With the rapid development of the Internet, many retailers and individuals nowadays use this technology to engage in direct e-retailing sales. In this article, we investigate the value of demand-forecast information sharing in a manufacturer-e-retailer supply chain. The value of market information depends not only on its accuracy, but also on the e-retailer’s market power and the product’s Web ...

We study the problem of computing equilibrium prices in a Fisher market with linear utilities and linear single-constraint production units. This setting naturally appears in ad pricing where the sum of the lengths of the displayed ads is constrained not to exceed the available ad space. There are three approaches to solve market equilibrium problems: convex programming, auction-based algorithm...

Conservation policy and practice is increasingly turning towards market-based interventions to reconcile the growing conflicts between environmental conservation and rural livelihood needs. This short introductory paper to the special issue on ‘‘market-oriented conservation governance’’ critically investigates the growing commitment to markets as a means of meeting conservation objectives and l...

In 2005, Chekitan Dev and Don Schultz introduced the customer focused marketing mix (SIVA) in Marketing Management. SIVA was presented as an alternative approach to McCarthy’s classic business orientated marketing mix popularly known as the 4Ps. SIVA and 4Ps are presented here as a complementary mechanisms to shape marketing practice through considering the needs of the customer within the cons...

Impulse buying accounts for a large proportion of consumer shopping behavior in the bricks-and-mortar retail market. Online retailers also expect to profit from impulse buying. It is therefore interesting and beneficial to investigate the design elements of online stores and the sales promotion stimuli that eretailers can use to either arouse consumers’ desire or decrease their self-control to ...

This paper investigates how incentives of network operators to deviate from neutrality may create social costs or benefits in different market structures. The deviation from network neutrality is a general form of discrimination based on charging different prices for non-affiliated content and application providers. In this paper, deviation from network neutrality is formulated as a form of ver...

The market enthusiasm generated around investment in CRM technology is in stark contrast to the naysaying by many academic and business commentators. This raises an important research question concerning the extent to which companies should continue to invest in building a CRM capability. Drawing on field interviews and a survey of senior executives, the results reveal that a superior CRM capab...

We examine using the Stochastic Grid Bundling Method (SGBM) to price a Bermudan swaption driven by a one-factor LIBOR Market Model (LMM). Using a wellknown approximation formula from the finance literature, we implement SGBM with one basis function and show that it is around six times faster than the equivalent Longstaff–Schwartz method. The two methods agree in price to one basis point, and th...

The paper presents recent developments in Morfeusz – a morphological analyser for Polish. The program, being already a fundamental resource for processing Polish, has been reimplemented with some important changes in the tagset, some new options, added information on proper names, and ability to perform simple prefix derivation. The present version of Morfeusz (including its dictionaries) is ma...

In this study, we examine the distributional effects of research versus consumer promotion. A few years ago, a notable article by Wohlgenant (AJAE 75, 1993) investigated this issue and concluded that producers would benefit more from research on farm-level production than from research on marketing services and promotion. His findings have drawn important policy implications for the allocation ...