This paper considers a world in which pension funds may default, the cost of the associated risk of default is not borne fully by the sponsoring corporation, and there are differential tax effects. The focus is on ways in which the wealth of the shareholders of a corporation sponsoring a pension...

Brownian networks are a class of linear stochastic control systems that arise as heavy traffic approximations in queueing theory. Such Brownian system models have been used to approximate problems of dynamic routing, dynamic sequencing and dynamic input control for queueing networks. A number of...

We consider a firm that can use one of several costly learning modes to dynamically reduce uncertainty about the unknown value of a project. Each learning mode incurs cost at a particular rate and provides information of a particular quality. In addition to dynamic decisions about its learning...

Consider a firm that markets multiple products, each manufactured using several resources representing various types of capital and labor, and a linear production technology. The firm faces uncertain product demand and has the option to dynamically readjust its resource investment levels,...

Brownian networks are a class of linear stochastic control systems that arise as heavy traffic approximations in queuing theory. Such Brownian system models have been used to approximate problems of dynamic routing, dynamic sequencing and dynamic input control for queuing networks. A number of...