Interface of Finance, Operations and Risk Management (iFORM) is a relatively new research area dealing with timely, complex and boundary-spanning issues in a variety of settings from start-ups to global enterprises. iFORM research addresses ways to better integrate physical, financial, and...

Using a panel of Credit Default Swap (CDS) spreads and supply chain links, we observe that both favorable and unfavorable credit shocks propagate through supply chains in the CDS market. Particularly, the three-day cumulative abnormal CDS spread change (CASC) is 63 basis points for firms whose...

We compare a Blockchain-based Supply Chain Finance system with traditional bank-based Supply Chain Finance solutions, using a three-tier supply chain model. Our model features financing frictions due to moral hazard with respect to product quality and dynamic updates of collateral-asset-value...

Credit provides a means for uninsured households and businesses to manage disaster losses, but access to credit may be tenuous after severe events. Using lender fixed effects models, we examine how natural disasters affect the amount of credit supplied by community lenders in developing and...

Problem Definition: Governments have adopted various subsidy policies to promote investment in renewable energy sources, such as rooftop solar panels. The German government uses a feed-in-tariff policy that provides a guaranteed stream of payments for each unit of electricity generated by a...

This paper describes the Blockchain-Enabled Token Trading Game for Supply Chain Management, a web-based supply chain simulation. The game uses blockchain technology’s concepts to create virtual markets for supplier capacity trading among retailers, where participants take on the role of a...

We study a supply chain distribution system (comprising a supplier and multiple retailers) and investigate experimentally how the trading by retailers of digital claims (tokens) on the supplier's capacity affects supply-demand mismatches. Creating markets for such tokens relies on advances in...