Browsing by Affiliation of Duke Author(s) "Fuqua School of Business"
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A National Decision Point: Effective Testing and Screening for Covid-19
(2020-09-09)This Duke-Margolis report out provides a framework for public health officials and community leaders in schools, businesses and other institutions on how to use Covid-19 screening test strategies to operate safely and prevent ... -
A soft robust model for optimization under ambiguity
(Operations Research, 2010-07-01)In this paper, we propose a framework for robust optimization that relaxes the standard notion of robustness by allowing the decision maker to vary the protection level in a smooth way across the uncertainty set. We apply ... -
A Strategic Model of Magical Thinking: Axioms and Analysis
(Economic Research Initiatives at Duke (ERID) Working Paper, 2014-09-26)This paper seeks to make two contributions. First, we propose and analyze a tractable model of strategic play in which players behave as if their expectations about their opponents' behavior vary with their own choices. ... -
Analysis and Comparison of Queues with Different Levels of Delay Information.
(2007)Information about delays can enhance service quality in many industries. Delay information can take many forms, with different degrees of precision. Different levels of information have different effects on customers and ... -
Betting on Better Drug Trials to Beat Covid-19
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"Call for prices": Strategic implications of raising consumers' costs
(Marketing Science, 2010-01-01)Many consumer durable retailers often do not advertise their prices and instead ask consumers to call them for prices. It is easy to see that this practice increases the consumers' cost of learning the prices of products ... -
Collusive Investments in Technological Compatibility: Lessons from U.S. Railroads in the Late 19th Century
<jats:p> Collusion is widely condemned for its negative effects on consumer welfare and market efficiency. In this paper, I show that collusion may also in some cases facilitate the creation of unexpected new sources of ... -
Competing manufacturers in a retail supply chain: On contractual form and coordination
(Management Science, 2010-03-01)It is common for a retailer to sell products from competing manufacturers. How then should the firms manage their contract negotiations? The supply chain coordination literature focuses either on a single manufacturer selling ... -
Competition and Cooperation in a Two-Stage Supply Chain with Demand Forecasts.
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Confidence risk and asset prices
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Covid Shows the Need for a Diagnostic Stockpile
(Wall Street journal (Eastern ed.), 2020-07-26) -
COVID-19 Health Care Response and Resilience Program
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COVID-19 Manufacturing for Monoclonal Antibodies
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Creativity Under Fire: The Effects of Competition on Creative Production
(The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2020-06)<jats:p> Though fundamental to innovation and essential to many industries and occupations, individual creativity has received limited attention as an economic behavior and has historically proven difficult to study. This ...