Advance selling through pre-orders is a strategy to transfer inventory risk from a retailer to consumers. A newsvendor retailer can have three strategies to choose from: no advance selling allowed (NAS), moderate advance selling with a moderate discount for pre-orders (MAS), and deep advance...

Car sharing is promoted as a prominent alternative to private cars, and is therefore seemed as a sustainable innovation for urban mobility. Many policy makers introduced various incentives to facilitate the development of car sharing services as a complement to other public policies to contain...