This note develops a method of recovering individual preferences, and of obtaining money-metricindividual welfare comparisons, from demand functions generated by Cournot-Nash equilibria ingames with public goods.

Volume flexibility is an important but not very well understood concept that allows a firmto leverage its scarce resources for optimal utilization with upswings and downswings inbusiness. Our research using 3 different research methods suggests that the key problemsin developing a volume...

This paper compares the commonly-used periodic-review, replenishment interval, order-up-to (R, T) policy to the continuous review, reorder point, order quantity, (Q, r) model. [...]

Vorliegendes Arbeitspapier untersucht potentielle Nachfragefaktoren auf dem chinesischen Lebensversicherungsmarkt.

Die Bewertung von Optionen besitzt im Rahmen der modernen Financezentrale Bedeutung, und dies sowohl aus theoretischer als auch aus praktischer Sicht...

Das Kauf- und Entscheidungsverhalten der Konsumenten kann mit konventionellen Modellen desRationalverhaltens nicht erklärt werden. In diesem Beitrag wird aufgezeigt, wie Leitmotive undPersönlichkeitsmerkmale, aber besonders auch der jeweilige Kontext das sehr unterschiedliche undunbewusste...

This report summarises the key issues that arose and pulls together the actions proposed byleading experts at different levels, from the poorest neighbourhoods up to central government.There was no proposed or agreed single line of action; rather there were multiple strands ofthinking that,...

Increasing the shares of Renewable Energy Sources (RES) and Distributed EnergyResources (DER) is one of the most important levers in many countries to cope withthe environmental, political, and economic challenges of future energy supply. Theunderlying question of this thesis is whether...

We present a stochastic version of the single-level, multi-product dynamic lotsizingproblem subject to a capacity constraint. A production schedule has tobe determined for random demand so that expected costs are minimized and aconstraint based on a new backlog-oriented Sigma-service-level...