Research  at  a  glance

Is Continuity All We Need? A Modeling Approach to Evaluating Relational Continuity in Primary Care

Joint work with Nicos Savva and Yueyang Zhong
Status: Working Paper (draft available upon request)

Relational continuity in primary care, having shown to offer both clinical and operational benefits, is perceived as the hallmark of general practice. Our research employs a queueing-based model to demonstrate that in a health system already facing severe congestion and resource limitations, pursuing very high levels of continuity can lead to a substantial loss of efficiency, exacerbating the system's congestion issues.

Estimating Demand in the Absence of Sales and Inventory Information

Joint work with Sarang Deo, Sripad Devalkar and Aditya Jain
Status: Working Paper (draft available upon request)

Unorganized retail stores in emerging economies lack sales and inventory data due to the absence of point-of-sale devices. The extant literature on inventory management does not account for this shortcoming. We develop an Expectation-Maximization algorithm-based methodology to estimate customer demand and retailers’ inventory policies using only replenishment data maintained by upstream suppliers.