Recently, public and private providers within two-tier healthcare markets have engaged in a fierce competition for patients, which is significantly influenced by patients' multifaceted sensitivities to delays and payments, particularly when patients' potential balking is considered. However,...

This article shows how the endogenous human capital affects the labor market equilibrium when jobs provided by firms can be either unskilled or skilled and workers differ in their education level which can be either low-educated or high-educated. We develop an equilibrium search model in which...

This article shows how the endogenous human capital affects the labor market equilibrium when jobs provided by firms can be either unskilled or skilled and workers differ in their education level which can be either low-educated or high-educated. We develop an equilibrium search model in which...

In view of the facts that firms can sell their products on either cash or credit, and they may either meet all buyers' demand or only parts of that by setting an inventory limitation, four selling strategies are investigated in this paper: (i) cash sale without inventory limitation, (ii) cash...

We study a two-tier supply chain where a manufacturer faces a retailer privileged with private information about both the forecast signal and its accuracy from contracting before and after the retailer's forecast two aspects. To better understand the impact of these two types of asymmetric...

The success of reverse referral service, whereby a city hospital transfers patients finishing operations to a community one for follow-up treatment, generally depends on the collaboration of these two levels of hospitals. Unfortunately, the free-riding effect in such collaboration may lead to an...