In this dissertation, we consider an inventory sharing and rationing problem in continuous-review, infinite-horizon, distribution networks. Unlike previous literature on inventory sharing, we model inventory sharing as a multiple demand classes problem in which each dealer faces two classes of...

In this dissertation, two research topics are investigated: the demand information asymmetry in a decentralized inventory sharing supply chain and the quality-based supplier selection. For the first research topic, previous literature on inventory sharing has assumed that retailers' demand...

We examine shareholders' wealth effects (both in the short- and the long-run) of UK frequent bidders acquiring public, private, and/or subsidiary targets with alternative methods of payment between 1987 and 2004. We find that, in the short-run, bidders break even when acquiring public targets...