现货价格和需求关联时期权组合合约模式下采购风险管理策略

在现货价格和客户端需求关联的情形下,本文引用期权组合合约建立现货市场供应量有限时的两阶段采购风险管理模型,以期最大化零售商的期望收益。文中先用逆向归纳法列出零售商第二阶段的最优策略,采用标准扰动定理得出有效合约应满足的最优性条件,并将原模型转化为单调的最短路径问题,应用动态规划求解最优的采购策略。最后用算例分析了现货价格与需求的相关系数及现货市场的供应量对最优策略的影响,发现当供应量一定时,各有效合约的最优预订量及有效合约的总预订量都随着相关系数的增大而提高,并且有效合约受相关系数的影响大小取决于合约的灵活性;并且,当相关系数一定时,有效合约的总预订量及执行价格最低的有效合约的最优预订量都随着供应量的增加而单调减少。     

价格相依随机需求下的逆向拍卖采购与定价联合决策

研究价格相依随机需求下零售商的逆向拍卖采购与定价联合决策问题。假定零售商首先确定一个采购合同,然后供应商投标,通过逆向拍卖选取一个获胜的供应商,由该供应商确定采购量并传递给零售商,同时零售商做定价决策影响其需求,目标是寻求一个最优的采购与定价策略以最大化零售商的期望利润。对于一般的随机需求函数,引进期望销售弹性这一新的概念并利用其性质证明零售商的期望收益(不包括采购费用)是采购量的凹函数,从而得到其最优的采购与定价策略。特别地,对正态需求分布情形给出了零售商的采购量和利润函数的解析表达式并进行数值分析。     

供应链中期权合约与混合合约决策选择北大核心CSCDCSSCI

研究由单供应商和单零售商组成的二级供应链,面对不确定的市场需求,零售商可以通过期权合约或混合合约(期权合约与远期合约的组合)向供应商订购产品.通过建立Stackelberg博弈模型,求解两种合约形式下零售商的最优采购决策与供应商的最优定价决策.亦从供应商和零售商的不同视角比较了两种合约.结果显示,供应商倾向采用期权合约销售产品,即使在混合合约背景下,供应商也会通过提高远期合约价格来阻止零售商通过远期合约采购产品.而零售商通过期权合约采购时收益能否提升则会受到期权执行价格和产品残值的影响.     

供应链中期权合约与混合合约决策选择

研究由单供应商和单零售商组成的二级供应链,面对不确定的市场需求,零售商可以通过期权合约或混合合约(期权合约与远期合约的组合)向供应商订购产品。通过建立 Stackelberg 博弈模型,求解两种合约形式下零售商的最优采购决策与供应商的最优定价决策。亦从供应商和零售商的不同视角比较了两种合约。结果显示,供应商倾向采用期权合约销售产品,即使在混合合约背景下,供应商也会通过提高远期合约价格来阻止零售商通过远期合约采购产品。而零售商通过期权合约采购时收益能否提升则会受到期权执行价格和产品残值的影响。     

基于 B2B电子交易市场的零售商最优订购策略

B2B电子交易市场能够为企业提供现货交易、远期合约交易以及产能期权合约交易等交易服务.B2B电子交易市场中交易的期权合约在签订后至到期日之前可再次交易.以此为背景研究了零售商最优采购策略.研究结果表明, 期权合约可再次交易为供应链中的零售商提供新的投机渠道, 显著地提高了零售商对期仅合约的采购数量, 而对与固定供应商签订的长期合约采购数量的影响不明显, 因此零售商在线下与网上市场的总订货量将有所增加.最后, 对供应链中的采购者、供应商以及第三方 B2B电子交易市场提出建议.     

股指期货保证金水平设置比较研究—基于Hill及VaR-x估计法

在电子交易市场具有流动性约束的限制下,研究了供应链企业基于运作和投机的目的,签订期权合约和电子市场现货交易的最优策略。设计了由一个生产商、一个零售商和一个第三方B2B电子交易市场组成的供应链,以生产商为供应链主导,在产能不限和产能较小两种情况下,研究了生产商和零售商的均衡策略,并对现货价格和零售需求服从均匀分布情形做了进一步探讨。最后通过模型和算例,讨论了电子市场现货流动性对参与者行为和供应链均衡结果的影响。     

产品服务升级下的契约设计与战略库存策略研究

零售企业进行升级产品服务的一个重要策略就是打造自有品牌。在考虑零售商拥有自有品牌以及具有战略库存能力的基础上,构建了两阶段博弈模型,得到了零售商和制造商在动态定价合约和价格承诺合约下的最优决策,探讨了自有品牌引入下供应链的最优契约设计。研究结果表明：当且仅当制造商的库存持有成本和自有品牌质量较低时,零售商才会在动态定价合约下持有战略库存。自有品牌对零售商的战略库存行为产生了抑制作用,自有品牌质量越高,战略库存水平越低。制造商更倾向于采用动态定价合约而零售商偏好价格承诺合约则仅出现在自有品牌的质量相对较低且库存持有成本处于中等水平的情况下;整体供应链对合约的倾向受到库存持有成本和自有品牌质量的双重影响;当零售商可选择最优的定价合约时,提高自有品牌质量不一定对制造商有害。     

基于B2B电子交易市场的零售商最优订购策略

B2B电子交易市场能够为企业提供现货交易、远期合约交易以及产能期权合约交易等交易服务.B2B电子交易市场中交易的期权合约在签订后至到期日之前可再次交易.以此为背景研究了零售商最优采购策略.研究结果表明,期权合约可再次交易为供应链中的零售商提供新的投机渠道,显著地提高了零售商对期仅合约的采购数量,而对与固定供应商签订的长...     

考虑初创企业的供应链融资与期权交易策略

考虑单供应商、单零售商组成的二级供应链，零售商作为初创企业面临资金短缺，但可以通过供应商贷款获得资金。除了提供资金支持，供应商还为零售商提供期权合约供其采购产品。通过对供应商期权价格和贷款利率，以及零售商的采购和融资策略进行分析，结论显示当产品生产成本较高时，供应商会设置较高的期权价格和贷款利率，获取整个供应链的利润。零售商期望利润为0并且面临较高的破产风险，而此时的博弈均衡是不稳定的。为了获得稳定博弈均衡，供应商需要稍微降低期权价格或贷款利率，以使零售商获得正的期望利润，此时零售商采购量会趋近于一个固定值。当生产成本较低时，供应商和零售商之间能够达到稳定的均衡解，且双方均有正的期望利润。     

防范操纵下的股指期货现金结算价设计

现有研究发现,期货的现金结算方式仍然无法避免市场操纵行为.在Kumar和Seppi的框架内,通过具体化现金结算价,分析不同结算方式下的股指期货操纵的最优策略,探讨现金价与市场操纵的内在关系,为使研究结论能适用于中国未来的股指期货合约,将Kumar和Seppi假设中市场交易机制延伸到指令驱动市场.研究表明,在特定市场环境下,现金结算价影响市场操纵行为;根据股指期货和现货市场的特点而设计恰当的现金结算方式有助于控制股指期货市场的操纵行为;当期货市场价格发现功能较弱而现货市场流动性较强时,单一价格结算机制能够控制市场操纵;当期货市场价格发现功能较强而现货市场流动性较弱时,平均价格结算机制对控制市场操纵更有效.     

Optimal procurement of long-term contracts in the presence of imperfect spot market

B2B spot market has grown rapidly and become an effective trading channel for commodity products. Besides long-term contract procurement from conventional suppliers (forward and option), a buyer can procure or sell commodities at any time in B2B spot market to adjust her inventory level. However, spot prices are generally volatile and the market is imperfect in the sense that spot trading may be realized with uncertainty in a given period of time and often comes with extra transaction cost. This paper considers a commodity buyer who can order forward and option contracts in advance and trade in a B2B spot market when spot price and demand are observed stochastically. Based on a single-period newsvendor model, we discuss three optimal order strategies and derive respective expected profits when the buyer is risk-neutral. The sensitivity of purchase costs, market liquidity and transaction cost is investigated. We also compare the optimal expected profits for different strategies to illustrate the effects of the two long-term contracts in the presence of the B2B spot market. We then extend our model to a multi-period setting and derive the optimal strategy. Finally, we numerically compute the optimal order strategy for a risk-averse buyer and analyze the impact of spot market, risk aversion, as well as the correlation between customer demand and spot price.     

基于数量柔性契约的双源应急物资采购定价模型

针对灾害事件发生的不确定性以及灾害发生后应急物资需求量的爆发式增长，本文设计了一个政府主导的基于数量柔性契约的双源应急物资采购模型。在存在一个现货市场的情况下，政府除了常规采购外，还会与供应方签订一份数量柔性契约，用以建立政企联合储备应急物资的合作关系。通过数理推导，本文发现灾害事件发生概率，政府自身储备量，现货市场采购价格会对双方决策产生重要影响，并给出三个影响因素在满足不同条件时政企双方的最优决策，同时进一步分析了这三个因素对政府采购成本与供应方利润的影响。最后，通过数值模拟的方式对所得结论进行了验证。本文的研究为政府与企业构建联合储备应急物资的合作关系提供了指导与依据。     

合同订购与现货市场混合交易下的双渠道供应链优化决策

为了更好地匹配需求与供应, 提高企业收益和服务水平, 本文研究了合同订购与现货市场交易结合下的双渠道供应链优化决策问题。首先分析了单纯批发价合同订购模式下的决策, 进一步考虑现货市场单向交易及双向交易的情形, 将供应链回购合同与数量柔性合同引入单向现货市场, 建立了这两类合同订购分别与现货市场补货、现货市场卖货相结合的订购模型, 以及批发价合同订购与现货市场买卖双向交易联合的决策模型。分析了不同模式下回购价格、缺货成本、补货成本、现货价格、现货价格波动及风险偏好对订购决策的影响, 并通过算例仿真, 分析了各类现货市场的使用对销售商收益的影响。结果表明, 合同订购与双向现货市场结合可以充分利用现货市场即时交易的优势, 提高供应链效益;而合同订购与单向现货市场结合, 虽然可以通过合同提高供货水平, 降低库存积压风险, 但该情形需要考虑供应商的回购或补货价格, 销售商仍有一定风险。不论单向或双向现货市场与合同订购的联合, 均可使供应链的利润优于单纯合同订购的情形。     

Combined Pricing and Portfolio Option Procurement

In this paper, we study a single‐product periodic‐review inventory system that faces random and price‐dependent demand. The firm can purchase the product either from option contracts or from the spot market. Different option contracts are offered by a set of suppliers with a two‐part fee structure: a unit reservation cost and a unit exercising cost. The spot market price is random and its realization may affect the subsequent option contract prices. The firm decides the reservation quantity from each supplier and the product selling price at the beginning of each period and the number of options to exercise (inventory replenishment) at the end of the period to maximize the total expected profit over its planning horizon. We show that the optimal inventory replenishment policy is order‐up‐to type with a sequence of decreasing thresholds. We also investigate the optimal option‐reservation policy and the optimal pricing strategy. The optimal reservation quantities and selling price are shown to be both decreasing in the starting inventory level when demand function is additive. Building upon the analytical results, we conduct a numerical study to unveil additional managerial insights. Among other things, we quantify the values of the option contracts and dynamic pricing to the firm and show that they are more significant when the market demand becomes more volatile.     

Procurement strategies in the presence of the spot market—an analytical framework

This paper investigates a problem in which a buyer can procure from a regular supplier as well as from a supplier in a spot market, possibly formed over the Internet. The contract with the regular supplier specifies a predetermined order volume and price, while the spot market has unlimited supply but a varying spot price. We analyse this problem from a buyer/supplier perspective, and an analytical model is developed to analyse two distinctive procurement strategies: the pure procurement system (PS) and the mixed procurement system of regular supplier with a supplier in spot markets (MS). Without loss of generality, we obtained a closed-forms solution that enabled us to provide numerical analysis on the procurement strategies, and allowed us to compare further the different characteristics between PS and MS. The results of our analysis demonstrate that the use of spot market could effectively mitigate the risk associated with demand uncertainty facing the buyer. The results also show that adopting MS can generate a higher buyer's profit than the PS, and significant supply-chain profit improvements can indeed be achieved through buyer/supplier coordination. Furthermore, spot price volatility leads to the facilitation of the use of spot markets, improving the buyer and the supply-chain profitability.     

现货供应不确定下的优化采购策略研究

在现货市场和传统契约市场共存时,研究了现货供应的不确定性和销售商的风险规避态度对于销售商的采购策略的影响。首先,在现货供应充足和供应不确定两种情况下分析了实现供应链协调的最优订购量和退货价格,以及销售商的风险规避态度对于订购量的影响.然后,通过数值计算进行了分析和验证.结果表明,现货供应充足时的订购量总是低于现货供应不确定时的订购量;但现货供应充足时供应链的期望利润高于现货供应不确定的情况.现货市场存在下,风险厌恶因子对订购量的影响趋势与单纯契约市场下正好相反.     

Hedging through index-based price contracts in commodity-based supply chains

This paper studies the optimal hedging strategy of risk-neutral firms in supply chain settings. We model a retailer procuring goods through index-based price contracts from two commodity processors. The processors’ input commodity prices are random and correlated. The retailer faces price-sensitive demand curves; therefore, it controls product demand through retail pricing in the final product market. We characterize the optimal contracting terms for the processors and show that they prefer to hedge part of their exposure to the commodity price risk. The optimal contract for processor comprises a processing margin independent of the commodity price volatility and a hedge ratio that is a function of the commodity price volatility and the products substitution factor. We uncover a new rationale for hedging in settings where downstream firms have pricing power; both processors and the retailer benefit from the retailer’s pricing power when their margins are linked to input prices; an index-based price contract is a means to link the processors’ and the retailer’s margins. We further investigate how different market parameters affect the optimal hedge ratios and extend our model to settings with random market sizes and asymmetric substitution for final products.     

Financial Hedging and Optimal Procurement Policies under Correlated Price and Demand

We consider a firm that procures an input commodity to produce an output commodity to sell to the end retailer. The retailer's demand for the output commodity is negatively correlated with the price of the output commodity. The firm can sell the output commodity to the retailer through a spot, forward or an index‐based contract. Input and output commodity prices are also correlated and follow a joint stochastic price process. The firm maximizes shareholder value by jointly determining optimal procurement and hedging policies. We show that partial hedging dominates both perfect hedging and no‐hedging when input price, output price, and demand are correlated. We characterize the optimal financial hedging and procurement policies as a function of the term structure of the commodity prices, the correlation between the input and output prices, and the firm's operating characteristics. In addition, our analysis illustrates that hedging is most beneficial when output price volatility is high and input price volatility is low. Our model is tested on futures price data for corn and ethanol from the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.