在风险规避下考虑质量因素的竞争供应链的均衡策略研究

在供应链竞争环境下,针对具有风险规避特征的供应商和零售商组成的供应链,采用博弈及优化理论探讨竞争环境下风险规避参与者的均衡定价及质量水平,并分析风险规避度对参与者均衡定价和质量水平的影响.借助数值分析,研究了系统中各参数对决策的影响.数值仿真结果表明,各风险规避参与者的定价随着自身风险规避度的增大而减小,即参与者越害怕风险其所制定的价格越低.另外,市场竞争的存在在某种程度上会削弱风险规避特征对参与者决策的影响,使参与者的定价提高,增加参与者的收益.     

制造商信息私有条件下的双渠道供应链定价决策

针对由风险规避型制造商拥有的直销渠道和风险规避型零售商拥有的传统零售渠道组成的双渠道供应链模型,首先研究制造商和零售商的风险规避信息为共同知识条件下,直销渠道和传统零售渠道的定价决策。进一步分析制造商风险规避度为私有信息条件下,制造商和零售商的最优定价策略,探讨精炼贝叶斯均衡定价的存在条件。研究表明,信息非对称条件下,零售商即使存在信念的修正,其零售渠道的定价与制造商的定价决策类型始终保持一致,而制造商的最终定价策略选择有多种。在不同参数条件下,该非对称信息动态博弈模型可能存在分离均衡、混同均衡和准分离均衡。     

基于委托代理理论的“公司+农户”租赁模式分析

针对公司与农户合作时存在违约问题,本文基于委托代理理论构建了由风险规避的公司和农户组成的“公司+农户”租赁模型。分析了在信息不对称条件下,该模式的激励系数与租金的制定策略,并通过数值仿真探讨了各参数变化对激励系数和租金的影响。研究结果表明公司给予农户的分成比例越高,农户生产努力水平越高,同时公司前期支付给农户的租金越低,后期给予农户的分成比例越高。此外,激励系数随公司风险规避系数、农户生产能力的增加而增加,随农户风险规避系数、外生不确定因素的增加而减小;租金随农户风险规避系数、农户生产能力的增加而增加,随公司风险规避系数、外生不确定因素的增加而减小,并且在满足一定条件时,存在最优的市场价格使得租金最低。     

基于乘客惰性行为的平行航班动态定价

在同一条航线上,航空公司提供起飞时间不同的多个航班,这样的航班称为平行航班。本文以同一航线上的多个平行航班为研究对象,在考虑乘客的惰性深度和惰性广度的基础上,利用动态规划方法,研究了乘客的惰性行为对各航班最优价格的影响。数值实验表明:乘客的惰性对各航班的最优价格起负面影响,即各航班的最优价格随乘客惰性深度的增加而减小,随乘客惰性广度的增加而减小。     

幂效用函数理论下的欧式期权定价

研究在不完全信息情况下,代理人根据自己的风险偏好建立效用函数理论,在幂效用函数下寻找资产的均衡价格和无风险折现因子,并在此基础上给出幂效用函数理论下的均衡的欧式期权定价公式.     

基于两阶段动态博弈的服务外包定价分析

本文通过引入动态博弈模型,从完全竞争市场博弈定价、税收减免下博弈定价、人才补贴下博弈定价三个角度定量研究了服务外包企业的最优定价策略及其影响因素。研究表明,服务外包均衡价格受企业需求函数和竞争对手决策等因素影响,并得出了在政府行业扶持政策下的服务外包均衡价格与各参数之间的关系。依据研究结果,本文对政府给予服务外包行业的相关扶持政策提出了若干合理性建议。     

寡头垄断市场三度价格歧视动态博弈分析

对两寡头厂商2元市场用完全信息动态博弈的方法分析了实施三度价格歧视情形和统一定价情形的均衡产量,均衡价格和均衡总收益,并研究了这两种情形三个指标之间的关系.结果显示,在两个子市场的需求函数为线性需求的条件下,统一定价的市场均衡产量等于歧视定价的市场均衡产量;统一定价的均衡价格是歧视定价时两个子市场均衡价格的加权平均;统一定价的市场均衡总收益小于歧视定价的市场均衡总收益.     

对相关市场条件下贸易竞争的博弈机制及福利效应的研究

在古诺双头模型的框架内分析了市场风险和相关因素对贸易竞争均衡和福利水平的影响.与传统模型不同,假设各国市场具有潜在相关的随机需求,且出口企业具有风险规避的态度,并利用博弈模型研究了市场风险和相关因子对竞争力和成本优势形成的产出效应及定价行为的影响.推论表明国际市场的不确定性和相关性削弱了企业在完全信息条件下参与贸易竞争的动机,而各国的福利水平则取决于企业风险态度、市场风险和相关系数的特定组合.     

非线性需求下两类价格歧视交互效应的动态博弈分析

在一类非线性需求函数的条件下,基于完全信息动态博弈模型,对两寡头厂商在竞争状态下同时实施二度与三度价格歧视的定价方法进行了研究,讨论了两厂商在面对两个子市场情形下,分别对各子市场的需求区间进行两段分段时的利润最大化问题,得出了在二三度价格歧视下两厂商的均衡产量与分段点,为寡头厂商的生产决策提供了理论依据.     

不完全成本信息下差异产品厂商古诺竞争博弈分析

在成本信息不完全条件下研究了具有替代性产品的古诺竞争问题,并对完全信息与不完全信息两种情形下的均衡结果做了比较。研究表明,在不完全信息下,产品间的替代性、成本函数的概率值以及低成本识别因子对成本信息优势厂商和劣势厂商的均衡产量大小和均衡利润高低均有影响,但对各厂商间的均衡价格高低无影响。无论上述参数如何取值,低成本厂商在不完全信息条件下的贝叶斯纳什均衡产量、均衡价格、均衡利润以及市场份额均低于完全信息条件下的纳什均衡结果;而对高成本厂商而言,结果恰好相反。     

基于风险偏好的供应链企业社会责任投入与定价策略研究

本文研究制造商承担企业社会责任时,竞争市场下供应链的均衡价格策略。通过Stackelberg博弈模型,探讨供应链成员的风险规避程度、竞争市场的需求波动性和竞争市场的需求相关性以及制造商企业社会责任水平对供应链均衡策略的影响。研究表明,在制造商承担企业社会责任时,风险规避程度对价格策略的影响依赖于制造商企业社会责任水平的高低;竞争市场的需求波动性较大或竞争市场需求相关性较高时,制造商向下游风险规避型零售商提供较低的批发价格合约, 此时产品的市场价格降低,消费者福利增加;当制造商的生产成本较低时,承担越高的企业社会责任导致消费者福利增加;反之,当制造商的生产成本较高时,消费者福利总是减少。     

Impact of risk aversion and belief heterogeneity on trading of defaultable claims

This paper studies the problem of pricing and trading of defaultable claims among investors with heterogeneous risk preferences and market views. Based on the utility-indifference pricing methodology, we construct the bid-ask spreads for risk-averse buyers and sellers, and show that the spreads widen as risk aversion or trading volume increases. Moreover, we analyze the buyer’s optimal static trading position under various market settings, including (i) when the market pricing rule is linear, and (ii) when the counterparty—single or multiple sellers—may have different nonlinear pricing rules generated by risk aversion and belief heterogeneity. For defaultable bonds and credit default swaps, we provide explicit formulas for the optimal trading positions, and examine the combined effect of risk aversions and beliefs. In particular, we find that belief heterogeneity, rather than the difference in risk aversion, is crucial to trigger a trade.     

价格竞争下风险规避对闭环供应链决策的影响研究

基于零售商销售价格与回收价格竞争情形,构建了一个可持续的闭环供应链.考虑决策者风险规避行为,研究了闭环供应链成员的定价决策问题.利用博弈论,在风险中性与风险规避特性下分别探讨了批发价格,零售价格和回收价格的最优决策,并建立了它们的表达式.研究结论表明,仅当零售商具有风险规避时,制造商决策不受零售商的影响,而仅当制造商具有风险规避时,零售商决策会受制造商的影响.同时,当二者都具有风险规避特性时,他们之间的决策会相互影响.     

Risk-neutral economy and zero price of risk

The paper investigates the equilibrium in an economy in which all participants are indifferent to risk. The mechanism of asset and derivative pricing in such economy is identified. It is shown that no economy in equilibrium with stochastic interest rates can be simultaneously risk-neutral and have zero market price of risk. On the other hand, there exist equilibrium economies with risk-averse participants and zero prices of risk.     

产出不确定条件下“公司+农户”型订单农业供应链协商模型研究

在农产品产出不确定性及零售价格受农产品产出率影响的条件下,研究了一类由风险规避农户和风险中性公司组成“公司+农户”型订单农业农产品供应链协调问题。在该农产品供应链中,农户和公司通过Nash协商谈判来分别决策最优的生产量和订单价格。研究结果表明,在农产品产出不确定及零售市场价格受农产品产出率影响的条件下,风险规避型农户和公司的Nash协商合作博弈存在均衡解。Nash协商谈判所达成的最优农产品产出量和订单价格均高于分散决策情形下的最优农产品产出量和订单价格。最优农产品产出量是关于农户风险规避度的单调增函数,而最优的订单价格是关于农户风险规避度的单调减函数。最后,通过与分散决策情形相比,证明了Nash协商谈判机制能够促使风险规避型农户和风险中性型公司均达到帕累托改进。     

Optimal portfolio choice and stochastic volatility

In this paper we examine the effect of stochastic volatility on optimal portfolio choice in both partial and general equilibrium settings. In a partial equilibrium setting we derive an analog of the classic Samuelson–Merton optimal portfolio result and define volatility‐adjusted risk aversion as the effective risk aversion of an individual investing in an asset with stochastic volatility. We extend prior research which shows that effective risk aversion is greater with stochastic volatility than without for investors without wealth effects by providing further comparative static results on changes in effective risk aversion due to changes in the distribution of volatility. We demonstrate that effective risk aversion is increasing in the constant absolute risk aversion and the variance of the volatility distribution for investors without wealth effects. We further show that for these investors a first‐order stochastic dominant shift in the volatility distribution does not necessarily increase effective risk aversion, whereas a second‐order stochastic dominant shift in the volatility does increase effective risk aversion. Finally, we examine the effect of stochastic volatility on equilibrium asset prices. We derive an explicit capital asset pricing relationship that illustrates how stochastic volatility alters equilibrium asset prices in a setting with multiple risky assets, where returns have a market factor and asset‐specific random components and multiple investor types. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Wait or buy? The strategic consumer: Pricing and profit implications

Using tools from operations research, airlines have, for many years, taken a strategic approach to pricing the seats available on a particular flight based on demand forecasts and information. The result of this approach is that the same seat on the same flight is often offered at different fares at different times. Setting of these prices using yield-management approaches is a major activity for many airlines and is well studied in the literature. However, consumers are becoming increasingly aware of the existence of pricing strategies used by airlines. In addition, the availability of airline travel pricing on the Internet affords consumers the opportunity to behave more strategically when making purchase decisions. The onset of the information age makes it possible for an informed consumer or a third party, such as a travel agent, to obtain demand information similar to that used by the airlines. In particular, it is possible for consumers or travel agents to purchase historical data or to obtain it by monitoring the seats that are available at various prices for a given flight. If a consumer understands the pricing strategy and has access to demand information, he/she may decide to defer purchase of a ticket because they believe that a cheaper seat may yet become available. If consumers were to make use of this information to make such strategic purchasing decisions, what would be the impact on airline revenues? The purpose of this paper is to investigate these impacts. This work indicates that use of standard yield management approaches to pricing by airlines can result in significantly reduced revenues when buyers are using an informed and strategic approach to purchasing. Therefore, when airlines are setting or presenting prices, they should investigate the effect of strategic purchasing on their decisions.     

Asset prices in an ambiguous economy

Models with ambiguity averse preferences have the potential to explain some pricing anomalies on financial markets. However, the models used in applications make additional assumptions, beyond ambiguity aversion, on the structure of the investor’s preferences. Therefore, it is not clear how to disentangle the effect of ambiguity aversion from other features of preferences on equilibrium prices. This paper offers a general theory of asset pricing assuming only ambiguity aversion. Price indeterminacy may result in equilibrium when preferences are not smooth. A set of priors, which is identifiable in all the models used in applications, contains the relevant information to price assets. Ambiguity enriches the standard pricing formula by an additional stochastic discount factor and we calculate its explicit form for various models.     

风险规避型零售商资金约束下双渠道闭环供应链的定价决策

针对单一风险中性制造商和单一风险规避零售商组成的双渠道闭环供应链,建立制造商主导的Stackelberg博弈模型,讨论零售商分别通过银行贷款和延期支付解决资金约束问题时,各参与方的最优定价,分析回收率和零售商风险规避程度对决策结果的影响,并比较两种融资方式中决策结果的差异。研究表明:在双渠道闭环供应链中,零售商的资金约束不会影响批发价格、直销价格和零售价格随回收率的变化趋势。随着零售商风险规避程度的提高,银行贷款中批发价格的变化还与利率有关,直销价格始终降低;延期支付中批发价格始终提高,直销价格与之无关。当融资利率相等时,银行贷款中的批发价格始终高于延期支付,而直销价格和零售价格的相对大小还受利率和回收率的影响。     

Maximizing revenue in the airline industry under one-way pricing

The paper describes a methodology that has been implemented in a major British airline to find the optimal price to charge for airline tickets under one-way pricing. An analytical model has been developed to describe the buying behaviour of customers for flights over the selling period. Using this model and a standard analytical method for constrained optimization, we can find an expression for the optimal price structure for a flight. The expected number of bookings made on each day of the selling period and in each fare class given these prices can then be easily calculated. A simulation model is used to find the confidence ranges on the numbers of bookings and these ranges can be used to regulate the sale of tickets. A procedure to update the price structure based on the remaining capacity has also been developed.