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Optimal trade-in and warranty period strategies for new and remanufactured products under carbon tax policy

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  • Kaiying Cao
  • Bing Xu
  • Jia Wang

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In the context of remanufactured products with low production and carbon emission costs, manufacturing firms that produce and sell new and remanufactured products need to choose whether or not to offer trade-in service only for remanufactured products. To address this challenge, this paper investigates the optimal trade-in and warranty period strategies of a firm subject to carbon tax and trade-in subsidies policies. According to the firm’s trade-in choices, we develop two theoretical models: model TIA (Trade-in services are offered for all products) and model TIR (Trade-in service is only available to remanufactured products). The results offer some managerial insights. TIA and TIR may be a firm’s optimal trade-in choice under certain conditions; furthermore, the optimal trade-in service choice is not always benefit consumers. The results show that trade-in strategies have no effect on warranty period strategies, while a firm does not take warranty periods into consideration is more likely to choose TIR rather than TIA. A firm in TIR can curb carbon emissions more effectively. Interestingly, trade-in subsidies are not necessarily conducive to curbing total carbon emissions. We also present several quantitative examples, and find that consumers’ increased acceptance of the remanufactured product does not always benefit the firm.

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  • Kaiying Cao & Bing Xu & Jia Wang, 2020. "Optimal trade-in and warranty period strategies for new and remanufactured products under carbon tax policy," International Journal of Production Research, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 58(1), pages 180-199, January.
  • Handle: RePEc:taf:tprsxx:v:58:y:2020:i:1:p:180-199
    DOI: 10.1080/00207543.2019.1617448
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    1. Guo, Xiaolong & Zhou, Qiang & Bian, Junsong, 2022. "Online retailers’ platform-based Worry-Free-Shopping: Retailing strategy considering consumer valuation bias," Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, Elsevier, vol. 167(C).
    2. Cao, Kaiying & Su, Yunyi & Han, Guoxin & Choi, Tsan-Ming, 2022. "Is it wise to offer rebates for unused extended warranties under trade-in programs in supply chains?," Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, Elsevier, vol. 167(C).
    3. Dou, Guowei & Choi, Tsan-Ming, 2021. "Does implementing trade-in and green technology together benefit the environment?," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 295(2), pages 517-533.
    4. Li, Sijie & Zheng, Bin & Jia, Dongfeng, 2024. "Optimal decisions for hybrid manufacturing and remanufacturing with trade-in program and carbon tax," Omega, Elsevier, vol. 124(C).
    5. Esmat Baghdadi & Mahmood Shafiee & Babakalli Alkali, 2022. "Upgrading Strategy, Warranty Policy and Pricing Decisions for Remanufactured Products Sold with Two-Dimensional Warranty," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(12), pages 1-15, June.

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