French Abstract: Politique de divulgation dans des concours à la Tullock quand l'entrée est stochastique et asymétrique. On examine comment une politique de divulgation ou non du nombre des participants à un concours peut être optimisée pour donner des incitations aux participants quand...

Observing that people often use categorization to simplify choice problems and follow some search order to make a choice, we develop and axiomatize a stochastic choice model in which the decision maker first categorizes alternatives in a menu into disjoint categories, then search over categories...

This research constructs a simple dynamic model to illustrate the micro-mechanism of industrial upgrading along the global value chains. Our model demonstrates the following results. (1) Firms in the value chains manage to upgrade from downstream to upstream stages by acquiring higher...

We consider a firm's sourcing problem from one reliable supplier and one unreliable supplier in two price setting scenarios. In the committed pricing scenario, the firm makes the pricing decision before the supply uncertainty is resolved. In the responsive pricing scenario, the firm's pricing...

Bandit products have captured significant market shares in China and have started to expand throughout the world. A striking feature of supply chains for bandit products is decentralization, where the upstream firm determines the product quality and the downstream firms compete on prices. We...

This paper constructs a simple model to reveal the trade-off between decentralized and centralized governance structure of large state-owned enterprises (SOEs) in China. Our model shows that the delegation of decision making authority to SOE managers would enhance their initiative in terms of...

The provision of essential supplies is a key service provided by retailers when demand spikes due to consumer stockpiling during environmental emergencies. Moreover, it is important for retailers to quickly recover from these events by replenishing the stock of essential supplies to meet the...

This paper considers the non-monotonic effect of the partial privatization campaign on the capital allocation distortion of large SOEs in China by using the Chinese firm-level panel data. We construct a theoretical model to show that the rise in the degree of partial privatization has the...

Several weakened substitutability conditions have been proved to be sufficient for stability in many-to-one matching with contracts and to be vital for understanding real-life applications. We examine the roles of these weakened conditions in many-to-many matching with contracts, in particular,...

This note corrects a result of Abdulkadiroglu et al. (2011). Assuming incomplete information, common ordinal preferences, and no school priorities in the school choice model, Abdulkadiroglu et al. (2011) prove that naive students benefit from the presence of sophisticated students. They state in...