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This paper investigates pricing and collection effort decisions under the different channel structure. In our model, we consider the collection effort impacts both remanufacturer's collection quantity and market demand. We build four game models and give the corresponding equilibrium decisions. Through comparing these equilibrium results, we find that the manufacturer (remanufacturer)'s profit is...
The substituting procurement financing mode solves the difficult financing problems caused by the small and medium-sized enterprises' funding constraints, but it also has the problems of efficiency loss. Based on the supply chain constituted by a third party logistics (3PL) company and one retailer in this paper, we analyze and prove the efficiency of introducing the option contract into the substituting...
In order to explain the reason of the high underpricing rate of IPO and to judge whether there exists IPO underpricing, combined with China's specific policy system, this paper classified the IPO first-day underpricing or discount and constructed a classifier by using the decision tree modeling under the multiple influence factors. The numbers listed in this article refer to the data of initial public...
B2C e-commerce enterprises offer many the different kinds but the same variety items are often susceptible to periods of inventory mismatches where best-selling items may face shortages while poor-selling items have excess inventories. Because of capacity constraints, it is a problem that how to sell those poor-selling items quickly and purchase more best-selling items for maximize revenue. In the...
Based on the listed company Enterprise merger and acquisition (M&A) cases of China in 1994~2014, this paper examines the Income tax's influence on M&A transactions by empirical method. Our empirical tests have two perspectives, macro and micro. We find that in macro aspect, income tax rates have negative impact on M&A scale. In micro aspect, the rate of the acquired party has positive...
With the deterioration of environment, the government and the companies which have strong consciousness of environmental protection make sure their own emissions reduction targets to reduce the emissions of CO2. In addition, the government also introduced all kinds of subsidy policies to encourage the industry to reduce the emissions of CO2. For companies, they often tend to cooperate with their upstream...
The significance of remanufacturing used products has been widely recognized in literatures and in practice. In this paper, we put forward the idea of introducing Radio Frequency Identification technology (RFID for short) into the recycling activities of waste products, and assume that RFID would contribute to save recycling cost. Taking into account such elements as RFID technical level and the RFID...
Distributed energy (DG) resources are very common in today's power networks. Penetration of DG resources has many impacts on the network and the consumers. Many researchers have studied these impacts. Most of these studies involve issues such as stability, security and other technical items, while very few studies discussed electricity retail market. Many consumers install photovoltaic cells (PV),...
During the summer of 2015 the transmission system operator in Poland was forced to introduce limitations on electricity consumption to important industrial and commercial customers. In absence of sufficient generation reserve in power system this paper undertakes an analysis of the implementation of demand response program based on critical peak pricing for residential customers in a research of the...
Indonesia had 80 million netizen, but the spending of consumer goods companies for digital advertising media such as the one provided by Google, Youtube, Yahoo, and U-Ad was very low, only about 1% from total advertising spending. Especially for total spending of companies in U-Ad, a digital advertising media provided by Telkom Indonesia, was remain the lowest among those digital media advertising...
Engineering Design is the driving force in many engineering programs with little emphases on the other considerations such as feasibility, financial, environmental, social, and regulatory aspects despite the major push by ABET. This course in Engineering Practice focuses on addressing the above concerns in a one credit course that is required of all juniors in a team setting. The paper explains the...
In order to adapt the power grid to today's level of electricity consumption, growing investments are made in a smart power grid. The rising power demand curve can be restrained by a smart implementation of the new electrical power grid. The smart grid brings out an additional layer that will interconnect and manage all the generation, transmission and distribution sectors of the power grid. In this...
How can firms price their products and services, as their ecosystems get smarter? In order to answer this question, this paper provides a stylized model and its expansion to characterize industries that have become smarter and connected through the introduction of smart devices, a.k.a. the Internet of Things. First, we propose a basic model for a duopolistic multi-sided market with externality effects...
Consumer ratings in online marketplaces not only help consumers learn about the quality of sellers' products and services, but also shape the competition among those sellers. Some sellers, taking the advantage of anonymity of contributing consumers, forge consumer reviews to boost their own ratings. This research uses a game theoretical model to explore the incentive mechanism of the manipulation...
Demand response (DR) has been getting widespread attention for smart grids to manage the required power demand with the available power supply resources. The recent integration of information and communication technology (ICT) systems has presented new opportunities for residential load scheduling systems to improve energy consumption by shifting or curtailing the demand required with respect to price...
The costs incurred by cloud providers towards operating their data centers are often determined in large part by their peak demands. The pricing schemes currently used by cloud providers to recoup these costs from their tenants, however, do not distinguish tenants based on their contributions to the cloud's overall peak demand. Using the concrete example of peak-based pricing as employed by many electric...
Currently, the electricity demand is exponentially increasing due to the population growth. Therefore, the demand side management (DSM) is becoming unavoidable especially with the increasing use of renewable energy sources. One of the most known tactics of DSM is the use pricing strategies to threaten users to schedule their loads by controlling their own appliances. In this paper, a new model of...
Demand Response (DR) is considered an effective mechanism by utilities worldwide to address demand supply mismatch and reduce energy consumption, peak load and emissions. Consumer participation is central to realize the full potential offered by DR programs. The communication between a utility company and consumers participating in DR is through DR messages. However, despite the importance of DR messages...
Demand response (DR) emerges as one of the cheapest and greenest solutions to match supply and demand in the electricity sector. While DR has been focused on large and industrial consumers, pervasive implementation (by including residential consumers) is needed to maximize its potential. This paper presents theoretical analysis of pervasive, incentive-based DR from the economics perspective. Our analysis...
In smart grid, demand response is a viable approach to motivate users towards shifting the demand during the peak load periods. Each user can also benefit by reducing its total cost. In most of the existing studies, the demand response program is modeled as a one-shot game among myopic users, who aim to minimize their cost in one period of time. In this paper, we show that the Nash equilibrium (NE)...
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