Trade credit insurance (TCI) is a risk management tool commonly used by suppliers to guarantee against payment default by credit buyers. TCI contracts can be either cancelable (the insurer has the discretion to cancel this guarantee during the insured period) or non-cancelable (the terms cannot...

Over the last decade, trade credit has been subject to increasing government regulation in many countries. While such policies are intended to improve suppliers' financial sustainability, they may negatively affect supply chain performance by limiting the positive operational roles of trade...

This paper examines the impact of the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP) on hospitals' admission decisions. HRRP provides incentives for hospitals to reduce readmissions by imposing penalties to hospitals that exhibited higher than average 30-day risk-adjusted readmission rates....

At the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, hospitals were in dire need of data-driven analytics to provide support for critical, expensive, and challenging decisions. Yet, the majority of analytics being developed were targeted toward state- and national-level policy decisions, with little...

In the U.S., physicians are increasingly integrating horizontally as well as vertically, while payment models are simultaneously transitioning away from fee-for-service towards alternative payment models (APM). While both are known to alter providers' financial incentives and affect cost and...