This paper addresses the integrated planning/scheduling of chemical supply chains (SC) with multi-product, multi-echelon distribution networks taking into account financial management issues and suggests a novel approach for enterprise wide management. In order to tackle this problem, it is derived a mathematical formulation combining a scheduling/planning model with a cash flow and budgeting f...

Inventory models in which the demand rate dependents on the stock- dependent are based on the common real- life observation that greater product availability tends to stimulate more sales. In this study we develop an inventory model to determine an optimal ordering policy for quantity dependent demand rate and time dependent holding cost items with delay in payments permitted by the supplier un...

In this thesis, I provide new insights in the field of asset pricing and portfolio optimization by investigating the role of information and factor decompositions. In particular, I investigate the effect of disentangling specific risk factors as used in the earlier asset pricing and portfolio allocation literature into their different sub-components. In Chapter 2, I propose an extension to the ...

2 The Dedication, or Cash-Flow Matching (CFM) Model. 3 2.1 The Deterministic Case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 2.1.1 Short-term reinvesting and borrowing . . . . . . . . . 5 2.1.2 Tradeability Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 2.1.3 Transactions costs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 2.1.4 Rebalancing an existing portfolio . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 2.1.5 Tim...

This paper tests for the importance of cash flow on investment in fixed capital and R&D using firm-level panel data in two countries between 1985 and 1994. For German firms, cash flow is not informative in simple econometric models of fixed investment or R&D. In identical specifications for British firms, cash flow is informative about investment, although not about the level of R&D spending co...

In this study, we apply network flow models with gains and losses to deal with the cash flow management problem of a typical Brazilian company which produces frozen concentrated orange juice. The aim is to maximize the cash return of the financial resources at the end of a multi-period and finite planning horizon. Two real-life situations are analyzed: in the first, the network flow model in Go...