Express delivery is commonly recognized as one of the most critical and expensive operations for e-commerce. When selling products online, the e-retailer may invite the suppliers to be responsible for delivering products to customers, and the suppliers may respond by accepting or rejecting this...

This paper surveys the recent literature on the Japanese distribution system to consider two propositions: first, that the system is inefficient, and second that prices of imported products tend to be higher in Japan than in other markets. Most of the literature demonstrates that the system is...

While the Poisson distribution is a classical statistical model for count data, the distributional model hinges on the constraining property that its mean equal its variance. This text instead introduces the Conway-Maxwell-Poisson distribution and motivates its use in developing flexible...