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作者：Atasoy, Hilal; Demirezen, Emre M.; Chen, Pei-Yu
作者单位：Rutgers University System; Rutgers University New Brunswick; State University System of Florida; University of Florida; Arizona State University; Arizona State University-Tempe
摘要：We investigate the impact of health information exchange (HIE) use at the visit level on patient outcomes, such as future visit behavior and the number of procedures performed on the patient, and how the effects differ across patient and visit characteristics, for example, whether a patient has chronic conditions and whether a visit involves a hospital switch. Timely sharing of patient information is expected to decrease the fragmentation of care and improve decision-making, diagnoses, and car...
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作者：Aral, Karca D.; Beil, Damian R.; Van Wassenhove, Luk N.
作者单位：Syracuse University; University of Michigan System; University of Michigan
摘要：Buyers are increasingly pressured to ensure sustainability of their suppliers, but they are also under pressure for low-cost procurement. To make a more informed procurement decision, a buyer can choose to invest in sustainability assessments, and select a supplier based on their price bids and cost markup terms informed by the sustainability assessments. However, sustainability assessments are costly, and whether to use them is at the discretion of the buyer. Hence, the buyer can instead choo...
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作者：Jiang, Baojun; Sudhir, K.; Zou, Tianxin
作者单位：Washington University (WUSTL); Yale University; State University System of Florida; University of Florida
摘要：A firm's product-cost information is increasingly transparent to consumers as the firm itself or third parties publish such information, which reduces consumers' uncertainty for the product's cost. Using a dynamic model of firm pricing with forward-looking consumer choices, this study assesses how cost transparency affects the firm's intertemporal price discrimination and profit, as well as the consumers' strategic waiting decisions and surplus.Ceteris paribus, if consumers believe a durable p...
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作者：Wang, Zizhuo; Yang, Chaolin; Yuan, Hongsong; Zhang, Yaowu
作者单位：The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen; Shanghai University of Finance & Economics
摘要：In this study, we consider the problem of estimating demand functions using historical sales data. In particular, we study how using aggregate data may result in bias in such estimations. We consider a log-log demand model, and two ways of how the price in the aggregate data is calculated, simple average price or weighted average price. We study whether there exists estimation bias in each of the two cases as well as the direction of the bias. We show that in general, the correlation between a...
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作者：Furman, Eugene; Diamant, Adam; Kristal, Murat
作者单位：University of Toronto; York University - Canada
摘要：We investigate the trade-off between acquisition and retention efforts when customers are sensitive to the quality of service they receive, that is, whether they get timely access to a company's resources when requested. We model the problem as a multi-class queueing network with new and returning customers, time-dependent arrivals, and abandonment. We derive its fluid approximation; a system of ordinary linear differential equations with continuous, piecewise smooth, right-hand sides. Based o...
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作者：Zhou, Shenghai; Ding, Yichuan; Huh, Woonghee Tim; Wan, Guohua
作者单位：Central South University; McGill University; University of British Columbia; Shanghai Jiao Tong University
摘要：We consider the classical appointment scheduling problem that does not have a session length constraint. The decision is to determine job allowances to minimize total expected weighted costs of waiting times of jobs and idle times of the service provider. In particular, we study a simple yet effective scheduling policy-the so-called constant policy, which allocates a constant job allowance for each appointment. Prior studies on appointment scheduling suggest a dome-shaped structure for the opt...
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作者：Johnsen, Lennart C.; Sadrieh, Abdolkarim; Voigt, Guido
作者单位：University of Hamburg; Otto von Guericke University
摘要：In laboratory experiments, we compare the performance of short-term and long-term contracts in a two-period supplier-buyer dyad with asymmetric cost information. We find that buyers tend to reject offers if the payoff inequality increases from one period to the next. We coin this dynamic form of inequity aversion as ratcheting aversion. We show that under short-term contracting, the buyer's ratcheting aversion limits the supplier's leeway to exploit information revelation in earlier periods be...
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作者：Abouee-Mehrizi, Hossein; Baron, Opher; Berman, Oded; Chen, David
作者单位：University of Waterloo; University of Toronto; The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen
摘要：In this study, we examine whether it is optimal to use electric vehicles (EVs) in the car sharing market and investigate the environmental impact of pulling the EVs from the market. We develop a model consisting of a profit-maximizing car sharing company (CSC) and a population of utility-maximizing customers. The CSC sets the number of EVs, the number of fuel vehicles (FVs), and the rental price jointly to maximize its profit. Customers decide whether to use EVs, FVs, or public transportation ...
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作者：Stauffer, Jon M.; Kumar, Subodha
作者单位：Texas A&M University System; Texas A&M University College Station; Mays Business School; Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Temple University
摘要：Initial deployment decisions are critical to humanitarian organizations as they pre-position resources and prepare for predictable disasters, such as hurricanes, floods, and wildfires. Deploying too few resources results in unmet demand, bad publicity, and unhappy donors. However, deploying a large number of resources can also result in bad publicity and unhappy donors due to high costs and wasted resources when disasters do not occur as expected and deployed items are not managed efficiently....
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作者：Niu, Baozhuang; Chen, Kanglin; Chen, Lei; Ding, Chao; Yue, Xiaohang
作者单位：South China University of Technology; Southern University of Science & Technology; Jinan University; University of Hong Kong; University of Wisconsin System; University of Wisconsin Milwaukee
摘要：Motivated by dual sales channel operations in cross-border e-commerce, we analyze an e-tailer's strategic waiting decision for channel disruption information in a global supply chain. The e-tailer operates two sales channels: a bonded-warehouse channel with products prestocked before channel disruption for demand fulfillment; and a direct-shipping channel with products delivered directly from an overseas supplier. The direct-shipping channel is exposed to disruption risk that might be caused b...
