Car sharing is promoted as a prominent alternative to private cars, and is therefore seemed as a sustainable innovation for urban mobility. Many policy makers introduced various incentives to facilitate the development of car sharing services as a complement to other public policies to contain...

Our paper studies the role of the performance-based incentives in managing the effects of consolidation in healthcare markets. We consider a transition between the ``pre-merger'' market configuration where a payer manages a system with two competing hospitals and one of the two ``consolidated''...

With the development of the Internet and E-commerce, retailers often offer pre-orders for new to-be-released products. To encourage pre-orders, retailers such as Amazon offer pre-order price guarantee (PG). That is, if the product price drops before or on the release date, pre-order consumers...

We analyze a finite horizon, single product, periodic review model in which pricing and production/inventory decisions are made simultaneously. Demands in different periods are random variables that are independent of each other and their distributions depend on the product price. Pricing and...

We analyze an infinite horizon, single product, periodic review model in which pricing and production/inventory decisions are made simultaneously. Demands in different periods are identically distributed random variables that are independent of each other and their distributions depend on the...

Traditional inventory models focus on risk-neutral decision makers, i.e., characterizing replenishment strategies that maximize expected total profit, or equivalently, minimize expected total cost over a planning horizon. In this paper, we propose a framework for incorporating risk aversion in...

Traditional inventory models focus on effective replenishment strategies and typically assume that a commodity's price is exogenously determined. In recent years, however, a number of industries have used innovative pricing strategies to manage their inventory effectively. These developments...

This dissertation studies the competition between two e-auction marketplaces using computer simulations. The simulation answers questions of whether the evolution of the market converges to market duopoly or monopoly? Moreover, what is the influence of the listing fee on the evolution of the...

The greening of the Earth over the last decades is predominantly indicated by the enhancements of leaf area index (LAI). Quantifying the relative contribution of multiple determinants, especially changes in climate and in land management changes (LMC), remains an arduous challenge. To solve this...