作者：Chintapalli, Prashant; Tang, Christopher S.
作者单位：Western University (University of Western Ontario); University of California System; University of California Los Angeles
摘要：In many developing countries, crop minimum support price (MSP) is a subsidy scheme to (i) improve farmer welfare by safeguarding farmers' incomes against vagaries in crop price and (ii) improve consumer surplus by ensuring sufficient crop production. Among different mechanisms to operationalize an MSP scheme, we focus on credit-based MSPs under which the government credits farmers should the prevailing market price be below the prespecified MSP. By accounting for the implementation cost of the...
作者：Kamalahmadi, Masoud; Yu, Qiuping; Zhou, Yong-Pin
作者单位：University of Miami; University System of Georgia; Georgia Institute of Technology; University of Washington; University of Washington Seattle
摘要：Just-in-time scheduling has become ubiquitous in the service industries. Although effective in reducing staffing level, hence labor cost, the potential impact of just-in-time scheduling on workers' productivity and the firm's revenue is not well understood. Using a data set of 1,444,044 transactions from 25 stores of a full-service casual dining restaurant chain in the United States, we study how just-in-time scheduling impacts worker productivity. We consider two types of just-in-time schedul...
