In recent years, car-sharing systems have been announced as a way to increase mobility and to decrease the number of single-occupant vehicles, congestion, and air pollution in many parts of the world. This study presents a linear programming model to optimize one-way car-sharing systems for electric cars considering the depreciation costs of chargers and vehicles as well as relocation cost of v...

When everyone is required to pay the same out-of-pocket amount for health care services whose benefits depend on patient characteristics, there is enormous potential for both underand overuse. Unlike most current health plan designs, Value-Based Insurance Design (VBID) explicitly acknowledges and responds to patient heterogeneity. It encourages the use of services when the clinical benefits exc...

The joint green R&D of suppliers and manufacturers the marketing directly affect degree products. Based on this, this paper establishes a coordination decision-making model innovation basis cost-sharing contracts to stimulate supply chain partnerships, studies efforts investment decisions secondary composed single supplier manufacturer under different leadership scenarios, as well relations...

It is well-known that there is no cost-sharing mechanism that is budget balanced, efficient, and dominant strategy incentive compatible (DSIC). The Vickrey auction is DSIC and efficient, but raises surplus revenue. In an environment where players have constant marginal values, we introduce the subsidized Vickrey auction (SVA) that uses surplus revenue to offset some of the production costs. By ...