With the rapid growth of the sharing economy, on-demand staffing platforms have emerged to help companies manage their temporary workforce. In this paper, we study how to maximize and distribute the benefits of an on-demand workforce in this new business context. We consider an on-demand...

Problem Definition: To manage supplier social responsibility (SR), some firms have adopted a self-assessment strategy whereby they ask suppliers to self-report SR capabilities. Self-reported information is difficult to verify and this leads to an important credibility question: can a buyer...

Problem Definition: We examine the impact of a selling firm's inventory decision in a model where the firm engages in consumer profiling and targeted pricing and consumers decide whether to hide their identity. Consumers who do not hide will be notified by an advertising email early in the...

What would the world have been if nuclear weapons have never been developed? Asked by Kenneth Waltz, this question leads us to think about the usage of counterfactuals in IR. Though we use a lot of counterfactuals in daily conversation, the method of counterfactual analysis did not get much...

In this paper, gold is investigated as a super- sovereign zero- coupon bond. A structural relationship between the gold and the observed yields on long maturity inflation indexed bonds is derived under the assumption that the gold price reflects the long run inflation level. This relationship...