We study the problem of routing heterogeneous jobs to heterogeneous servers, where the service rate depends both on the job type and the server type. We employ a math programming approach which is desirable since it can easily be embedded within larger planning problems. While convex objectives...

This study investigates whether users of 25 free retirement planning programs available on the internet are advised to annuitize, in situations where it clearly would be advisable to do so. Our main conclusion is that the programs generally do not advise it, which contributes to other reasons...

Increasing numbers of countries are using mandatory funded individual accounts to provide retirement. Sweden in 2000 instituted a mandatory funded individual account system that differs in a number of ways from earlier such systems. It incorporates features that reflect lessons learned from...