Khaled Belahcène, Vincent Mousseau, Wassila Ouerdane, Marc Pirlot, Olivier Sobrie
{"title":"A guided tour of multiple criteria sorting models and methods","authors":"Khaled Belahcène, Vincent Mousseau, Wassila Ouerdane, Marc Pirlot, Olivier Sobrie","doi":"10.1007/s10479-024-06278-w","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10479-024-06278-w","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Multiple criteria sorting methods assign objects into ordered categories while objects are characterized by a vector of <i>n</i> attributes values. Categories are ordered, and the assignment of the object is monotonic w.r.t. to some underlying order on the attributes scales (criteria). Our goal is to offer a survey of the literature on multiple criteria sorting methods, since the origins, in the 1980’s, focusing on the underlying models. In the first part of the paper, we start by recalling two main models, one based on additive value functions (UTADIS) and the other one an outranking relation (<span>Electre Tri</span>). Then we draw a (structured) picture of multiple criteria sorting models and the methods designed for eliciting their parameters or learning them based on assignment examples. In a second part of the paper, we attempt to provide a theoretical view of the field and position some existing models within it. We then discuss issues related to imperfect or insufficient information.\u0000</p></div>","PeriodicalId":8215,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Operations Research","volume":"343 2021-2023)","pages":"785 - 845"},"PeriodicalIF":4.4,"publicationDate":"2024-11-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142826235","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
John Arabadjis, Michael Melvin, Robert Savage, John Velis
{"title":"Seasonal affective disorder and currency markets","authors":"John Arabadjis, Michael Melvin, Robert Savage, John Velis","doi":"10.1007/s10479-024-06364-z","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10479-024-06364-z","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Harry Markowitz is known as the grandfather of behavioral finance based on his 1952 work on utility theory. We study a behavioral issue applied to the currency market: seasonal affective disorder (SAD). As the days grow shorter (longer) in fall (spring), investors become more (less) risk averse due to changes in depression related to SAD. Our empirical results are consistent with changes in risk-taking in global equities and the associated change in currency hedging portfolios. In the spring/summer season of long daylight hours, we find evidence of greater short positions for the euro. This is consistent with investors taking more risk in global equities and adding to their currency shorts to hedge the FX exposure. Such changes in euro holdings are reversed in the season of shorter daylight hours, consistent with risky investments being reduced due to greater risk aversion so currency hedges are reduced. For currency returns, we find that the greater shorting in spring–summer is associated with currency depreciation over the season of long days. In the season of short days, currency buying associated with cutting hedging positions leads to currency appreciation. We find that the SAD influence on seasonal currency returns is much like the evidence for equity returns. Finally, we construct and backtest a SAD-inspired currency portfolio. We find that trading the spring/summer risk-on SAD effect from longer days and recovery from SAD-related depression had a decent positive risk-adjusted performance and displayed fairly consistent performance over time.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":8215,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Operations Research","volume":"346 1","pages":"549 - 565"},"PeriodicalIF":4.4,"publicationDate":"2024-11-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10479-024-06364-z.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143638140","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Luigi D’Ambra, Rosella Castellano, Pierpaolo D’Urso, Sandra De Iaco
{"title":"Statistical methods for decision making in public sector: from the quality assessment to the citizen satisfaction","authors":"Luigi D’Ambra, Rosella Castellano, Pierpaolo D’Urso, Sandra De Iaco","doi":"10.1007/s10479-024-06374-x","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10479-024-06374-x","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":8215,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Operations Research","volume":"342 3","pages":"1369 - 1377"},"PeriodicalIF":4.4,"publicationDate":"2024-11-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142714439","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Correction: Portfolio insurance, portfolio theory, market simulation, and risks of portfolio leverage","authors":"Bruce I. Jacobs, Kenneth N. Levy","doi":"10.1007/s10479-024-06367-w","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10479-024-06367-w","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":8215,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Operations Research","volume":"344 1","pages":"563 - 563"},"PeriodicalIF":4.4,"publicationDate":"2024-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142912767","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The absolute quickest 1-center problem on a cycle and its reverse problem","authors":"Kien Trung Nguyen","doi":"10.1007/s10479-024-06361-2","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10479-024-06361-2","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The concept of the quickest path refers to the path with the minimum transmission time, considering both its length and capacity. We investigate the problem of finding a point on a cycle such that the maximum quickest distance from any vertex to that point is minimized. We refer to this problem as the quickest 1-center problem on cycles. First, we solve the problem on paths in linear time based on the optimality criterion. Then, we address the problem on cycles in <span>(O(n^2))</span> time by leveraging the solution approach on the induced path in each iteration, where <i>n</i> is the number of vertices. We also consider the problem of reducing the quickest distance objective at a predetermined vertex of a cycle as much as possible by augmenting the edge capacities within a given budget. This problem is called the reverse quickest 1-center problem on cycles. We develop a combinatorial algorithm that solves the problem in <span>(O(n^2))</span> time by solving each subproblem in linear time.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":8215,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Operations Research","volume":"347 3","pages":"1473 - 1491"},"PeriodicalIF":4.4,"publicationDate":"2024-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143925591","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Dollarization in Ecuador: 2000–2024","authors":"Michael B. Connolly","doi":"10.1007/s10479-024-06365-y","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10479-024-06365-y","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper adopts a Markowitz inspired treatment of uncertainty in inflation and the exchange rate in analyzing the dollarization of Ecuador in 2000. The adoption of the U.S. dollar set a fixed price of foreign (and domestic) currency of one, with zero nominal return and zero variance. Dollarization thus stabilized inflation, guaranteed convertibility in foreign trade and resuscitated the stock exchange in Quito. The dollar served the role of the risk-free asset, save for the risk of U.S. inflation. However, in over 20 years, Ecuador has paid seigniorage to the U.S. Treasury of an accumulated $20 billion in outside money, dollar currency and coin. In 2023, we estimate an operational expense in terms of new seigniorage and the inflationary tax of slightly more than 1% of its GDP. Yet Ecuador has stabilized prices and grown more rapidly, coincidently, by 1.2%.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":8215,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Operations Research","volume":"346 1","pages":"693 - 701"},"PeriodicalIF":4.4,"publicationDate":"2024-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10479-024-06365-y.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143638347","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Alex Shkolnik, Alec Kercheval, Hubeyb Gurdogan, Lisa R. Goldberg, Haim Bar
{"title":"Portfolio selection revisited","authors":"Alex Shkolnik, Alec Kercheval, Hubeyb Gurdogan, Lisa R. Goldberg, Haim Bar","doi":"10.1007/s10479-024-06340-7","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10479-024-06340-7","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In 1952, Harry Markowitz formulated portfolio selection as a trade-off between expected, or mean, return and variance. This launched a massive research effort devoted to finding suitable inputs to mean-variance optimization. The estimation problem is high dimensional and a factor model is at the core of many attempts. A factor model can reduce the number of parameters that need to be estimated to a manageable size, but these parameters may incorporate substantial, hidden estimation error. Recent analysis elucidates the nature of this error, identifies a mechanism by which it can corrupt optimization and provides a method for its mitigation. We explore this analysis here by illustrating how to improve the volatility ratio of large optimized portfolios, leading to superior portfolio selection.<span>(^{*})</span></p></div>","PeriodicalId":8215,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Operations Research","volume":"346 1","pages":"137 - 155"},"PeriodicalIF":4.4,"publicationDate":"2024-11-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10479-024-06340-7.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143638332","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Optimal refund policy design for ship berthing appointment mechanism","authors":"Haoqing Wang, Yan Liu, Yuquan Du, Shuaian Wang","doi":"10.1007/s10479-024-06318-5","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10479-024-06318-5","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Seaports, the nodal and bottleneck points in the global supply chain network, have been making effort to encourage shipping companies to book berths before ships arrive at the ports. The information and communication technology (ICT) system is essential for the success of this effort. We propose an appointment mechanism with a refund policy for the berth booking ICT system to mitigate port congestion. Two refund policies are investigated: cash refund policy and coupon refund policy. We develop a bi-level model that considers the interests of the port and shipping companies, with which the cash refund policy determines its optimal booking fee and the returned cash, and the coupon refund policy determines its optimal booking fee, the value of the coupon, and the shelf life of the coupon. Numerical experiments are conducted to analyze the two refund policies, the reactions of shipping companies with different characteristics, and how the port takes advantage of the characteristics of shipping companies to maximize profit. The proposed appointment mechanism achieves a win-win performance for the port and shipping companies as it increases the income of the port and reduces the delay cost of shipping companies. This study innovatively investigates the refund policy for the berth booking system and helps understand the mechanism of the system, thereby providing theoretical support for applying the berth booking system in the maritime industry. Moreover, this study contributes to alleviating port congestion and to environmental sustainability by reducing ship emissions caused by waiting at port and inappropriate sailing speed.\u0000</p></div>","PeriodicalId":8215,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Operations Research","volume":"347 3","pages":"1643 - 1670"},"PeriodicalIF":4.4,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10479-024-06318-5.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143925506","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Madjid Tavana, Tobias Schoenherr, Yang Cheng, Ajay Kumar, Eric W. T. Ngai
{"title":"Digital operations research models for intelligent machines (industry 4.0) and man-machine (industry 5.0) systems","authors":"Madjid Tavana, Tobias Schoenherr, Yang Cheng, Ajay Kumar, Eric W. T. Ngai","doi":"10.1007/s10479-024-06366-x","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10479-024-06366-x","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":8215,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Operations Research","volume":"342 2","pages":"1041 - 1047"},"PeriodicalIF":4.4,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142600531","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Women, immigrants, and microcredit in Europe: a Bayesian approach","authors":"Anastasia Cozarenco, Ariane Szafarz, Mike Tsionas","doi":"10.1007/s10479-024-06312-x","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10479-024-06312-x","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We use structural modeling to address the allocation process of a microcredit provider granting loans to a heterogeneous pool of applicants. Our theoretical model accounts for technology, risk preferences, and information asymmetry. We test the model with a hand-collected database that includes detailed information on the applicants of a microcredit institution funding European micro-enterprises. Non-parametric Bayesian methodology is used to unpack between-group differences in approval probabilities associated with gender and country of origin and identify (demand-side differences), while differences in unexplained approval probabilities would suggest supply-side biases. The empirical analysis shows that applicants coming from outside of the European Union tend to be more productive than EU-born citizens. They also enjoy a higher approval probability, except for applicants from Latin America, which appear to be riskier borrowers. This result suggests that the microcredit provider treats immigrants fairly. By contrast, the higher productivity and the lower risk of female entrepreneurial projects is only partially compensated by easier access to credit.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":8215,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Operations Research","volume":"344 1","pages":"103 - 134"},"PeriodicalIF":4.4,"publicationDate":"2024-10-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142912747","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}