Shu Hu

• Southwest Jiaotong University

Online platforms typically store multiple products in their warehouses, which often run out of space. Hence we are motivated to study how platforms can effectively allocate their limited warehouse capacity among different products. We establish a game-theoretic model to investigate the optimal warehouse capacity allocation strategy of a platform th...

This paper aims to understand the increasingly prevalent phenomenon of shoddy goods and help honest firms better cope with the unfair competition posed by shoddy goods producers. We develop a game-theoretic model to examine the interaction between an honest manufacturer of quality goods (the truth-teller) and an unscrupulous producer of shoddy good...

Applications of government subsidies to speed up consumer trade‐ins of used products can be commonly observed in practice. This paper studies the design of such trade‐in subsidy programs and aims to provide implementable insights for practice. In particular, we focus on two open problems in the literature, (i) how to optimally allocate the subsidy...

Firms usually offer trade-in programs to entice consumers to purchase next generation products. By considering the purchase behavior of both myopic consumers and strategic consumers, we propose a game-theoretic analytical model to determine the optimal price of the next generation products and the optimal trade-in rebate. We find that firm’s optima...

In this paper, we propose five typical contracts to coordinate decentralized reverse supply chains with strategic recycling behavior of consumers. First, a reverse supply chain model with strategic recycling behavior of consumers is developed based on the classical newsvendor problem. Next, after analyzing the wholesale price contract, we find that...

This paper develops closed-loop supply chain models with alliance recycling under two financing systems for recycling used products, that is, pay-as-you-throw (PAYT) and recycling fund (RF). The primary goal behind analytic formulation is to investigate the differences between the two financing systems and determine which one performs better, and t...

The importance of closed-loop supply chains has been widely recognized in literature and in practice. The paper investigates interactions among the different parties in a three-echelon closed-loop supply chain consisting of a single manufacturer, a single retailer and two recyclers and focuses on how cooperative strategies affect closed-loop supply...