Sloan Working Papers: Recent submissions

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    • Provably Near-Optimal LP-Based Policies for Revenue Management in Systems with Reusable Resources 

      Levi, Retsef; Radovanovic, Ana (Cambridge, MA; Alfred P. Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Instititue of Technology, 2008-02-07)
      Motivated by emerging applications in workforce management, we consider a class of revenue management problems in systems with reusable resources. The corresponding applications are modeled using the well-known loss network ...

    • Do Short Sellers Front-Run Insider Sales? 

      Khan, Mozaffar; Lu, Hai (Cambridge, MA; Alfred P. Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008-06-03)
      We find evidence of significant increases in short sales immediately prior to large insider sales, consistent with information leakage and front-running. We examine a number of alternative explanations that the increase ...

    • Handling Resource Oscillations Through Selective Misinformation 

      Klein, Mark; Metzler, Richard; Bar-Yam, Yaneer (Cambridge, MA; Alfred P. Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008-06-02)
      When resource consumers select among competing providers based on delayed information, inefficient oscillations in resource utilization can emerge. This paper describes an approach, based on selective stochastic resource ...