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An approach to minimize inventory risk due to weather using buyback contract with weather rebate

open access: yesInternational Transactions in Operational Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper addresses the inventory risk owing to weather fluctuations faced by retail companies and designs a new class of contract incorporating financial risk hedging. The designed contract not only coordinates the supply chain as the buyback contract does but also improves the supply chain profit by considering the inventory risk due to ...
Piyal Sarkar   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

An enhanced adaptive large neighborhood search algorithm for the multiple allocation p‐hub location problem with a mesh backbone network in video‐on‐demand services

open access: yesInternational Transactions in Operational Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This study tackles the multiple allocation p$p$‐hub location problem (MApHLP) in the context of video‐on‐demand services, where digital content is partitioned into segments and stored exclusively at selected hub locations. Users, distributed across a wide geographical area, can connect to multiple hubs based on demand patterns, with all hubs ...
Soumen Atta
wiley   +1 more source

Expert Asymmetry: Evidence From Securities Litigation

open access: yesJournal of Empirical Legal Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Modern litigation often involves two separate, extra‐legal features: (1) contingency fee arrangements with the plaintiff‐side attorney, and (2) a “battle of the experts” where the outcome of the case rests on conflicting expert witness testimony.
Adam Callister   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Optimal Healthcare Contracts: Theory and Empirical Evidence

open access: yesJournal of Economics &Management Strategy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In this paper, we investigate the contracts offered by a large healthcare purchaser to health service providers. Contracts are based on the DRG principle that all hospitalizations in a diagnosis group are reimbursed at the same rate. This principle is relaxed in practice, as in several cases, the amount reimbursed within each DRG exhibits ...
Paolo Berta   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Landless Rural Workers Movement (MST) and New Agrarian Questions in Brazil

open access: yesJournal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Landless Rural Workers Movement of Brazil (MST) primarily organized occupations of large‐scale farms, forcing the redistribution of land for creation of agrarian reform settlements. In the past 20 years, however, land occupations and the establishment of new agrarian reform settlements have consistently declined, while the MST shifted ...
Estevan Coca, Gustavo de L. T. Oliveira
wiley   +1 more source

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