This policy brief discusses preventive care benefits and cost-sharing included in health insurance provisions of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) legislation and highlights some consequences to Americans and the country in terms of healthcare costs and value.

This paper studies the effects of information sharing strategies on supply chain performance. We first consider four common types of information sharing strategies for a supply chain of a single product: (1) order information sharing where every stage of the supply chain only knows the orders from its immediate downstream stage; (2) demand information sharing where every stage has full informa...

It was October 25, 1986. Game 6 of the World Series between the New York Mets and the Boston Red Sox was tied in the bottom of the 10th inning, with 2 outs and 1 runner on base. The Mets’ Mookie Wilson hit a routine grounder in the direction of first baseman Bill Buckner, who bent down to scoop it up. But in one of the most infamous incidents in sports history, the ball sailed past Buckner’s ou...

With the implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), access to insurance and coverage of preventive care services has been expanded. By removing the barrier of shared costs for preventive care, it is expected that an increase in utilization of preventive care services will reduce the cost of chronic diseases. Early detection and treatment is anticipated to be less costly than treatment at ...

Ginsburgh and Zang [1] consider a revenue sharing problem for the museum pass program, in which several museums jointly offer museum passes that allow visitors an unlimited access to participating museums in a certain period of time. We consider a cost sharing problem that can be regarded as the dual problem of the above revenue sharing problem. We assume that all museums are public goods and h...

Unauthorized copying of movies is a major concern for the motion picture industry. While unauthorized copies of movies have been distributed via portable physical media for some time, low-cost, high-bandwidth Internet connections and peer-to-peer file sharing networks provide highly efficient distribution media. Many movies are showing up on file sharing networks shortly after, and in some case...

In this paper we give a generalization of the serial costsharing rule de…ned by Moulin and Shenker (1992) for cost sharing problems. According to the serial cost sharing rule, agents with low demands of a good pay cost increments associated with low quantities in the production process of that good. This fact might not always be desirable for those agents, since those cost increments might be h...

Social commerce is a new generation of e-commerce. Compared to traditional commerce, social commerce, treating social media and social network as a carrier, promotes online trading and information exchange related to commercial activities. Information sharing in social commerce affects buying behavior of consumers in all aspects. Therefore, research on information sharing in social commerce has...

The first essay of this doctoral dissertation empirically measures the business value of personalization using data consisting of 600,000 email advertisements with varying degrees of personalization sent to 35,000 customers over a nine month period. While we confirm that personalization based on customers past interests generates a positive response, we also report evidence that customers are c...