Motivated by the emergence of popular service-based two-sided markets where sellers can serve multiple buyers at same time, we formulate and study cost sharing problem. In sharing, incur different costs for serving subsets have values being served sellers. Both are self-interested agents whose private information. We problem from perspective an intermediary platform that matches to assigns pric...

This paper performs a forensic analysis of Apple's transfer pricing cost sharing arrangement based on facts and documents that were disclosed in hearings before the U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee Investigations May 2013 an investigation arrangements by European Commission between 2016 as part its State Aid investigation, related court filings Europe other sources. The finds Apple provided c...

The aim of this paper is to develop an optimization model for quality improvement by considering quality investment in rework policies and supply chain profit sharing. To improve product’s quality, the decision of process target and its tolerance is important since it directly affects the defective rate, manufacturing cost, and loss to customer due to the deviation of product from its specifica...