In my dissertation, I aim to understand incentives in U.S. healthcare operations based on my collaboration with various health organizations. In my first essay, I investigate the underlying operational and economic drives behind physicians’ test-ordering behavior in an outpatient setting, motivated by a collaborative study with University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) Eye Center. I model ...

A study was conducted between May 2013 and August 2014 in three provinces of Vietnam to investigate financial impacts of swine diseases in pig holdings in 2010-2013. The aim of the study was to quantify the costs of swine diseases at producer level in order to understand swine disease priority for monitoring at local level. Financial impacts of porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome (PRR...

In the study of McFarlane et al1 a community outreach program was set up to reduce the transition to psychosis in subjects at increased risk. A broad range of subjects (aged 15–25) was included, from low risk to frank psychosis. The design was not randomized on the basis of ethical considerations. Treatment consisted of familyaided assertive community treatment (FACT) and medication in the form...

In fiscal year 2007, Georgia collected $15.4 billion in state and local current charges and miscellaneous revenue, which was 32 percent of Georgia state and local own source revenue. State and local current charges and miscellaneous revenue is a census revenue category made up of many subcategories. For instance, current charges include public college tuition and fees, highway tolls, and revenu...

This paper assesses the impact of sharing customers’ channel preference information on pricing and performance in a dual channel supply chain, where the supplier opens a direct channel and a traditional retailer owns a retail channel. Both the supplier and the retailer perform their forecasting demands based on the ratio of consumers’ preferences in the direct channel when we consider the chara...

Developing countries have embarked on the promotion of “ICT access for all” through subsidized Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), especially in underserviced areas of such countries. The main aim of the “ICT access for all” is to extend the communication services to the large areas of underserviced regions through subsidized communication services. In some instances, subsidies m...

We set up a two level supply chain model which consists of one manufacturer and two retailers in this paper. Necessities as the main research object, we develop the nonlinear demand function of products which is more related to the reality. In order to increase the performance of whole supply chain in the decentralized decision, we introduce revenue sharing mechanism in this paper. Through nume...

Motivated by the influenza vaccine industry, we study a supply chain contracting problem under the presence of uncertainties that are related to product design, delivery, and demand, respectively. The supply chain consists of a manufacturer and a retailer, where the retailer places an order before the flu season starts and the manufacturer decides on when to produce the products. Because produc...

U a consignment contract with revenue sharing, a supplier decides on the retail price and delivery quantity for his product, and retains ownership of the goods; for each item sold, the retailer deducts a percentage from the selling price and remits the balance to the supplier. In this paper we show that, under such a contract, both the overall channel performance and the performance of individu...

T coordination of supply chains by means of contracting mechanisms has been extensively explored theoretically but not tested empirically. We investigate the performance of three commonly studied supply chain contracting mechanisms: the wholesale price contract, the buyback contract, and the revenue-sharing contract. The simplified setting we consider utilizes a two-echelon supply chain in whic...