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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Capacity investment"”.
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Capacity Investment, Flexibility, and Product Substitution/Complementarity under Demand Uncertainty
… of the relationship between optimal capacity and the degree of product substitution/complementarity under price/production postponement, considering different business practices (holdback versus clearance, negative price policies) and different demand models. Specifically, we consider …
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Managing Uncertainty in Capacity Investment, Revenue Management, and Supply Chain Coordination
… in the context of different settings, including capacity investment, revenue management, and supply chain coordination. These problems share one characteristic in common: decision postponement, and as such, are all modeled as two-stage stochastic programming problems. In the first stage, a set of …
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Fueling an Energy Transition: Designing an Optimal Portfolio of Competing Fuels Under Uncertainty
… the energy transition, firms must allocate their investment between incumbent and emerging fuel capacity. Understanding how to pace investment between competing energy options during this transition is crucial for energy companies and policymakers. Allocating investments among competing fuel …
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Comparative Statics Analysis of Some Operations Management Problems
… of operations management problems on the capacity investment decision and the influenza (flu) vaccine composition decision. Our approach involves exploiting the properties of the underlying mathematical models, and linking those properties to the concept of stochastic orders relationship. …
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Modeling Competition and Investment in Liberalized Electricity Markets
… on electricity wholesale markets, and network investments and incentive regulation. The former is studied based on the case of the German electricity market with respect to ex-post market power analysis and ex-ante remedy development. First an optimization model is designed to obtain the …
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Essays In Finance And Macroeconomics
… in the future with new debt issuances and risky investments. Creditors intervene upon violations of covenant restrictions and restructure the debt without ex ante commitment. My quantitative analysis suggests that financial covenants significantly increase debt capacity, investment and ex ante …
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Trade in Renewable Energy Commodities among Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership Countries: An Exploratory Study
… energy commodities trade on renewable energy investments. It employs a two-step stochastic frontier analysis (SFA) to investigate and decompose the technical efficiency of investments in renewable energy electricity generation capacity. By using panel data consisting of 14 countries from 2004 …
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Trade in Renewable Energy Commodities among Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership Countries: An Exploratory Study
… energy commodities trade on renewable energy investments. It employs a two-step stochastic frontier analysis (SFA) to investigate and decompose the technical efficiency of investments in renewable energy electricity generation capacity. By using panel data consisting of 14 countries from 2004 …
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Optimal Investment Strategies for Flexible Resources, Considering Pricing and Correlated Demands
We study the resource investment decision faced by a firm that offers two demand-classes (i.e., products, services), while incorporating the firm's pricing decision into the investment decision. For this purpose, we consider a monopolistic situation and model the demand curve of each demand-class …
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Analysis of the Benefits of Resource Flexibility, Considering Different Flexibility Structures
… of the firm's pricing strategy on its resource investment decision, considering a partially flexible resource. Secondly, we study the benefits of a flexible resource strategic approach, considering a resource flexibility structure that has not been studied in the previous literature. First, we …
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Asymptotic Analysis and Performance-based Design of Large Scale Service and Inventory Systems
… using vehicles. Designs of these systems require capacity decisions, e.g., the number of vehicles. In my dissertation, I use many-server and conventional heavy-traffic limit theory to derive asymptotically optimal capacity decisions, giving the desired level of delay and availability performance …
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Performance Analysis of Contract for Options
… with uncertain spot price, limited supplier capacity, and where the manufacturer must fulfill the stochastic demand of a downstream supply-chain link in full. I model the contract negotiation as a two-stage Stackelberg game in which the supplier is the leader. I derive a closed-form …
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Sparse flexibility structures: Design and application
… response times without enquiring additional capacity investment. The challenge is to effectively design a flexibility structure with a good performance, but with small implementation cost.We first introduce the concept of a??graph expandera??, which is widely used in graph theory, computer …
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Capacity and Operational Performance Optimization under External Constraints with Uncertainty
… to supply global energy markets. The transport capacity investment problem is studied in terms of a mixed integer nonlinear model to maximize a single firm's profit. Using a proposed heuristic algorithm, the model determines the optimal number and size of tankers to deliver a single product …
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Supply chain design : capacity, flexibility and wholesale price strategies
… design of certain supply chain features, namely capacity, flexibility and wholesale price schedules. Firstly, this dissertation studies capacity investments in single-product supply chains in which the participants make investments to maximize their individual expected profits. Using a stylized …
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Four Essays on Applied Energy Economics and Policy
… parts. The first part (chapters 1 and 2) studies capacity payments in the electricity sector. The second part (chapter 3 and 4) is on gasoline retail markets. The first chapter explores welfare implications of capacity markets in the electricity sector. We propose a theoretical model with cost …
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The Impact of Environmental Policies and Innovation on the Investment in and Use of Natural Gas-Fired Combined Cycle Generators in the US Electricity Sector
… the largest short-term increase in generation capacity in history, with over 70% of this new capacity installed as NGCC. Initially, much of the new NGCC capacity only provided power when energy demand was at its highest. Since 2003, NGCC utilization has nearly doubled, and NGCC is increasingly …
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Essays in operations management
… mixed integer program to support the company's capacity plan. We conclude with in sights provided to the firm and managerial insights for optimal customer order portfolios.</p> <p>In the third essay, we focus on the economic benefit of profound technology projects as milestones are achieved. …