This paper evaluates the joint impact of exclusive channels and revenue sharing on suppliers and retailers in a hybrid duopoly common retailer and exclusive channel model. The model bridges the gap in the literature on hybrid multichannel supply chains with bilateral complementary products and services with/without revenue sharing. The analysis indicates that, without revenue sharing, the suppl...

This study deals with the impact of channel strategy and channel format selection on the manufacturer’s, the retailer’s, the e-tailer’s, and the system-wide profits. We consider the problem of one manufacturer selling one product in the market through two competing channels: a physical channel (retailer) and an internet channel (e-tailer). We assume the manufacturer uses two commonly applied co...

This paper analyses the problem of sub-national revenue mobilization in Peru and proposes several policy reforms to improve collection performance while maintaining a sound revenue structure. We analyze the current revenues of regional and municipal governments and identify the main priorities of reform. Among the most important problems are the acute inequalities and inefficiencies associated ...

Greenhouse gas emissions have serious impacts on the natural environment. Therefore, the restrictions imposed on carbon emission force enterprises to take carbon emission into consideration when making production decisions. In this paper, in the context of allowing emission trading and investment of emission reduction technology, models were presented for a two-stage supply chain to analyze the...

35 National Tax Journal Vol. LXI, No. 1 March 2008 Abstract The proliferation of residential private governments, in the form of homeowners’ associations, to deliver public services coincided with a period in which cities faced signifi cant property tax limitations. Using panel data from California in the era of Proposition 13, I test whether cities that were more tax constrained experienced hi...

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 ...

The members of a chain always try to find new ways in order to raise their profit. Hence we intend to study two different scenarios in a single item two-echelon green supply chain including two manufacturers and one retailer to study the effects of two effective contracts on members’ profit. Two scenarios are discussed and in first one, first manufacturer proposes quantity discount contract to ...

Considering the impact of products’ eco-friendly level on demand, a two-stage closed-loop supply chain composed by a single manufacturer and a single retailer is constructed. Under both decentralized and centralized decision-making models, the paper deeply researches into the difference of supply chain system in economic benefits, environmental protection and social benefits, and a revenue shar...

the analyze of petroleum contracts demonstrate that in respect to the intensity of the cooperation between the state company and oil companies, we could find the different evaluative categories of the contracts on upstream oil industry.historically, the first generation of the petroleum contracts was the concession agreement in which the transferring of ownership was the base. the license agree...