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作者：Lu, Xianghua; Lu, Tian; Wang, Chong (Alex); Wu, Ruofan
作者单位：Fudan University; Carnegie Mellon University; Peking University; Ant Group
摘要：Payment management is an operations management challenge in online peer-to-peer (P2P) lending. It is critical to control the cost of debt collection incurred in late repayments and defaults. We study whether and how a platform can leverage on borrowers' social connections and use automatic social notifications in regulating repayment behavior. In collaboration with a large online P2P lending platform, we conduct a randomized field experiment to investigate the effect of social notifications ta...
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作者：Vedantam, Aditya; Iyer, Ananth
作者单位：State University of New York (SUNY) System; University at Buffalo, SUNY; Purdue University System; Purdue University
摘要：Business users (suppliers) of information technology (IT) equipment often contract with third party remanufacturers (3PRs) for the end-of-use disposition of their used electronic equipment. Our goal in this research is to develop a model to analyze contracts consisting of an upfront payment (t) and a revenue share (r) between a supplier and 3PR, study their impact on disposition decisions, and explore the impact of 3PR risk-aversion and quality uncertainty on optimum contracts. We model a Stac...
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作者：Ales, Laurence; Cho, Soo-Haeng; Korpeoglu, Ersin
作者单位：Carnegie Mellon University; University of London; University College London
摘要：This study examines innovation tournaments in which an organizer seeks solutions to an innovation-related problem from a number of agents. Agents exert effort to improve their solutions but face uncertainty about their solution performance. The organizer is interested in obtaining multiple solutions-agents whose solutions contribute to the organizer's utility are called contributors. Motivated by mixed policies observed in practice, where some tournaments are open and others restrict entry, we...
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作者：Spearman, Mark L.; Hopp, Wallace J.
作者单位：University of Michigan System; University of Michigan
摘要：Throughout its history, the industrial engineering/operations management (IE/OM) field has relied heavily on axiomatic models and empirical studies of individual systems. But, unlike other engineering and management disciplines, it lacks a clear foundation in a descriptive science. Exceptional results like the famous bullwhip effect paper by Lee et al. (1997) hint at the powerful potential for a descriptive science of operations. But the very fact that such works are exceptional suggests that ...
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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：Anderson, Edward G., Jr.; Parker, Geoffrey G.; Tan, Yinliang (Ricky)
作者单位：University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin; Dartmouth College; Tulane University
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作者：Ma, Qian; Shou, Biying; Huang, Jianwei; Basar, Tamer
作者单位：Sun Yat Sen University; City University of Hong Kong; The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen; Shenzhen Research Institute of Big Data; University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
摘要：The quality of many online services (such as online games, video streaming, cloud services) depends not only on the service capacity but also on the number of users using the service simultaneously. For a new online service, the potential users are often uncertain about both the capacity and congestion level of the service, and hence are uncertain about the quality of service (QoS). In this study, we consider users' participation-dependent social learning (PDSL), that is, learning of the QoS t...
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作者：Kamalzadeh, Hossein; Ahuja, Vishal; Hahsler, Michael; Bowen, Michael E.
作者单位：Southern Methodist University; Southern Methodist University; University of Texas System; University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
摘要：Type 2 diabetes is a chronic disease that affects millions of Americans and puts a significant burden on the healthcare system. The medical community sees screening patients to identify and treat prediabetes and diabetes early as an important goal; however, universal population screening is operationally not feasible, and screening policies need to take characteristics of the patient population into account. For instance, the screening policy for a population in an affluent neighborhood may di...
