In this paper we study the integration of production, transportation and storage decisions in a multi plant-distribution center supply structure. Multiple plants produce one type of item, each of them with different production capacity and costs, and send finished goods to the distribution...

In this paper we study the integration of production, transportation and storage decisions in a multi plant-distribution center supply chain structure. Multiple plants produce one type of item, each of them with different production capacity and costs, and send finished goods to the distribution...

This paper presents a new class of valid inequalities for the single-item capacitated lotsizing problem with step-wise production costs (LS-SW). We first provide a survey of different optimization methods proposed to solve LS-SW. Then, flow cover and flow cover inequalities derived from the...

In this paper, we present a model of endogenous vertical integration and horizontal differentiation. Thereexists two output brands and two versions of the input. The only mean for output differentiation is the inputversion used in output production. Firms may choose to vertically integrate to...

We propose a new dynamic model for volatility and dependence in high dimensions, that allows for departuresfrom the normal distribution, both in the marginals and in the dependence. The dependence is modeled with adynamic canonical vine copula, which can be decomposed into a cascade of bivariate...

In a setting of R&D co-opetition we study, by using an all-pay auction approach, howcollaboration affects strategic decisions during a patent contest, and how the latter influences thepossible collaboration network structures the firms can hope to form. The all pay auctionapproach allows us to...

We study the impact of transfer pricing rules on sales prices, firms’ organizational structure, andconsumers’ utility within a two-country monopolistic competition model featuring source-basedprofit taxes that differ across countries. Firms can either become multinationals, i.e., they serve...

We define a two-variant model of product differentiation which, depending on the number of consumersprefering one variant to the other, provides equilibrium prices reflecting the natural valuation of thesevariants by the market....