Willingness to pay (WTP) is known to be lower for remanufactured products than for comparable new products. Normative work to date has assumed that a consumer's WTP for a remanufactured product is a fraction, called discount factor, of the consumer's WTP for a corresponding new product, and that...

In this paper, we model a firm that can reduce its carbon footprint in the presence of a segment of eco-conscious consumers, who consider the product's carbon footprint when making purchasing decisions. The firm can reduce its controllable emissions, at increased fixed and variable costs, and it...

Chapter 8: Market fo r Remanufactured Products: Empirical FindingsPart III: Industry Characteristics and Case Studies; Chapter 9: Examples of Existing Profitable Practices in Product Take-Back and Recovery; Chapter 10: Reuse and Recycling in the Motion Picture Industry; Chapter 11: Reverse...

We study the competition between two remanufacturers in the acquisition of used products and the sales of remanufactured products. One firm has a market advantage; we consider two separate cases where either firm could have an acquisition advantage. The problem is formulated as a simultaneous...