Publications associées à Commerce de détail

Essays on the Economics of Innovation: Incentives, Diffusion, and Disparity

As an important policy instrument for guiding innovation, the patent system involves a long-standing tension between creating economic rewards for the original innovators and stifling subsequent R&D activities. The availability of new data allows us to pro ...

EPFL2021

High-Frequency Jump Analysis of the Bitcoin Market

Christopher Trevisan, Adrien Treccani

We use the database leak of Mt. Gox exchange to analyze the dynamics of the price of bitcoin from June 2011 to November 2013. This gives us a rare opportunity to study an emerging retail-focused, highly speculative and unregulated market with trader identi ...

OXFORD UNIV PRESS2020

Product assortment and space allocation strategies to attract loyal and non-loyal customers

Ralf Seifert, Anna Timonina-Farkas, Argyro Katsifou

Assortment planning deserves much attention from practitioners and academics due to its direct impact on retailers' commercial success. In this paper we focus on the increasingly popular retail practice to use combined product assortments with both "standa ...

2020

Recombinant Proteins for Industrial versus Pharmaceutical Purposes: A Review of Process and Pricing

Florian Maria Wurm

Recombinant proteins have been produced for over 30 years. Applications range from enzymes used in laundry detergents to antigen-detecting antibodies in cancer therapy. Despite similarities in manufacturing, drastic differences in retail pricing between re ...

2019

Optimization of sample size and order size in an inventory model with quality inspection and return of defective items

Naoufel Cheikhrouhou, Rafael Batista

To ensure all products as perfect, inspection is essential, even though it is not possible to inspect all products after producing them like some special type products as plastic joint for the water pipe. In this direction, this paper develops an inventory ...

SPRINGER2018

Scale-adaptive media item segmentation technique

Radhakrishna Achanta

The present invention concerns a method of segmenting a media item comprising media elements. The method comprises: selecting a first seed media element for a first cluster of media elements, referred to hereinafter as a first adaptel; selecting a second s ...

2017

Improving firm performance through sustainable operations

Mervegül Kirci

As concerns over environmental sustainability rise, corporations must extend their efforts to improve their environmental performance while at the same time realizing economic growth. The endeavor represents challenges on both strategic and operational fro ...

EPFL2017

The Vanishing Hand: Efficient Market Design for Future Power Systems

Anjali Devi Vanapilli Nursimulu

Transition to low-carbon power systems is in progress, fuelled by policy-driven accelerated deployment of new renewable electricity generation technologies (wind and solar), smart electrification, prosumerisation and digitisation. Largely occurring against ...

2016

A two-stage stochastic programming approach to employee scheduling in retail outlets with uncertain demand

Colin Neil Jones

This paper describes an employee scheduling system for retail outlets; it is a constraint-based system that exploits forecasts and stochastic techniques to generate schedules meeting the demand for sales personnel. Uncertain scenarios due to fluctuating de ...

Elsevier2015

Joint product assortment, inventory and price optimization to attract loyal and non-loyal customers

Ralf Seifert, Argyro Katsifou, Jean-Sébastien Tancrez

In this paper, we analyze the emerging retail practice of carrying a combined product assortment consisting of both regular "standard" products and more fashionable and short-lived "special" products. The purpose of this practice is to increase store traff ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2014