Improving Consumer Welfare and Manufacturer Profit via Government Subsidy Programs: Subsidizing Consumers or Manufacturers?

Jiayi Joey Yu
Jiayi Joey Yu
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Department of Industrial Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084
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Christopher S. Tang
Christopher S. Tang
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University of California, Los Angeles, Anderson School, Los Angeles, California 90095
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Zuo-Jun Max Shen
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Zuo-Jun Max Shen
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Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research and Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720
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Department of Industrial Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084

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Christopher S. Tang

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University of California, Los Angeles, Anderson School, Los Angeles, California 90095

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Zuo-Jun Max Shen

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Zuo-Jun Max Shen

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Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research and Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720

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Published Online:6 Jun 2018https://doi.org/10.1287/msom.2017.0684

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