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Erica L. Plambeck

RESEARCH

Plambeck, E.L, and Taylor, T.A. (2002) Implications of Renegotiation for Optimal Contract Flexibility and Investment,  forthcoming in Management Science. [download paper]

Plambeck, E.L, and Taylor, T.A.  (2004) Implications of Breach Remedy and Renegotiation Design for Innovation and Capacity,  forthcoming in Management Science. [download paper]

Plambeck, E.L. and Taylor, T.A. (2006) Partnership in a Dynamic Production System with Unobservable Actions and Noncontractible Output Management Science 52 1509-1527. [download paper]

Taylor, T.A. and Plambeck, E.L. (2003) Supply Chain Relationships and Contracts: the Impact of Repeated Interaction on Capacity Investment and Procurement, forthcoming in Management Science. [download paper]

Taylor, T.A. and Plambeck, E.L. (2007) Simple Relational Contracts for Capacity Investment: Price-Only vs. Quantity-Commitment Manufacturing and Service Operations Management 9 94-113. [download paper] [download supplementary appendix]

Plambeck, E.L. and Taylor, T.A. (2005) Sell the Plant? The Impact of Contract Manufacturing on Innovation, Capacity, and Profitability Management Science 51 133-150. [download paper] [download technical appendix]

Chen, L. and Plambeck, E.L. (2005) Dynamic Inventory Management with Learning about the Demand Distribution and Substitution Probability, forthcoming in Manufacturing & Service Operations Management. [download paper] [download internet appendix]

Plambeck, E.L. and Ward, A.R. (2006) Optimal Control of a High-Volume Assemble-to-Order System Mathematics of Operations Research 31 453 – 477. [download paper]

Plambeck, E.L. and Ward, A.R. (2003) Note: A Separation Principle for a Class of Assemble to Order Systems with Expediting, forthcoming in Operations Research.  

Armony, M. and Plambeck, E.L. (2005) The Impact of Duplicate Orders on Demand Estimation and Capacity Investment Management Science 51 1505-1518. [download paper]

Armony, M.,  Plambeck, E.L. and Seshadri, S. (2005) Convexity Properties and Comparative Statics for an M/M/S Queue with Impatient Customers: Why You Shouldn’t Shout at the DMV, forthcoming in Manufacturing & Service Operations Management.

Plambeck, E.L. (2005) Asymptotically Optimal Control for an Assemble-to-Order System with Capacitated Component Production and Fixed Transport Costs, forthcoming in Operations Research. [download paper]

Plambeck, E.L. (2004) Optimal Leadtime Differentiation via Diffusion Approximations Operations Research  52 213-228. [download paper]

Plambeck, E.L. and Zenios, S.A. (2003) Incentive Efficient Control of a Make-to-Stock Production System, Operations Research 51 371-386. [download paper]

Plambeck, E.L. and Zenios, S.A. (2000) Performance-Based Incentives in a Dynamic Principal-Agent Model, Manufacturing and Service Operations Management 2 240-263. [download paper]

Plambeck, E.L.,  Kumar, S. and Harrison, J.M. (2001) A Multiclass Queue in Heavy Traffic with Throughput Time Constraints:  Asymptotically Optimal Dynamic Controls, Queueing Systems 39 23-54.

Plambeck, E.L., Hope, C. and Anderson, J. (1997) The PAGE95 Model:  Integrating the Science and Economics of Global Warming, Energy Economics 19 77-101.

Plambeck, E.L. and Hope, C. (1996) An Updated Valuation of the Impacts of Global Warming, Energy Policy 24 783-794.

Plambeck, E.L.,  Fu, B.-R, Robinson, S.M., and Suri, R. (1996) Sample-path Optimization of Convex Stochastic Performance Functions, Mathematical Programming 75 137-176.  

Papers in Review Process

Plambeck, E.L. and Ward, A.R. (2005) Optimal Control of a High-Volume Assemble-to-Order System with Guaranteed Maximum Delays and Expediting, submitted to QUESTA. [download paper]

Plambeck, E.L, and Taylor, T.A.  (2006) Green Production through Competitive Testing,  submitted to Management Science. [download paper] [download paper with supplementary appendix]

Kayis, E., Erhun, F. and Plambeck, E.L. (2007) Delegation vs. Control of Component Procurement,  submitted to Management Science. [download paper] 

Plambeck, E.L. and Q. Wang (2006) Effects of E-Waste Regulation on New Product Introduction, submitted to Management Science. [download paper]


Other Publications

Plambeck, E.L. (2007) Sample-path Optimization of Convex Stochastic Performance Functions Supply Chain Management Review  July/August 18-25.

Chen, L., E. Plambeck. 2004. Dynamic Bayesian Quantity Control When Some Customers Will Accept a Substitute. Manufacturing & Service Operations Management 6 103-106.