).

Suné Ferreira and * Zandri Dickason-Koekemoer : “The Relationship Between Depositor Behaviour and Risk Tolerance in a South African Context” (19 pages).

* Bunjira Makond and Mayuening Eso : “Predictive Models for Classifying the Outcomes of Violence: Case Study for Thailand’s Deep South” (36 pages).

Goodness C. Aye and * Rangan Gupta : “Macroeconomic Uncertainty and the Comovement in Buying versus Renting in the USA” (28 pages).

Duc Hong Vo, Phuong Doan Ho, Chi Minh Ho and * Michael McAleer : “The Gender Wealth Gap by Household Head in Vietnam” (32 pages).

[6 ARTICLES]

* Atefeh Hasan-Zadeh : “Mathematical Modelling of Decision-Making: Application to Investment” (14 pages)

Tung Dang-Thanh Nguyen, Anh The Vo and * Duc Hong Vo: “The Determinants of Systematic Risk in Vietnam” (21 pages)

* Franck Adékambi : “Moments of Phase-type Aging Modeling for Health Dependent Costs” (27 pages)

Kim-Hung Pho, Thi Diem-Chinh Ho, Tuan-Kiet Tran, and * Wing-Keung Wong : “Moment Generating Function, Expectation and Variance of Ubiquitous Distributions with Applications in Decision Sciences: A Review” (85 pages)

* Rangan Gupta and Mark E. Wohar : “Presidential Cycles in the USA and the Dollar-Pound Exchange Rate: Evidence from Over Two Centuries” (12 pages)

Dong Li, * Shiqing Ling, Howell Tong, and Guangren Yang : “On Brownian Motion Approximation of Compound Poisson Processes with Applications to Threshold Models” (27 pages). 

[5 ARTICLES]

* Lutz Sommer: “The Influence of International Experience on Bargaining Behavior” (30 pages)

* M. McAleer, H.K. Ryu and D.J. Slottje: “A New Inequality Measure that is Sensitive to Extreme Values and Asymmetries” (30 pages)

* Duc Hong Vo, Quang Van Tuan and Trung Vu-Thanh Pham: “Sectoral Risks in Vietnam and Malaysia: A Comparative Analysis” (25 pages)

Esin Cakan, Riza Demirer, * Rangan Gupta and Josine Uwilingiye: “Economic Policy Uncertainty and Herding Behavior: Evidence from the South African Housing Market” (25 pages)

Kim-Hung Pho, Tuan-Kiet Tran, Thi Diem-Chinh Ho and * Wing-Keung Wong: “Optimal Solution Techniques in Decision Sciences: A Review” (47 pages)