Market engineering is the discipline of making markets work. It encompasses the use of legal frameworks, economic mechanisms, management science models, and information and communication technologies for the purposes of: (i) designing and constructing forums where goods and services can be bought and sold and (ii) providing services associated with buying and selling. Against this background, t...

The recent proliferation of cryptomarkets and the associated emergence of a sub-field of research on the anonymous web have outpaced the development of an ethical consensus regarding research methods and dissemination amongst scholars working in this unique online space. The peculiar characteristics of cryptomarket research, which often involve encryption, illegal activity, largescale data coll...

Introduced in the late eighties for margining certain accounts of brokers, the riskbased approach to margining portfolios with equity derivatives has yielded substan­ tially lower margin requirements in comparison with the strategy-based approach that has been used for margining customer accounts for more than four decades. For this reason, after the approvals of the pilot program on July 14, 2...

The value of delayed differentiation (aka postponement) for a monopolist has been extensively studied in the Operations literature. We analyze the case of (imperfectly) competitive markets with demand uncertainty, wherein the choice of supply chain configuration (early/delayed differentiation) is endogenous to the competing firms. We characterize firms’ choices in equilibrium and analyze the ef...

The problem of the connection between amount training specialists and their employment in field economic activity at current stage development is becoming quite necessary for research. education system must adjust its activities according to needs labor market, it, turn, provide information a timely manner. This fundamental will help ensure perfect functioning markets under study. However, unfo...