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作者：Hu, Bin; Kostamis, Dimitris
作者单位：University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
摘要：We study a manufacturer's optimal multiple-sourcing strategies when some but not all suppliers face risks of complete supply disruptions. Using an approximate model, we show that the optimal unreliable orders are ranked by a simple and intuitive criterion, and are invariant of minor market size changes. Furthermore, when ordering from one reliable and one unreliable supplier, we show that the total order quantity and its allocation between the two suppliers are independent decisions. We then t...
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作者：Hyndman, Kyle; Parmeter, Christopher F.
作者单位：University of Texas System; University of Texas Dallas; University of Miami
摘要：In 2008, Industry Canada auctioned 105MHz of spectrum to a group of bidders that included incumbents and potential new entrants into the Canadian mobile phone market, raising $4.25billion. In an effort to promote new entry, 40MHz of spectrum was set-aside for new entrants. In order to estimate the implicit cost of the set-aside provision, we estimate the parameters of the bidders' profit function via a maximum match estimator based on the notion of pairwise stability in matches. We find that a...
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作者：Chen, Wen; Feng, Qi; Seshadri, Sridhar
作者单位：Providence College; Purdue University System; Purdue University; Indian School of Business (ISB)
摘要：We study an average-cost stochastic inventory control problem in which the firm can replenish inventory and adjust the price at anytime. We establish the optimality to change the price from low to high in each replenishment cycle as inventory is depleted. With costly price adjustment, scale economies of inventory replenishment are reflected in the cycle time instead of lot sizeAn increased fixed ordering cost leads to an extended replenishment cycle but does not necessarily increase the order ...
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作者：Li, Zhaolin; Ryan, Jennifer K.; Shao, Lusheng; Sun, Daewon
作者单位：University of Sydney; Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; University of Melbourne
摘要：This study considers a supply chain with two heterogeneous suppliers and a common retailer whose type is either low-volume or high-volume. The retailer's type is unknown to the suppliers. The flexible supplier has a high variable cost and a low fixed cost, while the efficient supplier has a low variable cost and a high fixed cost. Each supplier offers the retailer a menu of contracts. The retailer chooses the contract that maximizes its expected profit. For this setting, we characterize the eq...
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作者：Kocabiyikoglu, Ayse; Gogus, Celile Itir; Gonul, M. Sinan
作者单位：Ihsan Dogramaci Bilkent University; Middle East Technical University
摘要：We study and compare decision-making behavior under the newsvendor and the two-class revenue management models, in an experimental setting. We observe that, under both problems, decision makers deviate significantly from normative benchmarks. Furthermore, revenue management decisions are consistently higher compared to the newsvendor order quantities. In the face of increasing demand variability, revenue managers increase allocations; this behavior is consistent with normative patterns when th...
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作者：Chen, Ming; Chen, Zhi-Long
作者单位：California State University System; California State University Long Beach; University System of Maryland; University of Maryland College Park
摘要：Dynamic pricing enables a firm to increase revenue by better matching supply with demand, responding to shifting demand patterns, and achieving customer segmentation. In the last 20years, numerous success stories of dynamic pricing applications have motivated a rapidly growing research interest in a variety of dynamic pricing problems in the academic literature. A large class of problems that arise in various revenue management applications involve selling a given amount of inventory over a fi...
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作者：Whitt, Ward
作者单位：Columbia University
摘要：We develop stochastic models to help manage the pace of play on a conventional 18-hole golf course. These models are for group play on each of the standard hole types: par-3, par-4, and par-5. These models include the realistic feature that k-2 groups can be playing at the same time on a par-k hole, but with precedence constraints. We also consider par-3 holes with a wave-up rule, which allows two groups to be playing simultaneously. We mathematically determine the maximum possible throughput ...
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作者：Huang, Tingliang; Chen, Ying-Ju
作者单位：Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; University of London; University College London; Hong Kong University of Science & Technology; Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
摘要：The existing queueing literature typically assumes that customers either perfectly know the expected waiting time or are able to form rational expectations about it. In contrast, in this article, we study canonical service models where customers do not have such full information or capability. We assume that customers lack full capability or ample opportunities to perfectly infer the service rate or estimate the expected waiting time, and thus can only rely on past experiences and anecdotal re...
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作者：Ghosh, Sugoutam; Piplani, Rajesh; Viswanathan, S.
作者单位：Nanyang Technological University; Nanyang Technological University
摘要：We consider an inventory system under continuous review with two demand classes that are different in terms of service level required (or penalty cost incurred for backordering of demand). Prior literature has proposed the critical level rationing (CLR) policy under which the demand from the lower priority class is backordered once inventory falls below the critical level. While this reduces the penalty cost for the higher demand class, the fill rate achieved for the lower priority demand clas...
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作者：Ahmadi, Reza; Iravani, Foad; Mamani, Hamed
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Los Angeles; University of Washington; University of Washington Seattle
摘要：Gray markets, also known as parallel imports, have created fierce competition for manufacturers in many industries. We analyze the impact of parallel importation on a price-setting manufacturer that serves two markets with uncertain demand, and characterize her policy against parallel importation. We show that ignoring demand uncertainty can take a significant toll on the manufacturer's profit, highlighting the value of making price and quantity decisions jointly. We find that adjusting prices...
