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作者：Gawande, K; Bohara, AK
作者单位：Texas A&M University System; Texas A&M University College Station; Bush School of Government & Public Service; University of New Mexico
摘要：We study two issues in the enforcement of public law. The first is whether the system of inspections and penalties set by the regulator is effective. The second is whether a better system of inspections and penalties can be designed, given the institutional constraints under which the regulator must function. We study these issues in the context of oil spill prevention activities of the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG), the agency entrusted with the enforcement of maritime pollution laws. A theoretical...
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作者：Debo, LG; Toktay, LB; Van Wassenhove, LN
作者单位：Carnegie Mellon University; University System of Georgia; Georgia Institute of Technology; INSEAD Business School
摘要：Remanufacturing is a production strategy whose goal is to recover the residual value of used products. Used products can be remanufactured at a lower cost than the initial production cost, but consumers value remanufactured products less than new products. The choice of production technology influences the value that can be recovered from a used product. In this paper, we solve the joint pricing and production technology selection problem faced by a manufacturer that considers introducing a re...
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作者：Graves, SC; Willems, SP
作者单位：Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); Boston University
摘要：We address how to configure the supply chain for a new product for which the design has already been decided. The central question is to determine what suppliers, parts, processes, and transportation modes to select at each stage in the supply chain. There might be multiple options to supply a raw material, to manufacture or assemble the product, and to transport the product to the customer. Each of these options is differentiated by its lead time and direct cost added. Given these various cho...
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作者：Song, J; Zahedi, F
作者单位：Texas Tech University System; Texas Tech University; University of Wisconsin System; University of Wisconsin Milwaukee
摘要：Effective website design plays a critical role in attracting and maintaining customers' interest. Despite the importance of websites as the major and, at times, sole channel of communication in e-business, little theoretical knowledge is available about how websites may influence online shoppers' attitudes and behavior. In this paper, we develop a conceptual framework for measuring the impact of Web-design elements on the beliefs and behavior of Web customers. In developing the theoretical mod...
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作者：Gaur, V; Giloni, A; Seshadri, S
作者单位：New York University; Yeshiva University
摘要：In this paper we study how the time-series structure of the demand process affects the value of information sharing in A supply chain. We consider a two-stage supply chain model in which a retailer serves auto-regressive moving-average (ARMA) demand and a manufacturer fills the retailer's orders. We characterize three types of situations based on the parameters of the demand process: (i) the manufacturer benefits from inferring demand. information from the retailer's orders; (ii) the manufactu...
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作者：Chen, RR; Roundy, RO; Zhang, RQ; Janakiraman, GE
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Riverside; Cornell University; Hong Kong University of Science & Technology; New York University
摘要：We consider multiunit Vickrey auctions for procurement supply chain settings. This is the first paper that incorporates transportation costs into auctions in a complex supply network. We first introduce an auction mechanism that makes simultaneous production and transportation decisions so that. the total supply chain cost is minimized and induces truth telling from the suppliers. Numerical study shows that considerable supply chain cost savings can be achieved if production and transportation...
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作者：Chen, FR; Zenios, SA
作者单位：Columbia University; Stanford University
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作者：Hosanagar, K; Krishnan, R; Chuang, J; Choudhary, V
作者单位：University of Pennsylvania; Carnegie Mellon University; University of California System; University of California Berkeley; University of California System; University of California Irvine
摘要：Network caches are the storage centers in the supply chain for content delivery-the digital equivalent of warehouses. Operated by access networks and other operators, they provide benefits to content publishers in the forms of bandwidth cost reduction, response time improvement, and handling of flash crowds. Yet, caching has not been fully embraced by publishers, because its use can interfere with site personalization strategies and/or collection of visitor information for business intelligenc...
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作者：Kwasnica, AM; Ledyard, JO; Porter, D; DeMartini, C
作者单位：Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Pennsylvania State University; Pennsylvania State University - University Park; California Institute of Technology; California Institute of Technology; George Mason University; RAND Corporation
摘要：In this paper we present a new improved design for multiobject auctions and report on the results of experimental test's of that design. We merge the better features of two extant but very different auction processes, the Simultaneous Multiple Round (SMR) design used by the FCC to auction the electromagnetic spectrum and the Adaptive User Selection Mechanism (AUSM) of Banks et al. (1989, Allocating uncertain and unresponsive resources: An experimental approach, RAND Journal of Economics, Vol. ...
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作者：Gibbons, R
作者单位：Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
摘要：This paper reviews the significant progress in agency theory (i.e., the economic theory of incentives) during the 1990s, with an eye toward applications to supply transactions. I emphasize six recent models, in three pairs: (1) new foundations for the theory of incentive contracts, (2) new directions in incentive theory, and (3) new applications to supply transactions. By reviewing these six models, I hope to establish three things. First, the theory of incentive contracts needed and received ...
