Consider a publisher of online display advertising that sells its ad resources in both an upfront market and a spot market. When planning its ad delivery, the publisher needs to make a trade-off between earning a greater short-term profit from the spot market and improving advertising...

The impact of Chinese culture can be felt in all areas of business and management in China, from Chinese firms to Western companies. This edited volume integrates contributions from multiple disciplines and countries, including China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, France, Australia, New Zealand, Canada,...

Coordinating the efforts of contractual parties in information security outsourcing is challenging given that a managed security service provider (MSSP) and its contractual partners cannot perfectly observe or verify each other's investment. This study examines the use of multilateral contracts...

Daily deal sites like Groupon and LivingSocial have been growing at an impressive rate. These sites provide merchants a new channel to advertise. A question is that if daily deals can help a merchant to signal its good quality. To answer this question, we present a signaling model, in which the...

This paper examines the impact of Fee-for-Service and Bundled Payment reimbursement schemes on the social welfare, the patient revisit rate, and the patient waiting time in a three-tiered public healthcare system comprising: (a) a public funder who decides on the reimbursement rate to maximize...

The purpose of this report is to evaluate the usefulness of the California Urban Futures (CUF) Model for analyzing realistic land use policy and planning alternatives at the sub-regional or county level. Following previous meetings of the ABAG Regional Planning Committee and consultations with...

Replaced with revised version of paper 07/29/10.