Sloan Working Papers: Recent submissions

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    • To Wave Or Not To Wave? Order Release Policies for Warehouses with an Automated Sorter 

      Gallien, Jérémie; Weber, Théophane (Cambridge, MA; Alfred P. Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008-09-08)
      Wave-based release policies are prevalent in warehouses with an automated sorter, and take different forms depending on how much waves overlap and whether the sorter is split for operating purposes. Waveless release is ...

    • Contingent Claims Analysis and Life-Cycle Finance 

      Bodie, Zvi; Ruffino, Doriana; Treussard, Jonathan (Cambridge, MA; Alfred P. Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008-01-10)
      This paper explores the application of contingent claims analysis (CCA) to two "hot" issues in life-cycle finance: (1) investing for retirement and (2) deciding when, if ever, to switch careers. Participants in individual ...

    • A Fire Sale without Fire: An Explanation of Labor-Intensive FDI in China 

      Zhang, Yifan; Yang, Zhi; Ma, Yue; Huang, Yasheng (Cambridge, MA; Alfred P. Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008-08-01)
      Using a large firm-level panel dataset from the Chinese National Bureau of Statistics, we examine the effect of financial distortions on FDI inflows in China's labor-intensive industries. Following Whited and Wu (2006), ...