In this paper, we address a cooperative game application to supply chain management. Specifically, we study a distribution system where a set of retailers may order for a single product from a unique supplier to satisfy a deterministic and constant rate demand of final customers. Each retailer, when ordering for a quantity of product, has to pay a fixed ordering cost and a transportation cost. ...

This work has been supported financially by the National Science Foundation (SBR-9510985) and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. I am grateful to Joshua S, White for excellent research assistance. I have benefitted from conversations with Robert Barre, Roland Benabou, Olivier Blanchard, Casey Mulligan, Richard Zeckhauser and seminar participants at Boston College, Dartmouth, Harvard, Johns Hopkins...

In this paper a new consumption function is derived based on savings motive hypothesis (SMH). The major theory behind the SMH that households save part of their income in period 1 and transfer it to 2. Implying addition autonomous variable validity tested by using data from India, Kenya, South Africa, Saudi Arabia, UK USA for 1970 2018. analyses are performed World Bank Data generalized least s...

The use of renewable energy reduces environmental pollution and leads to achievement of sustainable development. The current study investigates the dynamic interrelationship between sustainable development, renewable and non-renewable energies and environment nexus by applying Bayesian vector autoregression (BVAR) and impulse response functions in Iran with an annual data frequency for the time...