demand management

Business Cycles and Fiscal Policy in an Open Economy

The role of fiscal policy remains a controversial issue. In this paper, the role of demand management policy is considered in a two-sector open economy model with price-taking firms and imperfect competition in the labour market. Demand management policies are shown to affect the equilibrium distribution of prices and hence ...

Category : Economics Papers
Optimal coordination of purchasing, inventory and demand management

This research is motivated by the long-standing problems faced by one large wholesaler in Hong Kong, which plays the role as a sourcing agent for over a thousand of worldwide clients on hundreds of products. Around forty percent of the commodities are sold via contracts, and the remaining sixty percent ...