Analysis of optimum informational support for sales channels during product launches

Reliability or Inventory? Contracting Strategies for After-Sales Product Support

Traditional sourcing arrangements for after-sales support of capital-intensive products such as airplanes, weapons systems, and manufacturing equipment have centered around physical assets. Typically, customers would pay the supplier of maintenance and repair services (usually the product manufacturer) for the resources, such as spare parts, that were needed to maintain the products. In recent ...

Global Pricing Strategies for Pharmaceutical Product Launches

analysis of ruin probability for insurance companies using markov chain

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Informational Channels of Financial Contagion

Two main classes of channels have been studied as informational sources of financial contagion. One is a fundamental channel that is based on real and financial links between economies, and the second is a social learning channel that arises when agents base their decisions on noisy observations about the actions of agents in foreign markets. Using global games, I present a two country model of...

Optimizing Product Launches in the Presence of Strategic Consumers

A technology firm launches newer generations of a given product over time. At any moment, the firm decides whether to release a new version of the product that captures the current technology level at the expense of a fixed launch cost. Consumers are forward-looking and purchase newer models only when it maximizes their own future discounted surpluses. We start by assuming that consumers have a...