Frequently, manufacturers experience supply disruptions due to supplier bankruptcies. Manufacturers can increase supplier reliability by providing suppliers subsidies in excess of suppliers' production costs. We examine the optimal subsidy decisions of manufacturers in four supply chain...

This paper analyzes a unit-contingent power purchase agreement between an electricity distributor and a power plant. Under such a contract the distributor pays the plant a fixed price if the plant is operational and nothing if plant outage occurs. Pricing a unit-contingent contract is...

This paper utilizes a two-stage, n-firm differentiated products framework to examine the effects of competition for investors' capital and uncertainty in private equity fundraising. In the first stage, a firm must decide when to raise capital in an environment with uncertain market size. Firms...

We employ a two-stage, n-firm differentiated products framework to examine the effect of competition for investors' capital, uncertainty, and barriers to entry on private equity fundraising. In the first stage, firms simultaneously decide whether or not they will raise capital. Participating...

Problem definition: More than 25 million refugees lived in camps in 2019 due to multiple armed conflicts worldwide. Humanitarian organizations (HOs) help refugees through in-kind (e.g. food) assistance traditionally and, just recently, through cash (monetary assistance) that refugees can spend...

We extend the classical asset-selling problem to include debt repayment obligation, selling capacity constraint, and Markov price evolution. Specifically, we consider the problem of selling a divisible asset which is acquired through debt financing. The amount of asset that can be sold per...