The paper considers a production/distribution system that involves one vendor and multiple buyers. The buyers belong to an entity that is operationally more cost efficient than the vendor. We study two settings that have been widely applied in practice: vendor-managed inventory (VMI) and...

In distribution systems, excess stocks can be shared across different locations to fulfill unsatisfied demand. This raises many operations problems including inventory policies, transportation, partner selection and contracts. This paper reviews the up-to-date literature in inventory...

Behavioral studies have consistently reported the pull-to-center (PTC) effect observed in laboratory studies of the newsvendor problem. We examine whether this and some other observed effects can be reconciled under the general framework of prospect theory without special assumption on reference...

Listing by companies from one country on the stock market of another country is a device often used both to raise capital in, and to increase bonding with, the target country. This book examines the listing by Chinese companies on the Hong Kong stock market. It discusses the extent of the...

This paper studies estimation in linear dynamic panel data models with multiple interactive effects when both N and T are large. We derive the bias term in an order p dynamic panel data model and the limiting distribution of the estimator. Simulation results show good finite sample properties of...