Monologisation as a Quoting Practice

A Simple, Robust Leadtime-Quoting Policy

W e examine leadtime-quoting polices for minimizing average lead time subject to customer service constraints on fill rate, tardiness, or relative tardiness in simple systems with exponential and normal processing times. By studying the resulting safety leadtimes implied by each policy we gain insight into why some policies perform more robustly with respect to different measures of customer se...

Quoting "the environment:: Touchstones on Earth

Price Quoting Strategies of a Tier-Two Supplier

This paper studies the price-quoting strategies used by a tier-two supplier, whose tier-one customers compete for an OEM’s indivisible contract. At most one of the tier-two supplier’s quotes will ultimately result in downstream contracting and hence produce revenue for her. We characterize the tier-two supplier’s optimal price-quoting strategies and show that she will use one of two possible ty...

Empathy as a hermeneutic practice.

This essay will argue for the centrality of empathy in the doctor-patient relationship-as a core of ethically sound, responsible therapeutics. By "empathy," I intend an explicitly hermeneutic practice, informed by a reflexive understanding of patient and self. After providing an overview of the history of the concept of empathy in clinical medicine, I discuss current definitions and the use of ...

Effect of Price Quoting on Financial Assets Price

Stock options are usually sold in bundles of 100 units, and their price can be quoted either per unit or per bundle. In this paper, the effect of different methods of quoting financial asset prices on the subjective value of a contract was examined experimentally. In particular, we examined differences in subjects’ Willingness-To-Pay (WTP) and Willingness-ToAccept (WTA) for financial assets dep...