We study the effects of different pricing strategies available to a continuous review inventory system with capacitated supply, which operates in a fluctuating environment. The system has a single server with exponential processing time. The inventory holding cost is nondecreasing and convex in the inventory level, the production cost is linear with no set-up cost. The potential customer demand...

The effective factors on the economic growth of Iran during the first 5-year development plan are studied. The main characteristics of this period are that the first development plan began after the end of war during which some of the unused capacities of the war period were utilized. While the budget deficit was continued in this period the government also pursued policies such as devaluation ...

Analysis of inventory systems involving market-oriented pricing decisions has recently become an interesting topic in the field of inventory control. Price and marketing expenditure are considered as important elements when selling goods and enhancing revenues by manufacturers. The importance of accounting for uncertainty in such environments spurs an interest to develop appropriate decision ma...

We search for useful models of aggregate fluctuations with inventories. We focus exclusively on dynamic stochastic general equilibrium models that endogenously give rise to inventory investment and evaluate two leading candidates: the (S,s) model and the stockout avoidance model. Each model is examined under both technology shocks and preference shocks, and its performance gauged by its ability...

This paper analyzes the second-best pricing and investment rules to be followed in the transportation industries in the presence of intermodal competition, exogenous price distortions, and financing constraints, using both theoretical and simulation analysis. It shows that price distortions and financing constraints in one mode will not only affect the investment rules in that mode, but will al...

Coordination of market decisions with other aspects of operations management such as production and inventory decisions has long been a meticulous research issue in supply chain management. Generally, changes to the original lot-sizing policy stimulated by market prices may impose remarkable deviation revenue throughout the supply and demand chain system. This paper examines how to set the chan...

This paper presents a location-inventory-pricing model for designing the distribution network of a supply chain with price-sensitive demands and inventory-capacity constraints. The supply chain has market power and uses markup pricing. An efficient Lagrangian relaxation algorithm is proposed to solve the model. Our numerical study shows that by moderately increasing the number of possible value...

Now the investment promotion administration is carried out by the External Affairs Office of every city’s government without effective information integration. The building of City Investment Promotion Information Network System will be helpful for meeting the foreign investor’s information demands in a fast, easy and accurate way from all directions and levels. What’s more, it also helps to im...

The importance of managing the risk-return balance of information technology (IT) investments has become clearer than ever. Yet, quantitative assessment of IT investment risk and return based on financial measures remains a major challenge. Recently scholars have used event study analysis to measure the value created via IT investment, by examining the abnormal changes in shareholder wealth aro...

There is probably not a developing country in the world—even themost isolated, such as North Korea— that does not work hard to attract more foreign direct investment (FDI). Political leaders and policymakers know that FDI brings with it capital, technology, jobs and links to the world economy. The debate has raged about how best to accomplish this goal. Do investment promotion activities matter...