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作者：Ozbilge, Armagan; Benjaafar, Saif; Hassini, Elkafi; Parlar, Mahmut
作者单位：Dalhousie University; University of Michigan System; University of Michigan; McMaster University
摘要：Leveraging government tax incentives to prompt corporate charitable giving has gained considerable popularity over the past decade. This paper sheds light on the broader consequences of the U.S. government's tax-subsidy policy for charitable food donations, which is determined based on the fair market value (FMV) of the donated products. We incorporate the tax-subsidy into a monopolist food retailer's after-tax profit function. Market demand is both price- and quality-dependent, and the shelf-...
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作者：Wu, Fan
作者单位：Chinese University of Hong Kong
摘要：The increasing prevalence of patent infringement litigation in recent decades has imposed significant costs on firms. This paper empirically examines how this legal risk influences a key operational decision: vertical integration. Drawing on the real options theory (ROT), we argue that managers reduce the extent of vertical integration to preserve flexibility and make operational adjustments in anticipation of unfavorable outcomes from patent lawsuits. Using a dataset of public firms and a tex...
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作者：Li, Qiaomei; Gavin, Kara L.; Voils, Corrine, I; Mintz, Yonatan
作者单位：University of Wisconsin System; University of Wisconsin Madison; University of Wisconsin System; University of Wisconsin Madison; Utah System of Higher Education; University of Utah; US Department of Veterans Affairs; Veterans Health Administration (VHA); William S Middleton Memorial Veterans Hospital; Medical College of Wisconsin
摘要：Obesity is a critical healthcare issue affecting the United States. The least risk treatments available for obesity are behavioral interventions meant to promote diet and exercise. Often these interventions contain a mobile component that allows interventionists to collect participant-level data and provide participants with incentives and goals to promote long-term behavioral change. Recently, there has been interest in using direct financial incentives to promote behavior change. In general ...
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作者：Jiang, Houyuan; Pang, Zhan; Savin, Sergei
作者单位：University of Cambridge; Purdue University System; Purdue University; University of Pennsylvania
摘要：We study the effects of hospital consolidations on access to care in a competitive healthcare market in the presence of performance incentives. We consider a transition from a pre-merger market configuration where a payer delegates services to a market with two competing hospitals to a horizontally consolidated configuration under which the same entity manages two hospitals. We focus on two research questions: How should the payer set access-based performance incentives in response to a horizo...
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作者：Chaturvedi, Aadhaar
作者单位：Clemson University
摘要：We study information sharing contracts in which a privately informed retailer offers to share its demand information with the upstream competing manufacturers (suppliers) for a price. We investigate whether such information sharing contracts would ever be accepted by the manufacturers, especially when they can use alternative means, like screening contracts, to obtain the same information. For that we model a three-stage game between the retailer and the manufacturers in which the retailer fir...
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作者：Zhang, Jing; Xu, Jian; Wang, Xuequn; Fan, Weiguo; Yao, Xiaoxu; Yang, Zhonghua
作者单位：Dongbei University of Finance & Economics; University of New Mexico; University of Iowa; Jilin University
摘要：Online reviews play an important role in explaining product demand. Our study extends the literature by assessing how arousal (the intensity of the emotion), an important dimension of emotion, and valence (the positiveness of the emotion) can affect product demand across different customer groups. Specifically, regarding product demand from new customers, consumers infer service quality from expressed valence and arousal from other consumers' reviews. Regarding product demand from returning cu...
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作者：Bhatia, Anand; Swaminathan, Jayashankar M.
作者单位：IE University; University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
摘要：Healthcare services provided to patients with similar medical conditions are known to vary. Standardization of healthcare delivery is a relatively new, yet hotly debated approach to address clinical variations. Previous research on process standardization in health service delivery has focused on measuring adherence to established protocols available only for a limited set of medical conditions. We create an alternate construct that quantifies process standardization measured in terms of consi...
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作者：Mai, Yunke; Hu, Bin
作者单位：University of Kentucky; University of Texas System; University of Texas Dallas
摘要：Motivated by the recent rapid growths of freemium services, we study freemium service providers' dynamic operating policies to maximize their lifetime profits. We adopt a hybrid of the Bass diffusion model and the replicator equation from evolutionary game theory to capture the user base growth, and model the provider's dynamic decisions as an optimal control problem. We analyze two variants of the freemium business model inspired by two prominent examples, Dropbox and Spotify, which, respecti...
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作者：Chen, Zhou; He, Simai; Wang, Zhen; Zheng, Meng
作者单位：Southeast University - China; Shanghai Jiao Tong University; Shanghai University of Finance & Economics; Shanghai University of Finance & Economics
摘要：This study investigates a robust monopoly pricing problem, where a seller seeks to maximize expected revenue when selling a product to a buyer with limited information, specifically knowing only the mean, variance, and asymmetric information (semivariance) of the buyer's valuation distribution. We explore both deterministic and randomized pricing strategies and evaluate their performance under these constraints. We formulate two maximin problems aimed at maximizing the worst-case expected reve...
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作者：Modaresi, Sajad; Emadi, Seyed Morteza; Deshpande, Vinayak
作者单位：University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Chapel Hill; University of North Carolina School of Medicine
摘要：We study the click and purchase behavior of customers in an online retail setting by employing a structural estimation approach. In particular, we aim to understand the impact of the information available to the customer before and after the click on the customer's search and purchase behavior. We propose a sequential discrete choice framework to model the customer's search strategy, where the customer repeatedly decides between continuing her search by clicking on a product, or stopping her s...
