Dual role of price and myopia in a marketing channel

In this paper we study a dynamic two-player channel where the manufacturer controls the wholesale price and the investment in quality and the retailer chooses the retail price. We consider that the retail price affects both the demand and the perceived quality of the brand and that its variations contribute to the building of an internal reference price. One of the model’s distinctive features is that it accounts for the two meanings of price, i.e., its classical objective measure of the cost of acquiring a particular quantity of the product, and its subjective roles as an assessment of the quality of the product and an evaluation of gains or losses (deal vs. sacrifice) resulting from buying a “cheap” or an “expensive” product. This dual computation is done with respect to the internal reference price.     

Investment in electricity networks with transmission switching

We consider the application of Dantzig-Wolfe decomposition to stochastic integer programming problems arising in the capacity planning of electricity transmission networks that have some switchable transmission elements. The decomposition enables a column-generation algorithm to be applied, which allows the solution of large problem instances. The methodology is illustrated by its application to a problem of determining the optimal investment in switching equipment and transmission capacity for an existing network. Computational tests on IEEE test networks with 73 nodes and 118 nodes confirm the efficiency of the approach.     

沪深300股指期货价格发现功能的实证分析

价格发现功能是股指期货的一项重要的经济功能.以股指期货与现货市场的相互关系作为出发点,以沪深300指数以及沪深300股指期货连续合约日收盘价数据作为研究对象,采用定性分析与实证分析相结合的手段,深入研究股指期货和现货市场间价格发现关系.     

股指期货的扩展“15分钟”交易影响分析

自2010年4月16日推出股指期货以来,我国借鉴了香港股指期货交易的时间模式,即每天在现货市场开盘前和收盘后的各扩展了15分钟交易时间。本文重点研究了我国股指期货在现货交易的前后各扩展的15分钟是否包含影响现货收益率的有用信息。采用价格加权贡献值测量表明股指期货在股市开市前的15分钟交易对价格发现更有显著作用。同时,对T.Hiraki,E.D.Maberly和N.Takezawa提出的模型进行改进,发现股指期货的15分钟效应对次交易日现货收益率有显著影响。     

竞争环境下多个损失规避零售商的 预先订购折扣合约研究

在展望理论框架下,考虑由多个存在竞争的损失规避型零售商和一个风险中性的供应商组成的供应链预先订购折扣合约问题,研究了供应商和零售商在预先订购折扣合约下的决策行为,研究表明,供应商通过预先订购折扣合约可以协调整个供应链.最后通过算例,分别得到了供应商和零售商在预先订购折扣合约下的最优决策行为以及能使得供应链达到协调的供应商的决策行为.     

具有产能和价格约束的单产品流网络均衡研究

针对制造商存在产能约束以及需求市场中存在限制性价格上限的情形,研究了由多个相互竞争制造商与面临随机市场需求的多个相互竞争零售商组成的供应链网络均衡问题。运用变分不等式理论,分别刻画了制造商、零售商以及需求市场的最优行为,建立了供应链网络均衡模型。利用求解变分不等式的对数二次逼近的预测校正法设计了网络均衡解的求解算法。结合算例分析了产能约束和限制性价格上限对网络均衡的影响。结果表明:当政府对竞争市场实行限制性价格上限时,将导致需求市场中的商品短缺,并造成制造商和零售商的总利润减少;当存在产能限制时,将导致无价格限制的商品均衡价格更高以及需求市场中商品短缺量更大。     

“运价”为负的运输模型计算机求解问题的处理

为解决一些计算机软件求解"运价"既有正值又有负值运输模型时"不可求解"的问题,本文采用"运价同额增减法"决策模型转换的方法,将原模型的"运价"全部转换为正值后再用计算机软件求解,并分别编写了EXCEL求解模板和求解程序对该方法的计算加以印证。结果表明,采用该方法求解得出的最优解(最优决策方案)与原模型求得的最优解完全一样,而最优值(最优决策效果)减去虚增(或加上虚减)的部分就是原模型的最优值。采用这种方法能成功地解决一些计算机软件"不可求解"的问题。     

分级加卸载硬岩短时蠕变特性实验研究

由单向抗压强度实验及8级加卸载短时蠕变实验,得到蠕变下限为27MPa的细砂岩试样典型的坚硬岩石脆性断裂特征.应力-应变等时曲线线性回归函数的相关系数均高于0.92,长期强度与瞬时强度之比达94.39%,证明细砂岩试样的整体蠕变特性不强.应力-轴向应变等时曲线线性回归函数的平均相关系数高出应力-径向应变等时曲线线性回归函数的平均相关系数3.92%,因此其轴向非线性蠕变特性相对于径向非线性蠕变特性更弱.随着时间延续,细砂岩试样的非线性蠕变特性总体服从负Gauss分布规律,具有明显的时间效应.随加载应力水平的提高,应力-轴向应变等时曲线和应力-径向应变等时曲线线性拟合函数的平均相关系数下降幅度分别为0.97%和0.67%,线性相关性普遍降低.所以细砂岩试样的非线性蠕变程度随加载应力水平的提高而提高,载荷效应明显.     

Incentive regulation and the change in productive efficiency in telecommunications in the United States

Incentive regulation has become an important regulatory tool in the telecommunications industry in the United States. The issue explored here is whether incentive regulation has resulted in an increase in productive efficiency. After providing an overview of the nature of incentive regulation, a methodology for measuring technical inefficiency and its change is introduced. This is a stochastic frontier production function approach reflecting technical inefficiency effects. The results of implementing this methodology suggest that in the production of interLATA billed access minutes for interstate calls, there was no change in technical efficiency, something that incentive regulation was specifically designed to enhance. Finally, an assessment of technical efficiency across individual LECs in the United States indicates considerable variability. Published in 2001 by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

二级线性价格控制问题的满意解的求解思路及实例

本文就文献 [1]对线性二级价格控制问题 (BLP) 2 研究的结果及文献 [2 ]提出的问题进行了进一步的讨论。用反例指出文 [1]求出的极点最优解是错的 ,以及一般的 (BL P) 2 问题求出的最优解 ,可能是下层决策者根本无法接受的。因此 ,本文提出 (BLP) 2 的求下层目标最优解的边界搜索法及在此基础上用多目标的观点来求 (BLP) 2 的满意解的思路及实例