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Business
Jihyun Eum
Summary: The study found that the impact of renminbi depreciation on Korean exports depends on the competitive level and complementarity with Chinese products. Additionally, the negative effects decrease when Korean export products have higher quality compared to Chinese products.
EMERGING MARKETS FINANCE AND TRADE
(2022)
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Engineering, Manufacturing
Vashkar Ghosh, Anand Paul, Lingjiong Zhu
Summary: Efficient inventory management is essential in retail operations, especially when facing a variety of product options. This study analyzes the optimal stocking policy for a retailer with a single product but multiple variants, considering stochastic demand and consumer choice dynamics. The research develops a benchmark model to simplify the analysis, connecting optimal stocking levels with the newsvendor quantities. Through dynamic Monte Carlo simulations, the study further explores the impact of different performance measures on the effectiveness of the optimal policy.
PRODUCTION AND OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT
(2022)
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Management
Xin Geng, Xiaomeng Guo, Guang Xiao
Summary: The study reveals that social interactions lead to lower prices and intensified competition, with the market-expansion effect benefiting consumers and social welfare, while the value-enhancement effect favors high-quality firms and harms low-quality firms, reducing consumer monetary surplus.
MANAGEMENT SCIENCE
(2022)
Article
Mathematics
Nahid Masoudi
Summary: As consumers become more environmentally conscious, the location and prices of greener companies shift to the right, while the response of less green companies is non-monotonic.
Article
Business
Dominique Olie Lauga, Elie Ofek, Zsolt Katona
Summary: This article examines the conditions under which firms will differentiate themselves from rivals through product quality versus advertising intensity. The authors find that when advertising is not cost effective, both firms choose light advertising to minimally differentiate in quality. When advertising is moderately cost effective, one firm spends heavily on advertising, while the rival advertises lightly, inducing the heavy advertiser to price high more often. When advertising is very cost effective, both firms advertise heavily and differentiate in quality.
JOURNAL OF MARKETING RESEARCH
(2022)
Article
Business
Jie Wei, Meijing Chang, Jing Zhao
Summary: Showrooming is a threat to traditional retailers, where customers assess products in stores but buy them from online retailers at lower prices. To combat this, many retailers have implemented price matching. In response, online retailers have started selling differentiated products to weaken the advantage of showrooming. A duopoly game is constructed to study the profitability of product differentiation and price matching, showing that differentiation benefits online retailers when their product is more popular, but can also be successful when their product is less popular if price matching is involved.
JOURNAL OF RETAILING AND CONSUMER SERVICES
(2023)
Article
Automation & Control Systems
Marco Bortolini, Francesca Calabrese, Francesco Gabriele Galizia, Alberto Regattieri
Summary: Delayed product differentiation (DPD) is a hybrid production strategy that overcomes the limitations of make to stock (MTS) and make to order (MTO) by using product platforms. The design and assessment of these platforms in high-variety manufacturing require efficient algorithms. This paper proposes a two-step methodology using a modified algorithm for solving the longest common subsequence (LCS) problem and k-medoids clustering to identify the platform structure and assign variants. The platforms are then assessed against industrial and market metrics.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ADVANCED MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Economics
Paul L. E. Grieco, Charles Murry, Ali Yurukoglu
Summary: This article constructs measures of industry performance and welfare in the U.S. automobile market from 1980 to 2018. The study finds that although real prices rose, markups decreased substantially and the fraction of total surplus accruing to consumers increased. This can be attributed to improved product quality and production technology.
QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS
(2023)
Article
Management
Xinping Wang, Shengnan Sun
Summary: This study examines two pricing policies for supply disruption in a supply chain, finding that the effectiveness of market-chasing pricing policy depends on competitive power, and profit-chasing pricing policy helps reduce profit loss. Firms can reduce prices of both disrupted and undisrupted products to minimize market share loss, but only need to reduce price of disrupted product to minimize profit loss.
INTERNATIONAL TRANSACTIONS IN OPERATIONAL RESEARCH
(2021)
Article
Engineering, Manufacturing
Aleksandra Magdalena Staskiewicz, Lars Hvam, Anders Haug
Summary: This paper presents a transparent method for reducing stock-keeping units (SKU) that links internal variety with external variety and integrates it with supply chain processes. Applied in a large international company manufacturing hearing aids, the method achieved a 33% reduction in SKU variants at the module/component level while maintaining product variety for customers.
CIRP JOURNAL OF MANUFACTURING SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Engineering, Manufacturing
Loris Battistello, Anders Haug, Alexandria Trattner, Lars Hvam
Summary: This paper discusses the challenges faced by industrial companies in increasing product variety to meet customer demands, identifies barriers to reducing product variety, and introduces a new type of barrier related to culture and personality through a case study.
CIRP JOURNAL OF MANUFACTURING SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
(2021)
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Business, Finance
Jason Roderick Donaldson, Giorgia Piacentino, Anjan Thakor
Summary: In a model based on differences in funding costs, banks and nonbank intermediaries coexist. Banks' low cost of capital due to safety nets creates a soft-budget-constraint problem, while nonbanks' higher cost allows them to commit to terminate funding. This dynamic leads to coexistence of both types of institutions in the market equilibrium.
JOURNAL OF FINANCE
(2021)
Article
Economics
Daniel Hoercher, Daniel J. Graham
Summary: This paper discusses the desirability of running multiple public transport services (such as buses and trains) under public ownership along a transport corridor, when these modes are imperfect substitutes. With a focus on welfare-oriented public transport provision, the paper applies the theory of product differentiation and argues that modal variety can be beneficial for society if consumer preferences are widely spread and scale economies in service provision are limited. The argument is supported by theory and exemplified through an agent-based simulation model.
JOURNAL OF TRANSPORT ECONOMICS AND POLICY
(2022)
Article
Economics
Nathan Schiff, Jacob Cosman, Tianran Dai
Summary: This study uses a longitudinal dataset of over 550,000 New York City restaurant menus to examine the impact of new competition on restaurants in a large market with differentiated products. By comparing treated restaurants facing a nearby entrant to control restaurants, the study finds no evidence that restaurants respond differently to new competition in terms of price and product adjustments. However, restaurants in areas with many new competitors are 22% more likely to exit after a year compared to restaurants in areas with the least entry.
JOURNAL OF URBAN ECONOMICS
(2023)
Article
Economics
Lin Liu, X. Henry Wang
Summary: Anderson and Renault (1999) demonstrate a U-shaped relationship between firms' equilibrium prices and product differentiation. Using a simultaneous search model with partial depth, they show that this relationship emerges or vanishes when search depth is fixed or chosen by consumers.
Article
Business
Ye Hu, Ming Chen, Sam Hui
Summary: This study examines the differences in sentiments expressed on Facebook and YouTube through social media comments on movie trailers. The findings show that Facebook comments are less likely to involve sentiments, but when sentiments are expressed, they tend to be more positive compared to YouTube comments. Additionally, both platforms are more likely to have sentiment expressions after a movie's release, and the sentiment gap between Facebook and YouTube diminishes after the release. The study proposes a behavioral explanation based on network structure and social desirability bias, and demonstrates the significant association between cross-platform sentiment divergence and box office revenue.
Article
Business
Charlotte R. Ren, Ye Hu, Tony H. Cui
STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT JOURNAL
(2019)
Article
Business
Rex Yuxing Du, Ye Hu, Sina Damangir
JOURNAL OF MARKETING
(2015)
Article
Business
Ye Hu, Rex Yuxing Du, Sina Damangir
JOURNAL OF MARKETING RESEARCH
(2014)
Review
Business
Ye Hu, Xinxin Li
JOURNAL OF INTERACTIVE MARKETING
(2011)
Article
Business
Son K. Lam, Michael Ahearne, Ye Hu, Niels Schillewaert
JOURNAL OF MARKETING
(2010)
Article
Business
Ye Hu, Xin Wang
JOURNAL OF RETAILING
(2010)
Article
Business
Ye Hu, Leonard M. Lodish, Abba M. Krieger, Babak Hayati
JOURNAL OF ADVERTISING RESEARCH
(2009)
Article
Business
Ye Hu, Leonard M. Lodish, Abba M. Krieger
JOURNAL OF ADVERTISING RESEARCH
(2007)