An investor with constant relative risk aversion trades a safe and several risky assets with constant investment opportunities. For a small fixed transaction cost, levied on each trade regardless of its size, we explicitly determine the leading-order corrections to the frictionless value...

This article presents a straightforward production/inventory model that can capture the trade-offs among average inventory, production capacity and customer service levels in a semi-process industry setting. The model is based on well-known approximations from queuing literature, and it supports...