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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Bid Price"”.
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Revenue management for airline alliances : passenger origin-destination simulation analysis
… management methods, especially those using bid-price control, was shown to be sensitive to the evaluation of codeshare passengers. The sole use of different evaluation or discount methods for these passengers, by taking into account either the fare of their whole itinerary or the …
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Airline alliance revenue management : improving joint revenues through partner sharing of flight leg opportunity costs
… the opportunity costs to their network, called "bid prices", of selling a seat on their own flight leg, a mechanism termed bid price sharing (BPS). Results show that BPS methods often improve revenues and work best for networks with certain characteristics and partners with similar RM systems …
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Modelling the performance of revenue management systems in different competitive environments
… Fare Class Yield Management (FCYM); Heuristic Bid Price (HBP); Displacement Adjusted Virtual Nesting (DAVN); and Probabilistic Bid Price (ProBP). Each of the methods is tested in conjunction with two different demand forecasting philosophies: the traditional pickup (or moving average) …
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An investigation of price dispersion in Internet auctions
… on-line auctions, there is a strong degree of price dispersion, even in liquid markets with a large number of bids per auction item. This Thesis research strives to quantify such dispersion and present explanations for the key findings on the nature of price dispersion in on-line auctions of …
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Risk arbitrage trading and the characteristics of arbitrage spreads : the Canadian evidence
… defined as the percentage difference between the bid price and market price one day after the initial announcement. I also demonstrate that the cross-sectional variation of these spreads is high, and negative in some instances. Buying the targets of the entire sample and shorting their bidders …
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Continuous Pricing Algorithms for Airline RM: Theoretical Properties and Competitive Implications
… to a set of fixed fare classes and, in turn, price points, to distribute their fare products. The advent of IATA’s New Distribution Capability will allow airlines to forego these limitations, allowing them to quote any fare from a continuous range. In theory, such continuous pricing could …
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Applications of Search Theory in Finance
… essay is related to market microstructure, i.e. bid-ask spread, in which a competitive search model is proposed to re-interpret the existence of the market equilibrium bid-ask spread in a stylized security market, in which market dealers are in charge of posting an instantaneous bid price, …
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Alliance revenue management in practice : techniques and simulation analysis
… increase the combined alliance revenues by using bid price sharing, a method of sharing information related to codeshare legs. Dynamic valuation leads to additional revenue gains in the range of 0.30% to 0.50% over other techniques. This can translate into an incremental revenue gain, up to $ 100 …
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The application of failure mode and effect analysis to evaluate risks associated with outsourcing decisions
… the decision team consider more aspects than the bid price. This need gave the opportunity to develop a tool based on Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (FMEA). The typical FMEA was researched and analyzed for its ability to be an effective tool in outsourcing risk decisions. Small alterations on …
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A Methodology for Estimating the Level of Aggressiveness in Competitive Bidding Markets
Competitive bidding, where the project is awarded to the lowest bidder, is a basic part of the construction industry. This method of project delivery is designed to promote healthy competition in an attempt ensure the lowest price for the project. A contractor knows that lowering a bid price …
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Consumer behaviour in the valuation of residential property: a comparative study in the United Kingdom, Ireland and Australia
Following the house price collapse of the late 1980s there was considerable criticism of the valuation methods used by residential valuers. Essentially, valuers had failed to adequately assess the risk attached to residential property, which had negative consequences for the consumer. Critically, …
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The Framework of a Multi-Level Database of Highway Construction Performance Times
… Unreasonably short contract times can raise the bid price, restrict qualified bidders from submitting bids, reduce the quality of the work, and increase the potential for legal disputes. Conversely, unreasonably long contract times encourage less qualified contractors to submit a bid and are a …
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Essays on Investor Attention
… becoming new index members, exploiting the mean price increase that comes with the addition announcement. These findings are referred to as the pre-announcement index effect. Moreover, it documents that the observed effect is largely driven by low-beta stocks, consistent with the …
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Revenue management and learning in systems of reusable resources
… pricing and assortment settings. Further, when prices are fixed a priori, we develop a method to compute the optimal randomized state-independent assortment policy. The performance of our policies is evaluated in numerical experiments based on arrival rate and parking time data from a municipal …
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Ancillary revenues in the airline industry : impacts on revenue management and distribution systems
… adjusted virtual nesting (DAVN) or additive bid price (ProBP). Availability Fare Adjustment with Class Level Estimates also involves using class level estimates of ancillary revenue. Alternatively, we test scenarios where the airline estimates ancillary revenue for individual passengers in …
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Electrical Load Disaggregation and Demand Response in Commercial Buildings
… involving the determination of an optimal bid price for double auctioning between the user and the electric utility, in addition to a load scheduling algorithm that controls single floor HVAC and lighting loads in a commercial building, considering user preferences and load priorities. A …
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Applications of optimization in probability, finance and revenue management
… We investigate the relation of option and stock prices just based on the no-arbitrage assumption, without assuming any model for the underlying price dynamics. We introduce convex optimization methods, duality and complexity theory to shed new light to this relation. We propose efficient …
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Použití hodnotové analýzy při financování inženýrských staveb v obci
Diplomová práce je zaměřena na použití hodnotové analýzy při financování inženýrských staveb v obci. Práce je rozdělena na dvě části. První je zaměřena na vysvětlení základních pojmů veřejných zakázek a hodnotové analýzy a popisuje metody hodnotové analýzy. Druhá část je zaměřena na zjištění …