We propose an inverse optimization based methodology to determine market structure from commodity and transportation prices. The methods are appropriate for locational marginal price based electricity markets where prices are shadow prices in the centralized optimization used to clear the...

Problem definition: Geographical mismatch between demand for care and availability of healthcare resources has been a major challenge during the COVID-19 pandemic. As such, inter-hospital patient transfers have emerged as a key aspect of the pandemic response in many countries. We propose and...

The widespread hype of blockchain technology over the past decade or so has sparked a wave of interest in ‘tokenisation’. Borrowing an expression from data security in which sensitive information such as credit card details were tokenised through substitution with non-sensitive information,...

In Jones v Persons Unknown [2022] EWHC 2543 (Comm), Nigel Cooper QC handed down the first final judgment on a claim to recover cryptoassets following a scam. While both the result and the reasoning may seem straightforward at first glance, a deeper analysis of the judgment reveals a concealed...

One of the selling points of cryptoassets has been the ability to subject them to so-called ‘smart contracts’ embedded upon blockchains; yet, despite numerous common law decisions accepting cryptoassets as property, until Janesh s/o Rajkumar v Unknown Person (“CHEFPIERRE”) [2022] SGHC...

The results in this paper address the question of how to evaluate and implement optimal price-lead time menus for congested service providers when market knowledge is limited. We formulate the economic assignment problem for the allocation of lead-times to customers with two-dimensional types,...