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48 results for retail industry

Study improves retail demand forecasting by integrating macroeconomic data.

problem Lack of accurate demand forecasting due to incomplete data.
method Enriched time series data with macroeconomic variables; compared regression and machine learning models.
result Improved accuracy in predicting retail demand through comprehensive data integration.

Study models growth of unorganized retail in Indian pharma sector amid organized and e-retail competition.

problem Survival strategies of unorganized retailers challenged by organized and e-retailers.
method Field investigation, conjoint analysis, design of experiments, agent-based simulation.
result Unorganized retailers' performance influenced by their own attribute levels and price discounts.

This paper uses bandit algorithms to reduce the cost of user interface experimentation in online retail.

problem Reducing the cost of user interface experimentation in online retail.
method Modeling user interface experimentation as an opportunistic bandit problem, reducing the cost of exploration.
result Significant regret reduction and improved contextual information for testing.

Time-series forecasting is an important task in both academic and industry, which can be applied to solve many real forecasting problems like stock, water-supply, and sales predictions. In this paper, we study the case of retailers' sales forecasting on Tmall|the world's leading online B2C platform. By analyzing the da…

2020-02-27abs ↗pdf ↗

Study benchmarks mutual funds in India using DEA, finding efficiency metrics.

problem Benchmark mutual funds in India based on efficiency metrics.
method Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) model incorporating risk, cost, return, and information ratio.
result DEA model identifies efficiency frontier and compares results with traditional metrics.

Study examines how COVID-19 intensified demand variability in U.S. supply chains.

problem The amplification of demand variability (Bullwhip Effect) in supply chains during the pandemic.
method Extensive industry-level data analysis using traditional and advanced empirical techniques.
result COVID-19 significantly amplified the Bullwhip Effect across different U.S. industries.

Bundling, the practice of jointly selling two or more products at a discount, is a widely used strategy in industry and a well examined concept in academia. Historically, the focus has been on theoretical studies in the context of monopolistic firms and assumed product relationships, e.g., complementarity in usage. We …

2020-01-31abs ↗pdf ↗

Jointly tackles assortment and pricing in retail, using bandit models.

problem Maximizing revenue or profit in retail through optimal assortment and pricing.
method Contextual bandits with a flexible, interpretable model for high-dimensional contexts and actions.
result Proves lower regret compared to state-of-the-art methods in various bandit and pricing models.

Newly available data on the spatial distribution of retail activities in cities makes it possible to build models formalized at the level of the single retailer. Current models tackle consumer location choices at an aggregate level and the opportunity new data offers for modeling at the retail unit level lacks a theore…

2016-12-16abs ↗pdf ↗

Retail Product Image Classification is an important Computer Vision and Machine Learning problem for building real world systems like self-checkout stores and automated retail execution evaluation. In this work, we present various tricks to increase accuracy of Deep Learning models on different types of retail product …

2020-01-12abs ↗pdf ↗

Supplier learns to price contracts against a learning retailer.

problem Designing data-driven pricing policies for a supplier facing a learning retailer.
method Connecting to non-stationary online learning, proposing dynamic pricing policies for discrete and continuous demand.
result Supplier's pricing policies lead to sublinear regret bounds under various retailer learning policies.

Improved neural network convergence with causal Bayesian modeling in retail performance.

problem Improving neural network convergence in retail performance models.
method Causal Bayesian neural network implementation, removal of weakest SEM path, Flipout layers, Vadam optimizer.
result Neural network convergence improved with removal of the weakest SEM path.

India is ranked as the third most attractive nation for retail investment among emerging markets and many MNCs have been looking for the potential benefits to be taken from it. The development of organized retail has the potential of generating employment, improvement in technology, development of real estate etc. On t…

2012-10-23abs ↗pdf ↗

This study benchmarks AI agents for personalized retail promotions using simulations.

problem Optimizing coupon targeting for sparse customer purchase events.
method Comprehensive simulations of customer shopping behaviors; training RL agents on batch data.
result Contextual bandit and deep RL methods outperform static policies in sparse reward environments.

New method estimates corporate default probabilities using indirect data.

problem Lack of direct default rate data for corporate companies.
method Modeling default probability dynamics using Bank of Russia overdue debt data.
result Validated method produces trustworthy default probability series.

Investor-driven information diffusion affects excess comovement in China and the U.S. markets.

problem Investor-driven information diffusion and its impact on excess comovement.
method Cross-sectional analysis of 4,533 Chinese and 4,517 U.S. stocks from 2010 to 2022.
result Retail-driven information diffusion significantly drives excess comovement in China, while institution-driven diffusion is the primary driver in the U.S.

The study reveals distinct patterns in retail investors' holding periods affecting stock returns.

problem Understanding the impact of retail investors' investment horizons on stock returns.
method Using self-reported holding periods from StockTwits, the study categorizes retail investors into long-horizon and short-horizon groups and analyzes their return patterns.
result Long-horizon retail investors exhibit underreaction to earnings announcements, while short-horizon investors show overreaction.

This paper optimizes revenue and resource balance in network revenue management.

problem Maximizing revenue while ensuring fair resource consumption across different suppliers.
method Introduces a regularized revenue objective and a primal-dual UCB algorithm for continuous prices and balancing.
result Achieves a worst-case regret of O~(N5/2T)\widetilde O(N^{5/2}\sqrt{T}) for revenue maximization and balancing.

This paper develops a dynamic internal fraud model for operational losses in retail banking. It considers public operational losses arising from internal fraud in retail banking within a group of international banks. Additionally, the model takes into account internal factors such as the ethical quality of workers and …

2020-02-08abs ↗pdf ↗

Research identifies four motivational groups for crypto-metaverse landowners.

problem Understanding motivations of retail investors in the crypto-metaverse.
method Detailed financial behavior survey and principal components analysis.
result Four distinct motivational groups identified: Aesthetics, Social, Speculation, Innovation.

Study on stock portfolio concentration among Finnish households and investors.

problem Understanding the concentration of stock portfolios owned by Finnish households and investors.
method Analysis of stock portfolios using Herfindahl-Hirschman index over 20 years.
result High portfolio concentration observed in Finnish retail investors, similar to institutional investors.

An evolutionary game model analyzes e-commerce and traditional retail trends during the pandemic.

problem Understanding the dynamics between e-commerce and traditional retail during the pandemic.
method Developed an evolutionary game model to study consumer-producer interactions on e-commerce platforms.
result Investment in logistics and warehouses in e-commerce led to faster delivery and consumer trends.

A new hierarchical forecasting method using machine learning improves forecast accuracy.

problem Improving forecast accuracy in hierarchical forecasting systems.
method Non-linear combination of base forecasts, focusing on both accuracy and coherence.
result The proposed method outperforms existing approaches, especially for diverse series.

How does supply uncertainty affect the structure of supply chain networks? To answer this question we consider a setting where retailers and suppliers must establish a costly relationship with each other prior to engaging in trade. Suppliers, with uncertain yield, announce wholesale prices, while retailers must decide …

2019-07-20abs ↗pdf ↗

This study examines non-retail trading on Polymarket, revealing unique behavior patterns and structural limitations.

problem Lack of address-level quote-lifecycle data in Polymarket prediction markets.
method Empirical analysis of 13 million order-filled events using DBSCAN clustering on a six-feature fill-side vector.
result Non-retail behavior is uni-modal, contradicting previous archetypal hypotheses.

Retail investors set interest rates for P2P loans based on borrower characteristics.

problem Understanding how individual investors price credit risk in online consumer loan auctions.
method Reverse auction framework, analyzing interest rate variance and borrower characteristics.
result Retail investors exhibit strong predictability in pricing, with gender and marital status influencing interest rates.

Proposes balancing revenue and environmental impact in assortment planning.

problem Maximizing revenue while considering environmental impact in retail assortment planning.
method Multi-objective optimization using Higg Material Sustainability Index.
result Shows it's possible to have lower environmental impact without significant revenue loss.

Study shows marketable order routing to wholesalers benefits all traders, leading to lower market depth and price volatility.

problem Determining the preference of retail traders for marketable order routing.
method Two models: one for market makers competing for retail order flow (Bertrand model) and another for price-taking competitive liquidity providers (open exchange model).
result Routing marketable orders to wholesalers is preferred by all traders, leading to mean reverting inventories and lower market depth.

The Internet is known to have had a powerful impact on on-line retailer strategies in markets characterised by long-tail distribution of sales. Such retailers can exploit the long tail of the market, since they are effectively without physical limit on the number of choices on offer. Here we examine two extensions of t…

2008-08-12abs ↗pdf ↗

The purpose of this paper is to identify the immediate and future retailer response to wholesale stockouts. We perform a statistical analysis of historical customer order and delivery data of a local tool wholesaler and distributor, whose customers are retailers, over a period of four years. We investigate the effect o…

2019-03-10abs ↗pdf ↗