Consider a public healthcare system consisting of a hospital, a mobile clinic (MC), and a population of potential patients. The government is concerned about the system’s healthcare spending and the population’s health outcomes. It needs to decide whether and how to provide the MC service to...

Stockpiling inventory is an essential strategy for building supply chain resilience. It enables firms to continue operating while finding a solution to an unexpected event that causes a supply disruption or demand surge. While extremely valuable when actually deployed, stockpiles incur large...

We consider a capacity provider and a group of independent buyers who partner to share a scarce but expensive-to-build capacity over a finite horizon under privately informed demand conditions. At the beginning of the time horizon, the capacity provider must invest in building capacity; all...

We use a social network analysis to examine the role of various types of interactions among the faculty of an American engineering school, ranging from mere awareness to full coauthorship, on academic research productivity (measured by weighted publication rates) and impact (measured by weighted...

Problem definition: We consider an online retailer selling multiple products to multiple zones over a single period. The retailer orders the products from a single supplier and stores them at multiple warehouses. At the start of the selling period, the retailer determines the order quantities of...

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...

In this paper, I study the competition of platforms which offer differentiated products à la Hotelling in the presence of network effects when the location choices are endogenous. I mainly find that undermill pricing policy and unbalanced competition, a tendency of agglomeration emerges in...

Despite the pervasive use of pictorial brand logos, little is known about their effects on product value perceptions, expected product experience and willingness to pay premium. This study addressed the above-mentioned gap by building upon dual coding, anthropomorphism and biophilia theories to...

Natural anthocyanins are considered favorable indicators for new sensing materials because of their wide pH color range. In this study, a smart visual indicator film was developed by introducing black wolfberry (BW) anthocyanins to a solid matrix composed of polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) and methyl...

Using overnight volatility as the proxy for overnight information, this paper models future Chinese stock market realized range-based volatility (RRV) within a class of heterogeneous autoregressive models augmented by this proxy. We confirm the important role of overnight information in...