This study divides the sales cycle of fresh agricultural products into two stages according to the features of fresh agricultural products, establishes two pricing strategies according to its sales and through constructing an centralized-control model of supply chain under the constraints of revenue sharing contract and through analyzing different prices in the two stages, it summarizes the sal...

In this paper, we consider the coordination issue on a supply chain when the firm on this chain tries to produce new products. By considering the risk of new products, three contracts, constant wholesale price contract, revenue sharing contract and linear quantity discount policy, are investigated.

A common proposition in welfare state research is that programs financed through dedicated payroll taxes tend to be more durable. This article examines American unemployment insurance ðUIÞ as an exception to this proposition. UI is a self-financed social insurance program whose benefits have been dismantled over time because of an inability to maintain a constant revenue base. The study first e...

You are a member of a six-person family medicine practice in a city with a population of one million people in the Midwest. Your practice is very busy, with most commercial patients coming from three major insurance payers in the city. About 60 percent of your practice is commercial and the remainder is largely Medicare. You have very little negotiating leverage with the insurance companies, an...

BACKGROUND The need to provide quality and equitable health services and protect populations from impoverishing health care costs has pushed universal health coverage (UHC) to the top of global health policy agenda. In many developing countries where the majority of the population works in the informal sector, there are critical debates over the best financing mechanisms to progress towards UHC...

We study how interactions between financing and investment decisions can shape firm boundaries in dynamic product markets. In particular, we model a new product market opportunity as a growth option and ask whether it is best exploited by a large incumbent firm (Integration) or by a separate, specialized firm (Non-Integration). Starting from a standard theoretical framework, in which value-maxi...

When an innovative product is introduced into the market, consumers are often uncertain about the product value. Over time they may learn the value of product. This paper studies the impact of consumer learning on the firms' marketing efforts and revenue sharing strategies in a supply chain that sells an innovative product to consumers over multiple periods. Both the supplier and the retailer c...

This study examines the incentives for content contribution in social media. we propose that exposure and reputation are the major incentives for contributors. Besides, as more and more social media web sites offer advertising-revenue sharing with some of their contributors, shared revenue provides an extra incentive for contributors who have joined revenue-sharing programs. we develop a dynami...

OBJECTIVES The objective of the present study was to evaluate how effective tobacco tax increase has been in increasing price of tobacco products and reducing tobacco consumption in the Gambia. In addition, it tests the hypothesis that tobacco tax revenue grows while tobacco consumption decreases as a result of tax and price increase. SETTING The study is designed at the macroeconomic level t...