零售商合作偏好下生鲜农产品供应链的政府补贴机制与优化策略

在零售商具有合作偏好行为的背景下,针对自然灾害影响产出的特性,设计基于“优先保证最大化社会福利的基础上促进农户增收”的灾害年的不同政府补贴政策,建立了政府、零售商和农户的三阶段Stackelberg博弈模型.对比分析了政府的不同补贴政策以及零售商的合作偏好行为对政府的最优补贴率、零售商的最优收购价格、农户的最优生产投入量和三方利益的影响,并给出了政府的最优补贴政策。研究结果表明:(1)当零售商的合作偏好程度低于某一临界值,且“丰收年”发生的概率适中或偏高时,政府的最优补贴政策是对农户提供补贴;否则,政府的最优补贴政策是对零售商提供补贴;(2)政府的补贴政策可以实现政府、消费者和未受补贴方三方共赢的局面,但获补贴方不一定增收。     

EPR制度下的家电以旧换新回收策略优化模型

研究生产者责任延伸制度(EPR)约束下,家电生产销售企业集中决策下实施以旧换新进行废旧产品回收的问题。在对家电消费者市场结构进行分析基础上,建立以企业利润最大化为目标的实施以旧换新回收策略的优化模型,并根据我国家电行业EPR制度的特点,构建政府与企业间竞争的Stackelberg博弈模型,研究在政府环境效益最优时的补贴和基金征收标准下,企业以旧换新回收产品最优定价决策;同时,与企业不直接参与废旧产品回收时单一定价相应结果进行比较。结果表明:在EPR约束下,政府环境效益最优时的补贴和基金征收标准,对企业实施以旧换新回收策略的产品销量、总利润和废旧产品回收量的影响取决于企业成本结构、消费者结构、消费者效用和废旧产品回收处理能力。企业决策者需根据不同情形决定是否参与以旧换新回收实践。     

Entropy methods for identifying hedonic models

This paper contributes to the literature on hedonic models in two ways. First, it makes use of Queyranne’s reformulation of a hedonic model in the discrete case as a network flow problem in order to provide a proof of existence and integrality of a hedonic equilibrium and efficient computation of hedonic prices. Second, elaborating on entropic methods developed in Galichon and Salanié (Cupid’s invisible hand: social surplus and identification in matching models. Working Paper, 2014), this paper proposes a new identification strategy for hedonic models in a single market. This methodology allows one to introduce heterogeneities in both consumers’ and producers’ attributes and to recover producers’ profits and consumers’ utilities based on the observation of production and consumption patterns and the set of hedonic prices.     

Pricing with markups in industries with increasing marginal costs

We study a game that models a market in which heterogeneous producers of perfect substitutes make pricing decisions in a first stage, followed by consumers that select a producer that sells at lowest price. As opposed to Cournot or Bertrand competition, producers select prices using a supply function that maps prices to production levels. Solutions of this type of models are normally referred to as supply function equilibria. We consider a market where producers’ convex costs functions are proportional to each other, depending on the efficiency of each particular producer. We provide necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of an equilibrium that uses simple supply functions that replicate the cost structure. We then specialize the model to monomial cost functions with exponent \(q>0\) , which allows us to reinterpret the simple supply functions as a markup applied to the production cost. We prove that an equilibrium for the markups exists if and only if the number of producers in the market is strictly larger than \(1+q\) , and if an equilibrium exists, it is unique. The main result for monomials is that the equilibrium nearly minimizes the total production cost when the market is competitive. The result holds because when there is enough competition, markups are bounded, thus preventing prices to be significantly distorted from costs. Focusing on the case of linear unit-cost functions on the production quantities, we characterize the equilibrium accurately and refine the previous result to establish an almost tight bound on the worst-case inefficiency of equilibria. Finally, we derive explicitly the producers’ best response for series-parallel networks with linear unit-cost functions, extending our previous result to more general topologies. We prove that a unique equilibrium exists if and only if the network that captures the market structure is 3-edge-connected. For non-series-parallel markets, we provide an example that does not admit an equilibrium on markups.     

新能源分时租赁汽车监管机制的演化博弈分析

目前我国新能源分时租赁汽车正处于发展初期,其发展过程中存在的问题接踵而至,如运营不力、安全隐患以及骗取补贴金等,对消费者和政府造成了较大的困扰。本文运用演化博弈理论构建了政府部门、企业与消费者之间的三方动态博弈模型,基于复制动态方程和雅可比矩阵对模型进行求解分析,并通过Python软件对模型结果进行数值仿真模拟。研究表明,当关键参数取值位于不同数值区间时,系统分别呈现出四种演化稳定结果。适当加大补贴额度与惩罚力度、增加消费者得到的补偿系数比例、敦促企业降低努力经营成本,有利于新能源分时租赁汽车行业的健康发展。研究结论为政府部门政策制定及决策实施提供理论依据与参考。     

Integrated modeling of extended agro-food supply chains: A systems approach

The current intense food production-consumption is one of the main sources of environmental pollution and contributes to anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions. Organic farming is a potential way to reduce environmental impacts by excluding synthetic pesticides and fertilizers from the process. Despite ecological benefits, it is unlikely that conversion to organic can be financially viable for farmers, without additional support and incentives from consumers. This study models the interplay between consumer preferences and socio-environmental issues related to agriculture and food production. We operationalize the novel concept of extended agro-food supply chain and simulate adaptive behavior of farmers, food processors, retailers, and customers. Not only the operational factors (e.g., price, quantity, and lead time), but also the behavioral factors (e.g., attitude, perceived control, social norms, habits, and personal goals) of the food suppliers and consumers are considered in order to foster organic farming. We propose an integrated approach combining agent-based, discrete-event, and system dynamics modeling for a case of wine supply chain. Findings demonstrate the feasibility and superiority of the proposed model over the traditional sustainable supply chain models in incorporating the feedback between consumers and producers and analyzing management scenarios that can urge farmers to expand organic agriculture. Results further indicate that demand-side participation in transition pathways towards sustainable agriculture can become a time-consuming effort if not accompanied by the middle actors between consumers and farmers. In practice, our proposed model may serve as a decision-support tool to guide evidence-based policymaking in the food and agriculture sector.     

考虑政府补贴的原料回收与有机肥生产供应链博弈分析

保护环境是政府的重要工作职责。为了减少养殖带来的环境污染,本文考虑了由养殖户、制造商、市场组成的原料回收-有机肥生产供应链和政府补贴政策,建立了养殖户-制造商博弈决策模型,以及供应链-政府决策博弈模型,给出了最优解的表达式,并分析了养殖户收益、制造商收益、政府支出的影响因素。结果表明,实施补贴政策情形下,养殖户和制造商收益都得到提升,政府在环境方面的支出可以减少;进一步分析表明,政府直接补贴制造商的效果更好。本文给出了考虑环保需求和存在政府补贴的供应链运作与博弈优化策略,研究结论对于相关企业提高收益和政府部门制定补贴政策具有一定的指导意义。     

消费者异质性下基础产品及其附加品的供应链定价策略研究

建立一个由制造商和销售商组成的二级供应链模型,在销售商向消费者销售制造商基础产品的同时提供可选附加品的供应链多产品定价背景下研究了制造商及销售商的定价策略。以消费者对附加品价值增值存在的异质性将基础产品及其附加品的消费市场细分为基础产品单独消费市场及产品共同消费市场。基于市场细分比例以及附加品价值增值程度,讨论了不同条件下制造商及销售商的定价策略以及所形成的供应链定价均衡,分析了产品定价均衡与市场细分比例、附加品价值增值程度之间的关系。     

创新驱动模式下战略性新兴产业政府补贴策略分析

针对政府补贴难以激励战略性新兴产业形成创新驱动力的问题,以新能源汽车产业为例,构建了一个旨在促进企业技术研发的政府创新补贴策略分析模型。假设产业呈现明显的创新驱动特征,模型分别针对政府理性决策与有限理性决策的情况,对政府创新补贴及企业创新投入策略进行了博弈均衡分析,并讨论了技术创新环境的改善对最优策略及局中人收益的影响。结果表明,在创新驱动模式下,企业最优创新投入比例对政府补贴水平不敏感,且过高的补贴可能挤出企业创新投入,容易形成企业套利空间。此外,改善技术创新环境对强化企业市场主体地位,弱化政府管制对市场的干预具有积极作用。     

Open versus closed loop capacity equilibria in electricity markets under perfect and oligopolistic competition

We consider two game-theoretic models of the generation capacity expansion problem in liberalized electricity markets. The first is an open loop equilibrium model, where generation companies simultaneously choose capacities and quantities to maximize their individual profit. The second is a closed loop model, in which companies first choose capacities maximizing their profit anticipating the market equilibrium outcomes in the second stage. The latter problem is an equilibrium problem with equilibrium constraints. In both models, the intensity of competition among producers in the energy market is frequently represented using conjectural variations. Considering one load period, we show that for any choice of conjectural variations ranging from perfect competition to Cournot, the closed loop equilibrium coincides with the Cournot open loop equilibrium, thereby obtaining a ‘Kreps and Scheinkman’-like result and extending it to arbitrary strategic behavior. When expanding the model framework to multiple load periods, the closed loop equilibria for different conjectural variations can diverge from each other and from open loop equilibria. We also present and analyze alternative conjectured price response models with switching conjectures. Surprisingly, the rank ordering of the closed loop equilibria in terms of consumer surplus and market efficiency (as measured by total social welfare) is ambiguous. Thus, regulatory approaches that force marginal cost-based bidding in spot markets may diminish market efficiency and consumer welfare by dampening incentives for investment. We also show that the closed loop capacity yielded by a conjectured price response second stage competition can be less or equal to the closed loop Cournot capacity, and that the former capacity cannot exceed the latter when there are symmetric agents and two load periods.     

Distributed Price Adjustment Based on Convex Analysis

In this paper, we suggest a distributed process of price adjustment toward a partial market equilibrium. As the main contribution, our algorithm of price adjustment is computationally efficient and decentralized. Its convergence properties are crucially based on convex analysis. The proposed price adjustment corresponds to a subgradient scheme for minimizing a special nonsmooth convex function. This function is the total excessive revenue of the market’s participants and its minimizers are equilibrium prices. As the main result, the algorithm of price adjustment is shown to converge to equilibrium prices. Additionally, the market clears on average during the price adjustment process, i.e., by historical averages of supply and demand. Moreover, a global rate of convergence is obtained. We endow our algorithm with decentralized prices by introducing the trade design with price initiative of producers. The latter suggests that producers settle and update their individual prices, and consumers buy at the lowest purchase price.     

Rollover risk and endogenous network dynamics

Using a dynamic network formation model, solved numerically, we study banks’ rollover decisions. We find that when the existence of linkages between market participants generates an informational externality, the newly formed network is conditioned by past architectures. Moreover, this inertia is strongly dependent on macroeconomic conditions, such as investors’ risk appetite. Simulations show that for intermediate values of the risk appetite’s parameter the financial network exhibits tipping points, i.e., the inability to maintain a threshold number of linkages may push the market into a gridlock. In this context, we study also how policy instruments, such as taxes and subsidies, affects debt rollover. Since a reduction in the policy level plays the same role as an improvement in economic fundamentals, the creation of interbank connections can be stimulated by it. Thus, in order to restart lending after a major stress situation in the interbank market a considerable reduction in the policy level is required, advising a counter-cyclical policy similar to the ones recently proposed with respect to capital requirements.     

基于供应链视角的政府扶贫效率研究

在电商扶贫中,政府常采用农业技术推广、政府采购、投入补贴三种农业帮扶模式,何种方式更有效是一个非常重要的问题。本文基于供应链视角,使用主从博弈模型对比分析供应链成员的决策行为,之后从农户收益最大化角度分析政府扶贫的效率,并讨论应用情景。结果表明:政府进行基础设施建设与农业帮扶均可提高农户收入;消费者的扶贫偏好会增加农产品价格与农户利润,且能够提高三种帮扶模式的效率;农户投入成本较小时,投入补贴模式扶贫效率最高,而农技推广与政府采购模式更稳定,在农户投入成本较高时更有效;政府资金有限时,投入补贴模式效率最高,当资金量中等时,农技推广模式效率最高,若资金比较充裕,则政府采购模式较为有效。     

低碳供应链纵向减排合作下的政府补贴策略

为了研究低碳供应链减排合作的政府补贴问题,分别构建了在纳什博弈、斯塔克尔伯格博弈和供应链集中决策三种不同的博弈关系下,政府对制造商和零售商合作减排投入进行补贴的博弈模型。分析了企业的最优减排成本投入和政府的最优补贴率,并进一步讨论了政府补贴行为和企业选择减排合作行为之间的互动博弈。研究显示:政府提供的减排补贴和企业的收益随着供应链上下游合作的紧密程度不同而不同,在纳什博弈下最高,在集中决策下最低,斯塔克尔伯格博弈下介于两者之间。比较了力量不对等供应链中企业分别处于领导者和跟随者时获得的政府补贴的差异。同时在政府补贴行为和供应链企业合作行为的交互博弈中,政府的最优策略是不对任何一方实行减排补贴。     

On the multiplicity of solutions in generation capacity investment models with incomplete markets: a risk-averse stochastic equilibrium approach

Investment in generation capacity has traditionally been evaluated by computing the present value of cashflows accruing from new equipment in a market with globally optimized capacity mix. The competition and risk that now prevail in the sector may require a more refined analysis. We consider a competitive market with agents investing in some mix of capacities: the risk exposure of a plant and the attitude towards risk of the owner depend on the plant and the portfolio of its capacities. They may also depend on hedging contracts acquired by the investor on the market if such contracts exist. We represent these effects through equilibrium models of generation capacity in incomplete markets. The models come in different versions depending on the portfolio of physical plants and hedging contracts. These modify the long-term risk of the plants, the attitude of the owners towards risk, and hence the incentive to invest. The models involve risk-averse producers and consumers, and their behavior is represented by convex risk measures. We use degree theory to prove existence and explore multiplicity of equilibrium solutions.     

Two-level periodic marketing networks without market news

A model is constructed for a two-level periodic marketing network wherein traders buy goods from farmers in a number of spatially separated markets and transport them to urban centers for sale to consumers. It is assumed that there is no market news dissemination. As a result, market disturbances are transmitted throughout the network at a rate limited by the trading activity. Moreover, distant markets may even be isolated from local disturbances. This model possesses one and only one equilibrium state. That equilibrium state is asymptotically stable if the slopes of the various supply and demand functions are sufficiently restricted in the vicinity of the equilibrium state.     

低碳经济下政企博弈与政府补贴策略研究

在低碳经济的背景下,研究了政府补贴策略对政企博弈关系及企业决策行为的影响。通过引入两阶段动态博弈的方法,深入分析了不同政府补贴模式对需求量、产品价格、制造商的收益、消费者剩余以及社会福利所产生的影响。研究表明,价格对需求的影响系数以及政府补贴消费者对需求的影响系数等因素会影响政府补贴策略的选择,并得出了不同政府补贴策略下消费者剩余、制造商收益以及社会福利与单位产品补贴额的关系,本文为政府科学制定补贴政策以及在政府补贴背景下制造商和消费者应采取何种应对策略提供一定的决策支持。     

消费者连续统集合下一种投入产出经济的均衡和一般均衡价格

本给出了一个经济模型把跨期间的一般均衡理论和neo-Ricardian的生产价格理论联系起来，并改进了Roce-Anne Oana模型[1][2]。即把消费有限改变消费连续统，并在Rose-Anne Dana模型的基础上，加了条件C.4和C.7，得出了两个重要的结果：（1）在标准条件下，此模型有一均衡使得每一个生产的每期最大利润是相等的；（2）如考虑生产价格是稳定价格；且等于最大利润；则在适当的条件下，这样的价格系统是存在且唯一的，而所定义的均衡的非折扣的价格序列收敛于生产价格。因此均衡价格依赖于技术和消费特征，但在取极限时，有关价格仅依赖于技术。     

A computational consumer-driven market model: statistical properties and the underlying industry dynamics

We present an agent-based market model in which social emulation by consumers and the adaptation of producers to demand play a significant role. Our theoretical approach considers boundedly-rational agents, heterogeneity of agents and product characteristics, and the co-evolution of consumers’ desires and firms’ adaptation efforts. The model reproduces, and allows us to interpret, statistical regularities which have been observed in the evolution of industrial sectors, and that seem to be also significant in the case of discretionary consumption activities. Thus, we suggest new determinants and explanations (from the consumer-side) for these stylized facts, and we obtain new theoretical patterns which may be of help to better understand the dynamics of discretionary goods markets. This model and results may contribute to guide future research on the field of consumer market.     

中国银行业市场竞争结构测度:基于Bresnahan范式研究

自从金融体系改革在中国开展以来,我国银行业的市场结构和竞争程度发生了巨大的变化。本文基于一般市场均衡理论框架对Bresnahan范式进行修正,采用1995-2004年间14家商业银行的数据建立panel data模型,对我国银行业的竞争结构进行测度。结果表明:1995-2004年期间,我国银行业处于较为明显的垄断竞争市场结构,比较1995-1998年和1999-2004年分析结果可以看出,我国银行业的竞争趋势渐强;4家国有商业银行之间具备高竞争程度的垄断竞争市场结构特征,10家股份制商业银行之间的竞争程度明显低于国有商业银行之间的竞争程度。