Online platforms, marketplaces and retailers typically use ranking algorithms to determine the order in which hundreds or thousands of choices are presented to consumers. While ranking algorithms may aid consumer choice, there are concerns they may also lead to socially undesirable outcomes. In...

In freight transportation, decisions regarding the choice of transport mode (or chains of modes) and shipment size are closely linked. Building on this basic insight, in this paper we estimate and review various joint econometric models using the Swedish National Commodity Flow surveys. Robust...

In Operations Research, the equipment replacement process is usually modeled in discrete time. The optimal replacement strategies are found from discrete (or integer) programming problems, well known for their analytic and computational complexity. An alternative approach is represented by...