Multiperiod Inventory Management with Budget Cycles: Rational and Behavioral Decision‐Making

We examine inventory decisions in a multiperiod newsvendor model. In particular, we analyze the impact of budget cycles in a behavioral setting. We derive optimal rational decisions and characterize the behavioral decision‐making process using a short‐sightedness factor. We test the aforementioned effect in a laboratory environment. We find that subjects reduce order‐up‐to levels significantly at the end of the current budget cycle, which results in a cyclic pattern during the budget cycle. This indicates that the subjects are short‐sighted with respect to future budget cycles. To control for inventory that is carried over from one period to the next, we introduce a starting‐inventory factor and find that order‐up‐to levels increase in the starting inventory.

• 저널Production and Operations Management · 29(3) · 643–663
• 토픽Supply Chain and Inventory Management · Management Information Systems
• DOI10.1111/poms.13123
• 저자Michael Becker‐Peth, Kai Hoberg, Margarita Protopappa‐Sieke