Digital extortion has emerged as a significant threat to organizations that rely on information technologies for their operations. Using human-subject experimentation, we study the effectiveness of message appeals in encouraging defenders to adopt two mitigation strategies, investment in...

The purpose of this report is to evaluate the usefulness of the California Urban Futures (CUF) Model for analyzing realistic land use policy and planning alternatives at the sub-regional or county level. Following previous meetings of the ABAG Regional Planning Committee and consultations with...

Daily deal sites like Groupon and LivingSocial have been growing at an impressive rate. These sites provide merchants a new channel to advertise. A question is that if daily deals can help a merchant to signal its good quality. To answer this question, we present a signaling model, in which the...

This paper examines the impact of Fee-for-Service and Bundled Payment reimbursement schemes on the social welfare, the patient revisit rate, and the patient waiting time in a three-tiered public healthcare system comprising: (a) a public funder who decides on the reimbursement rate to maximize...

Negotiation, both an art and a science, is important in business and in personal life. To negotiate intelligently, we need a strategy to help identify when, for what, and how we should negotiate. The availability of technology has streamlined the information-gathering process necessary for...

When retailers make product assortment changes by eliminating certain stockkeeping units (SKUs), how does this affect sales of individual brands? This is the main question the authors address in this article. Using data from an online retailer that implemented a permanent systemwide SKU...

Deceptive counterfeits differ from non-deceptive ones in that they are packaged and sold as authentic brand name products so that consumers may buy counterfeits unknowingly. When a distribution channel, referred to as the general channel, has been penetrated with deceptive counterfeits, a brand...