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This paper aims to investigate the development of Macao's gaming industry during the past decades. This topic has tracked tons of attention while little works has been done to measure the Macao's gaming industry from performance perspective. Based on the theory of linear programming, the mathematical model of Malmquist index has been implied to measure the performance of gaming sectors. Data are collected from six Macao main casino concessionaires in the year of 2007-2014, the analysis result reveal that on the average, the efficiency of Macao's gaming industry is 82.3% and total factor productivity growth improved 17.4% for the period 2007-2014.

We consider a supply chain system involved in a perishable product with a fixed lifetime. The retailer is using a periodical reviewed (s, S) policy to manage the inventory and sell the products with backlogs. The supplier and the retailer coordinate the system using a revenue-sharing contract in order to improve the channel performance and maximize the total profit of the system. We show that coordination between supplier and retailer with revenue-sharing contract is possible to improve the performance of the system. Considering the risk of product expiration, the optimal coordination contract is different for system selling perishable product compared with normal long lifetime product.