多物品拍卖的捆绑销售策略

拍卖商在拍卖多个不同物品的过程中,面临着是捆绑拍卖还是分开拍卖的问题.本文讨论在第二价格密封拍卖(维克里拍卖)方式下,拍卖商拍卖多个不同物品时,其所采取的最优策略(捆绑拍卖或是分开拍卖)与投标人的数量以及投标人对物品的估价的关系.     

基于数据包络分析的混合多属性第二分值拍卖机制

多属性拍卖在传统价格拍卖的基础上纳入了价格和质量多个属性,已广泛应用于许多领域。本文针对输入几乎没有先验结构且投标人数量足够大的情况,在以往有关多属性拍卖研究的基础上将单个投入扩展为多个投入,将物品的多个属性(价格、完成时间、劳动力数量、质量等因素)合理划分为投入或产出,设计了运行有效的基于数据包络分析的多属性第二分值拍卖机制。与其他方法相比,数据包络分析方法可以有效解决多投入多产出问题,结合多目标规划方法,可以帮助采购方在最大化自身利益的同时,找到整体表现更好的供应商。该机制满足个人理性和激励相容,与传统第二分值拍卖机制相比,在吸引投标人的前提下能够最大化拍卖人的利益。     

汽车行业中买断销售策略分析

买断销售指的是销售商和制造商就某产品在一定区域内达成协议,销售商以买断价格从制造商处采购一定数量的产品,然后由销售商对产品进行定价对外销售.制造商通过采取买断销售实现了对产品的促销.在现实背景的基础上,分析了制造商应该在何时采取买断销售方式,以及买断策略下相应的决策问题.找到了制造商采取买断策略的条件,以及该策略下最优买断价格和买断数量决策,并发现在制造商的最优决策下,制造商和销售商能够实现双赢.     

基于价格歧视策略的多单元逆向多属性英式拍卖机制

针对现有的多单元逆向多属性拍卖机制的市场分配效率都比较低,不利于社会效益最大化和采购双方长期合作等问题,设计了高效率的基于价格歧视策略的多单元逆向多属性英式拍卖机制,利用线性混合整数规划建立了赢者确定模型,并基于新建立的拍卖机制给出了拍卖流程和投标策略,为供应商提供投标决策支持。然后通过设计数值实例和对比模拟实验收集数据,采取统计分析的方法验证了新设计的拍卖机制市场分配效率和采购方的效益都比较高。上述研究结果适用于通过逆向多属性拍卖与信息技术相结合的网上自动化多单元商品采购。     

车辆牌照拍卖模型

提出多个相同物品(如车辆牌照)同时密封拍卖的模型，给出对称均衡竞标策略；证明了该拍卖方式与第一价格密封连续拍卖产生相同的预期收益；对估价为均匀分布的拍卖预期收益进行了研究。     

质量保证策略下服务商的质量缺陷补偿决策分析

随着竞争的日趋激烈,越来越多的服务商采用质量保证策略作为竞争手段以吸引顾客,然而现有研究缺乏对该策略下的质量缺陷补偿问题的深入分析。鉴于此,本文系统地分析了质量保证策略下服务商的质量缺陷补偿问题:首先分析了当服务价格外生时,服务商的最优质量缺陷补偿决策;然后分别探讨在服务价格内生变化和服务供给变动的影响下,服务商的最优质量缺陷补偿;最后,通过数值分析,探寻在服务价格和服务供给的双重变动影响下,服务商的最优质量缺陷补偿。本文拓展了服务质量的研究,对于指导服务型企业如何制定质量缺陷补偿具有较强的实践启示意义。     

多物品价格歧视拍卖模型

本文将单物品的M-参数、对数凹效用拍卖推广到多物品价格歧视拍卖.我们得到了出价函数为均衡出价函数的充要条件.     

损耗性物品信用交易下的斯坦博格库存模型

目前众多的信用交易模型是在供应商给定的信用交易期限条件下,零售商确定最优订购数量或订购周期,而很少考虑供应商信用交易策略的制定问题。本文针对损耗性物品,在最终需求为价格的线性函数条件下,利用斯坦博格博弈模型给出了信用交易下供应商信用交易策略的制定和零售商的最优订购决策,最后通过算例对模型进行了验证。     

基于销售商串货的供应链利润模型

为分析供应商采用数量折扣作为激励机制后,销售商串货对供应链整体利润及成员利润的影响,研究一个供应商和两个销售商组成的供应链,构造销售商无串货和串货两个Stackelberg博弈利润模型,通过模型推导确定供应商和销售商的最优决策,并用数值实验分析折扣率、销售成本与制造成本等参数的变化对无串货和串货两种情形下供应链整体利润差值和成员利润差值的影响.研究结果表明:在一定折扣率区间内串货能同时提高供应链整体利润及成员利润.因此,供应商作为供应链主导方,可通过设置不同折扣率调控销售商的串货行为,实现供应链整体利润及成员利润的提高.     

基于多数量需求拍卖机制的动态存贮/分配模型

该文分析了折扣准则下基于多数量需求拍卖机制的多阶段存贮问题,运用动态规划方法,在有限阶段对该问题研究了每个时期应该出售的最优产品数量、最优分配方案和最优订购策略,提出了运用修正的多需求二级价格拍卖模型来实现最优分配,并对无限阶段下的动态存贮/分配问题进行了讨论.     

收入管理的MMV动态拍卖机制研究

随着互联网上交易的增多,多单位同质产品销售的拍卖机制成为了一个新的研究方向.针对易逝性服务产品的收入管理问题,提出将产品销售分为多个拍卖期的MMV(Multi-period and Multi-unit Vickrey(Auction with Reserve Pricing)动态拍卖机制,给出每期最优拍卖单位数和保留价格的确定方法,证明了最优拍卖单位数分别关于剩余存量和销售时间单增的性质,以及保留价格关于剩余存量的单降性.最后证明MMV机制的每期实际成交价格将高于Vulcano(2002)提出的MSP(Modified Second-Price)机制,根据易逝性服务产品的需求特点得到MMV机制优于MSP机制的结论.     

国债招标拍卖的最优机制:数量与价格歧视

过去已有相当多的文献讨论国债拍卖,米勒和弗雷德曼认为统一价格比歧视价格拍卖有比较优势.研究国债拍卖最优分配方式的选择问题,采用最优机制设计方法分析国债拍卖活动,内生地得到最优拍卖机制.然而结果表明,如果使用价格歧视及数量歧视(定量分配),那么政府的销售收益会得到改善,这是一个最优拍卖机制,不同于米勒和弗雷德曼的观点.     

基于期权博弈的中国风电投资分析

本文运用期权博弈的思想建立模型,将风电特许权投资项目看作不完全信息下的抢滩博弈问题,讨论在现有的特许权机制下,引入碳排放交易机制对风电投资的影响。模型分析了在未来碳价格存在不确定性的情况下,风电投资竞价机制会对投资者的竞价行为会产生什么样的影响,投资者应如何确定自己的最优投标价格,其他竞标者的策略对竞标者的影响将如何体现以及不同因素变化时对投资者投资行为的影响。     

Modeling and analysis of an auction-based logistics market

We consider a logistics spot market where the transportation orders from a number of firms are matched with two types of carriers through a reverse auction. In the spot market, local carriers compete with in-transit carriers that have lower costs. In order to analyze the effects of implementing a logistics spot market on these three parties: firms, local carriers, and in-transit carriers and also the effects of various system parameters, we develop a two-stage stochastic model. We first model the auction in a static setting and determine the expected auction price based on the number of carriers engaging in the auction and their cost distributions. We then develop a continuous-time Markov chain model to evaluate the performance of the system in a dynamic setting with random arrivals and possible abandonment of orders and carriers. By combining these two models, we evaluate the performance measures such as the expected auction price, price paid to the carriers, distribution of orders between local and in-transit carriers, and expected number of carriers and orders waiting at the logistics center in the long run. We present analytical and computational results related to the performance of the system and discuss operation of such a logistics spot market in Turkey.     

Vickrey–Dutch procurement auction for multiple items

We consider a setting where there is a manufacturer who wants to procure multiple items from a set of suppliers each of whom can supply one or more of these items (bundles). We design an ascending price auction for such a setting which implements the Vickrey–Clarke–Groves outcome and truthful bidding is an ex post Nash equilibrium. Our auction maintains non-linear and non-anonymous prices throughout the auction. This auction has a simple price adjustment step and is easy to implement in practice. As offshoots of this auction, we also suggest other simple auctions (in which truthful bidding is not an equilibrium by suppliers) which may be suitable where incentives to suppliers are not a big concern. Computer simulations of our auction show that it is scalable for the multi-unit case, and has better information revelation properties than its descending auction counterpart.     

Impact of supply base heterogeneity in electronic markets

Internet based marketplaces have enabled industrial buyers to locate suppliers from geographically diverse locations. This has resulted in increased variations in certain supplier parameters such as capacity and cost among the participating suppliers. However, the impact of this increased heterogeneity on the procurement practices are not well understood. In this paper we consider three supplier parameters that can affect the price the buyer pays and the number of suppliers that the buyer will select for award of contract. These attributes are capacity, production cost and demand for supplier’s capacity. We show how these parameters impact the price that a supplier quotes. We also show how the buyer will determine the optimum number of suppliers using a reverse auction mechanism when he does not have perfect knowledge of the suppliers’ parameters. Our model suggests that buyers need to adjust some of the input parameters while procuring capacity from a heterogeneous supply base. For instance, buyers need to pre-qualify more suppliers if the supply base has greater heterogeneity.     

Application of multi-dimensional procurement auction in single-period inventory models

Procurement is one of the major activities in the Manufacturing Resource Planning (MRP II), which is closely coupled with inventory management. Any improvement in this area will have a direct impact on the performance of the entire supply chain. Auction mechanism can be a successful procurement method when there are several potential suppliers available. In this paper, we consider a single-period inventory model when the selection of the supplier is done through a reverse auction with bids consisting of several attributes, namely price, shortage quantity, and lead time. The multi-dimensionality of the bid increases the complexity of the underlying problem creating a need for an approach to determine an approximate optimal target level. This is needed for the initiation of the auction and the procurement process. Monte-Carlo simulation method was used to investigate the performance of the approximation. Simulation results show that the analytical method provides an acceptable approximation for the optimal target inventory level.     

A fuzzy mathematical model for the joint economic lot size problem with multiple price breaks

This paper applies fuzzy mathematical programming to solve the joint economic lot size problem with multiple price breaks. In order to entice the buyer to increase the order quantity, it is a common practice for the seller to offer quantity discounts to the buyer. From the system viewpoint, the joint cost for the seller and buyer can be minimized only when the buyer increases his economic order quantity. The problem is how to determine the number of price breaks, as well as the quantity discount and order quantity at each price break, to achieve the optimal joint cost. Fuzzy mathematical programming provides a very efficient algorithm to solve the above problem simultaneously from the perspectives of the seller and the buyer. Another common problem in joint economic lot size model is how to split the system profit between the seller and the buyer. Whereas the traditional approach to this problem is to divide the profit based on a certain ratio determined by the bargaining power of both parties, fuzzy mathematical programming can achieve the same satisfaction level to both parties based on their respective cost functions.     

Auctions with an asking price

This paper studies a sales mechanism, prevalent in housing markets, where the seller does not reveal or commit to a reserve price but instead publicly announces an asking price. We show that the seller sets an asking price such that, in equilibrium, buyers of certain types would accept it with positive probability. We also show that this sales mechanism, with an optimally chosen asking price set prior to the seller learning her value, does better than any standard auction with a reserve price equal to the seller’s reservation value. We then extend the analysis to the case where the asking price reveals information about the seller’s reservation value. We show that in this case there is a separating equilibrium with fully-revealing asking prices, which is revenue-equivalent to a standard auction with a reserve price set at the seller’s reservation value.     

A multi-period inventory model with multi-dimensional procurement bidding

We consider a multi-period inventory model with raw material procurements carried out via a reverse auction. Bids are multi-dimensional, and they consist of supplier information of price, shortage quantity and lead time. This work is an extension of our earlier work that has focused on multi-dimensional procurement auctions in single-period inventory models, to multi-period settings. The new model is based on a hybrid approach combining stochastic dynamic programming and simulation.