This study investigates the strategic effect of return policies in a dual-channel supply chain, in which a manufacturer can sell products directly to end customers and indirectly via an independent retailer. The manufacturer decides whether to implement a return policy in either the direct or...

On-line portfolio selection is an important and challenging question in computational finance and attracts increasing attention in the machine learning and data mining fields. Previously an on-line portfolio selection strategy called On-Line Moving Average Reversion (OLMAR) (Li et al., 2012)...

Portfolio selection has attracted increasing attention in machine learning and AI communities recently. Portfolio selection using on-line learning method has been extensively investigated previously. Literature about portfolio selection using recurrent reinforcement learning (RRL) is relatively...

The central counterparties dominating the market for the clearing of over-the-counter interest rate and credit derivatives are globally systemic. Employing methodologies similar to the calculation of banks’ capital requirements against trading book exposures, this paper assesses the...

Healthcare in the United States is the most expensive in the world, with real per capita spending growth averaging 4 percent since 1980. This paper examines the role of market power of U.S. healthcare providers and pharmaceutical companies. It finds that markups (the ability to charge prices...