Although assortment optimization has been extensively studied, not much is known about how it is affected by advertising. In this paper, we address this gap by considering a novel joint advertising and assortment optimization problem. To capture the effect of advertising in the context of...

SMEs are drivers of economic growth and job creation in developing countries. It is paramount to determine the factors that hinder their growth. This paper uses the Enterprise Survey from the World Bank which covers data from 119 developing countries to investigate the biggest obstacles SMEs are...

A global renminbi needs to be backed by a large, deep and liquid renminbi bond market with a world-class Chinese government bond (CGB) market as its core. China’s CGB market is the seventh largest in the world while sitting alongside a huge but non-tradable and captive central bank liability...