Strategic commitment to price to stimulate downstream innovation in a supply chain

It is generally in a firm’s interest for its supply chain partners to invest in innovations. To the extent that these innovations either reduce the partners’ variable costs or stimulate demand for the end product, they will tend to lead to higher levels of output for all of the firms in the chain. However, in response to the innovations of its partners, a firm may have an incentive to opportunistically increase its own prices. The possibility of such opportunistic behavior creates a hold-up problem that leads supply chain partners to underinvest in innovation. Clearly, this hold-up problem could be eliminated by a pre-commitment to price. However, by making an advance commitment to price, a firm sacrifices an important means of responding to demand uncertainty. In this paper we examine the trade-off that is faced when a firm’s channel partner has opportunities to invest in either cost reduction or quality improvement, i.e. demand enhancement. Should it commit to a price in order to encourage innovation, or should it remain flexible in order to respond to demand uncertainty. We discuss several simple wholesale pricing mechanisms with respect to this trade-off.     

电工学中交变电流一些难点释疑

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发电厂电气部分课程的工学一体化教学改革探索与实践

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广西大学安全工程专业教学改革探讨

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关于如何办好我院安全工程专业的几点思考

为办好安全工程专业，应尽快成立该专业的建设指导委员会，围绕社会需求确定人才培养方案，加强专业建设和学科建设，同时要与建设高水平的安全生产基地相结合，做到相互促进，共同发展。     

都匀阶地土的承载特性研究

分析了阶地的形成与土层序列阶地土的判属以及持力层和承载。     

基坑支护中土压力主、被动区的互换分析

以太原市某工程为例，从实际的基坑设计中得出，基坑支护中土压力设计值一般都比实际值偏大；支护桩周围的土压力的主动区、被动区并不是一成不变的。提出用位移分析的土压力模型来区分实际工程中的主、被动区，而后进行土体受力定量的分析。     

理工科院校法学专业走出就业困境之策略探析

经过几年的扩招之后，各理工科院校培养出的法学专业毕业生已经开始陆续走向市场，从各理工科院校所统计的数据来看，法学专业毕业生的就业问题已显得十分突出。突出法学教育在理工科院校的专业特色，多方面强化学生的实践能力是理工科院校法学专业走出就业困境的必由之路。各理工科院校应理性地面对目前的艰难与困境，充分依据各自的资源来追求自己在法学教育上的比较优势。     

The <Emphasis Type="Italic">M</Emphasis>/<Emphasis Type="Italic">G</Emphasis>/∞ system revisited: finiteness,summability, long range dependence,and reverse engineering

We explore M/G/∞ systems ‘fed’ by Poissonian inflows with infinite arrival rates. Three processes – corresponding to the system's state, workload, and queue-size – are studied and analyzed. Closed form formulae characterizing the system's stationary structure and correlation structure are derived. And, the issues of queue finiteness, workload summability, and Long Range Dependence are investigated. We then turn to devise a ‘reverse engineering’ scheme for the design of the system's correlation structure. Namely: how to construct an M/G/∞ system with a pre-desired ‘target’ workload/queue auto-covariance function. The ‘reverse engineering’ scheme is applied to various examples, including ones with infinite queues and non-summable workloads. AMS Subject Classifications Primary: 60K25; Secondary: 60G55, 60G10