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An Empirical Study on Intertemporal Decision Making Under Risk
This study compares time preference in the cases of certainty and risk. We analyze both matching and choice behavior. We find that violations of the stationarity axiom are restricted to matching be...
Firm Asymmetries and Sequential R&D
We incorporate strategic considerations into the analysis of a problem that has hitherto been treated in a decision theoretic fashion: the allocation of scarce R&D resources when R&D proceeds in st...
Integrating Routing and Inventory Decisions in One-Warehouse Multiretailer Multiproduct Distribution Systems
We consider distribution systems with a central warehouse and many retailers that stock a number of different products. Deterministic demand occurs at the retailers for each product. The warehouse ...
Optimal Operating Policies in the Presence of Exchange Rate Variability
We study the structure of the optimal policies for a firm operating plants in different countries. The relative costs of production between the plants are assumed to vary over time due to economic ...
Estimation Risk in Portfolio Selection
Konno and Yamazaki Konno, H., K. Yamazaki. 1992. Mean-absolute deviation portfolio optimization model and its applications to Tokyo stock market. Management Sci.39 519-531. propose the mean absolut...
Managing a Distribution Channel Under Asymmetric Information with Performance Requirements
In this paper we study how performance requirements may improve the working of a distribution channel when the retailer is better informed about demand conditions than the manufacturer. Performance...
Making a Case for Robust Optimization Models
Robust optimization searches for recommendations that are relatively immune to anticipated uncertainty in the problem parameters. Stochasticities are addressed via a set of discrete scenarios. This...
Information Technology Impact on Process Output and Quality
Our work represents one of the first attempts to assess the impact of IT information technology on both process output and quality. We examine the optical character recognition and barcode sorting ...
Effects of Color as an Executional Cue in Advertising
In designing print ads, one of the decisions the advertiser must make is which colors to use as executional cues in the ad. Typically, color decisions are based on intuition and anecdotal evidence....