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作者：Mohammadi, Mina; Heese, H. Sebastian; Kraft, Tim
作者单位：North Carolina State University
摘要：The recently enacted Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) includes a number of incentive-based programs (e.g., tax credits) designed to motivate firms to develop new clean technologies for fighting climate change. However, the IRA also includes a fee firms incur for excessive methane emissions. This represents the first time the United States government has ever levied a fee on greenhouse gas emissions, and it raises an interesting research question-how should a budget-constrained regulator balance t...
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作者：Singhal, Vinod; Wu, Jing
作者单位：University System of Georgia; Georgia Institute of Technology; Chinese University of Hong Kong
摘要：The bullwhip effect (BWE) is an important phenomenon in the operations and supply chain management field. Although it is commonly accepted that the BWE is widespread and can have a significant adverse impact on financial performance, there is surprisingly limited objective evidence on the financial consequences of the BWE. This paper examines the impact of the BWE on financial performance by examining the relationship between the BWE and stock price performance. The empirical analysis is based...
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作者：Awaysheh, Amrou; Narayanan, Sriram; Jacobs, Brian W.
作者单位：Indiana University System; Indiana University Indianapolis; IU Kelley School of Business; Michigan State University; Michigan State University's Broad College of Business; Pepperdine University
摘要：Using factory-level data from a large multinational manufacturer, we examine the effects of both organizational experience and knowledge transfer on an increasingly critical environmental performance measure, the consumption of water required for manufacturing. We estimate the direct effects on water consumption from in-factory cumulative production experience and the vicarious learning from peer factories in the same product category. We consider vicarious learning from three potential source...
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作者：Jenkins, Donald John; Pajouh, Foad Mahdavi; Kirshen, Paul H.; Eftekhar, Mahyar
作者单位：University of Massachusetts System; University of Massachusetts Boston; Stevens Institute of Technology; University of Massachusetts System; University of Massachusetts Boston; Arizona State University; Arizona State University-Tempe
摘要：This study aims to extend the existing climate-change-induced flood mitigation research. We introduce an at-risk network to evaluate optimal cost-benefit strategies for creating dikes and levees to mitigate flood hazard over multiple years. Our proposed model includes the expected flood costs, estimated using possible climate-change-induced sea-level states throughout the planning horizon, and the investment costs for developing dikes and levees via land elevations across the at-risk network. ...
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作者：Ahn, Hyun Soo; Cetinkaya, Eren; Duenyas, Izak; Zhang, Mengzhenyu
作者单位：University of Michigan System; University of Michigan; University of London; University College London
摘要：This paper studies how capacity collaboration can benefit two competing firms. We consider a two-stage model where capacity decisions are made in the first stage when there are significant uncertainties about market conditions, and then production decisions are made in the second stage after most of these uncertainties are resolved. We vary the degree of collaboration between the two firms in their capacity and production decisions, examining multiple models and comparing the outcomes. We find...
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作者：Zhu, Yan; Liu, Zhixin; Qi, Xiangtong
作者单位：Chinese Academy of Sciences; University of Science & Technology of China, CAS; University of Michigan System; University of Michigan Dearborn; Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
摘要：This article studies an appointment scheduling problem where a service provider dynamically receives appointment requests from a random number of customers. By leveraging the randomness of the number of potential customers, we develop a nonsequential appointment scheduling policy as an alternative to the conventional first-come-first-served (FCFS) policy. This allows for more flexibility in managing appointment scheduling. To calculate the optimal policy, we develop a branch-and-bound algorith...
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作者：Wang, Zhiyi; Yang, Lusi; Karamshetty, Varun; Hahn, Jungpil
作者单位：University of Colorado System; University of Colorado Boulder; University System of Georgia; Georgia State University; National University of Singapore
摘要：Natural disasters and disease outbreaks cause substantial social turbulence and economic damage. The survival and continued operation of local small businesses and entrepreneurs are critical to the development activities in post-disaster recovery. However, these small businesses and entrepreneurs face greater challenges in accessing funding through traditional channels during a crisis. Crowdlending, also known as peer-to-peer microfinancing, has been successfully used to bypass traditional cha...
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作者：Min, Xu; Chi, Wei; Hu, Xing; Ye, Qing
作者单位：Shanghai International Studies University; Tsinghua University; University of Hong Kong
摘要：On-demand service platforms are interested in having gig workers use self-set, nonbinding performance goals to improve efforts and performance. To examine the effects of such self-set goal mechanisms, we build a behavioral model, derive theoretical results and testable hypotheses, and conduct a field experiment using a large gig platform for food delivery. Our model analysis finds that individual workers' optimal self-set goals may exhibit a spectrum of difficulty levels, ranging from trivial ...
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作者：Li, Shaobo (Kevin); Wang, Le; Huang, Jianxiong; Gopal, Ram; Lin, Zhijie
作者单位：Huazhong University of Science & Technology; Southern University of Science & Technology; City University of Hong Kong; South China University of Technology; University of Warwick; Tsinghua University
摘要：To address the growing obesity crisis, governments are promoting home cooking to improve dietary habits. Home-cooked food-sharing platforms, a manifestation of the sharing economy, offer consumers healthy food options. While the economic benefits of the sharing economy have been extensively studied, little is known about its impact on non-economic factors, such as consumers' health. To address this gap, we conduct an empirical study using data from a mobile kitchen-sharing platform and four co...
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作者：Qiu, Lin; Qiao, Dandan; Tan, Bernard C. Y.; Whinston, Andrew B.
作者单位：Southern University of Science & Technology; National University of Singapore; University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin
摘要：Hate crimes, which stem from prejudiced attitudes, have a distributionally detrimental impact on societal stability. Although inter-group contacts are potentially an effective means for reducing prejudice and subsequently decreasing the number of hate crimes, scholars have recently recognized the possibility of negative contacts that might actually amplify prejudice. As a result, the question of whether intergroup contacts truly possess the ability to effectively decrease hate crime numbers re...
