The use of electronic money transfer through cellular networks ("mobile money") is rapidly increasing in the developing world. The resulting electronic currency ecosystem could improve the lives of the estimated 2 billion people who live on less than $2 a day by facilitating more secure,...

Carbon regulation is intended to reduce global emissions, but there is growing concern that such regulation may simply shift production to unregulated regions, potentially increasing overall carbon emissions in the process. Carbon tariffs have emerged as a possible mechanism to address this...

We study the impact of emissions tax and emissions cap-and-trade regulation on a firm's technology choice and capacity decisions. We show that emissions price uncertainty under cap-and-trade results in greater expected profit than a constant emissions price under an emissions tax, which...

Problem definition: Firms providing products and services to low income Base of the Pyramid (BOP) customers are increasingly utilizing independent contractor agents rather than employees in their distribution models. We empirically investigate the best way to help agents perform...

It has been demonstrated that innovative business models designed to serve the population at the "base of the pyramid" are an effective means to create employment and improve quality of life. However, the effect that various levels of poverty have on the viability of these business models is not...

In an experimental newsvendor setting we investigate three phenomena: Level behavior ― the decision-maker's average ordering tendency; adjustment behavior ― the tendency to adjust period-to-period order quantities; and observation bias ― the tendency to let the degree of demand feedback...