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作者：Johnsen, Lennart C.; Sadrieh, Abdolkarim; Voigt, Guido
作者单位：University of Hamburg; Otto von Guericke University
摘要：In laboratory experiments, we compare the performance of short-term and long-term contracts in a two-period supplier-buyer dyad with asymmetric cost information. We find that buyers tend to reject offers if the payoff inequality increases from one period to the next. We coin this dynamic form of inequity aversion as ratcheting aversion. We show that under short-term contracting, the buyer's ratcheting aversion limits the supplier's leeway to exploit information revelation in earlier periods be...
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作者：Abouee-Mehrizi, Hossein; Baron, Opher; Berman, Oded; Chen, David
作者单位：University of Waterloo; University of Toronto; The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen
摘要：In this study, we examine whether it is optimal to use electric vehicles (EVs) in the car sharing market and investigate the environmental impact of pulling the EVs from the market. We develop a model consisting of a profit-maximizing car sharing company (CSC) and a population of utility-maximizing customers. The CSC sets the number of EVs, the number of fuel vehicles (FVs), and the rental price jointly to maximize its profit. Customers decide whether to use EVs, FVs, or public transportation ...
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作者：Stauffer, Jon M.; Kumar, Subodha
作者单位：Texas A&M University System; Texas A&M University College Station; Mays Business School; Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Temple University
摘要：Initial deployment decisions are critical to humanitarian organizations as they pre-position resources and prepare for predictable disasters, such as hurricanes, floods, and wildfires. Deploying too few resources results in unmet demand, bad publicity, and unhappy donors. However, deploying a large number of resources can also result in bad publicity and unhappy donors due to high costs and wasted resources when disasters do not occur as expected and deployed items are not managed efficiently....
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作者：Birge, John R.
作者单位：University of Chicago
摘要：Connections across commodity markets create the potential for risk to propagate and for failures to cascade as successive market agents fail. The structure of these networks is, however, often hidden and not directly observable. This article describes methods to uncover this hidden structure and the implications that these hidden connections may have for predicting risk propagation and cascading failures. The results are described in the context of electricity, gasoline, and financial markets....
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作者：Markou, Panos; Corsten, Daniel
作者单位：University of Virginia; IE University
摘要：Financial and operational risk management are central concepts at the intersection of finance, operations, and commodity risk management. Yet, empirical evidence on their effects on inventory is lacking. We use a fine-grained data set comprising the financial and operational risk management decisions of gold miners from 2003 to 2011 to empirically assess the effects of risk management on inventory. Faced with volatile gold prices, miners may manage (output) risk financially by committing to se...
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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：Drake, David F.; York, Jeffrey G.
作者单位：University of Colorado System; University of Colorado Boulder
摘要：US coal-fired generating capacity has shed nearly 25% of its footprint between 2011 and 2018. Multiple factors-regulation, natural gas prices, renewable energy adoption, and environmental activism-have each been lauded by various stakeholders for this trend. To improve our understanding of this environmental technology transition, it is important to determine the extent to which each of these factors has accelerated coal unit retirements. We do so in this study through an accelerated failure t...
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作者：Sharma, Neha; Devalkar, Sripad K.; Sohoni, Milind G.
作者单位：Northwestern University; Indian School of Business (ISB)
摘要：Payment for results (PfR) funding approach, where donors reimburse the non-profit organization (NPO) based on outcomes, is being increasingly adopted in the non-profit sector. However, there is also concern expressed by many voluntary organizations that such a funding approach puts an undue financial burden on small NPOs and could actually be detrimental to social welfare. In this study, we build a theoretical framework to analyze PfR funding mechanisms. We use a sequential game to model the i...
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作者：Lev, Baruch; Radhakrishnan, Suresh; Tong, Jamie Yixing
作者单位：New York University; University of Texas System; University of Texas Dallas; University of Queensland
摘要：This study examines the relationship between R&D expenditures and product-market, process-cost, and technological innovation/disruption-related uncertainties. For this purpose, the product-market, process-cost, and technological innovation related uncertainties are linked to earnings component volatilities. Specifically, product-market uncertainty is measured by future sales volatility; process-cost uncertainty by future cost of sales volatility; and technological innovation uncertainty by fut...
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作者：Chen, Jian; Huang, He; Liu, Liming; Xu, Hongyan
作者单位：Tsinghua University; Chongqing University; Hong Kong Polytechnic University
摘要：In this study, we examine the effect of the differences in both sales ability and reservation utility on the design of the pricing scheme and compensation contract under asymmetric information. Heterogeneity with ability-dependent reservation utility generates conflicted screening and pooling effects that preclude separating and pooling equilibria, respectively; with which agents may work harder under either centralized or delegated pricing scheme than if they were homogeneous and, in certain ...
