We present an inventory management solution for a non-stationary capacitated multi-echelon distribution network involving thousands of products. Assuming backlogged sales, we revisit and leverage the seminal multi-echelon inventory management results in the literature to establish the structural...

Risk-based asset allocation models have received considerable attention in recent years. This increased popularity is due in part to the difficulty in estimating expected returns as well as the financial crisis of 2008 which has helped reinforce the key role of risk in asset allocation. In this...

This study develops a data-driven group variable selection method for data envelopment analysis (DEA), a non-parametric linear programming approach to the estimation of production frontiers. The proposed method extends the group Lasso (least absolute shrinkage and selection operator) designed...