In the presence of litigation facing suppliers, the supply-chain relationship is at risk. Suppliers with principal customers (dependent suppliers) have a higher concentration of sales to customers, and they are more at risk relative to suppliers without principal customers (non-dependent...

We study the dividend optimization problem for a company where surplus in the absence of dividend payments follows a Cramér-Lundberg process compounded by constant force of interest. The company controls the times and amounts of dividend payments subject to reserve constraints that dividends...

We consider the optimal dividend distribution problem of a financial corporation whose surplus is modeled by a general diffusion process with both the drift and the diffusion coefficients depending on the external economic regime as well as the surplus itself through general functions. The aim...