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Showing 1 to 20 of 52 for “"Demand Functions"”.
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Net investment and disaggregated investment demand functions
<p>Few topics in the field of economics have been as extensively researched as private business fixed investment. This paper examines investment using regression analysis and descriptive statistics. This study focuses on investment in structures and investment, with these two broad categories …
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Import and export demand functions and the Orcutt Hypothesis: evidence from South Africa
… technique to estimate both the import and export demand functions and generate the generalised impulse response functions based on cointegration and error correction procedures of Johansen and Juselius (1990) to test the Orcutt hypothesis. Our results of the cointegrated models indicate that South …
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Iterative algorithms for a joint pricing and inventory control problem with nonlinear demand functions
… setting utilizing the popular log linear demand model. We develop four algorithms that aim to solve the resulting profit maximization problem in a finite amount of time. The developed algorithms are then tested in a variety of settings ranging from small to large instances of trial data. …
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Using K-means clustering to create cost and demand functions that decrease excess inventory and better manage inventory in defense
… groupings provided the backbone of the cost functions created in the thesis. A predictive demand function was also created so that the design change's alterations to demand would be captured. The cost function was optimized using the predicted demand, to find an optimal order quantity that …
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User fee for wilderness recreation: a comparison of user characteristics and travel cost demand functions for Linville Gorge wilderness area and Grandfather Mountain backcountry, North Carolina
… socioeconomic characteristics and travel cost demand functions and analyzes attitudes towards fees to determine the extent to which fees are likely to change use behavior. No difference is found in the socioeconomic characteristics of the users of the fee and the free area, suggesting fees …
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Reserve Valuation in Electric Power Systems
… costs. In several electricity markets, reserve demand functions have been implemented to take into account the value of reserve in the market clearing process. These often take the form of a step-down function at the reserve requirement level, and as such they may not appropriately represent the …
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Demand for money in China
… long-run equilibrium relationship between money demand and its determinants in China over the period 1952-2004 for three definitions of money – currency in circulation m0, narrow money m1 and broad money m2. The appropriate dummy variable has been added into the functions to assess and evaluate …
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Coordinating inventory control and pricing strategies
… in the retail industry, where price-dependent demand plays an important role, but also in manufacturing environments in which production/distribution decisions can be complemented with pricing strategies to improve the firm's bottom line. To date, the literature has confined itself mainly to …
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Near-optimal data-driven approximation schemes for joint pricing and inventory control models
… is to match the inventory level with a random demand that depends on the price in each period, while maximizing the expected profit over finite horizon. In reality, the demand functions or the distribution of the random noise are usually unavailable, whereas past demand data are relatively easy …
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Revenue Fees Garner More Profit Than Per-Unit Fees.
… than the latter for all downward-sloping demand functions, with both a fixed number of firms and free entry.</p>
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Four Essays on Auction Theory
… auction. Two bidders with continuous, convex demand functions participate in the auction of a certain number of divisible objects. The auctioneer starts the process by announcing an initial price and by asking both bidders to submit sealed-bids (desired amounts). The auctioneer keeps …
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Price incentives for online retailers using social media
… the impact of incorporating social media data on demand forecasting and we design an optimized and transparent social loyalty program to reward socially active customers and maximize the retailer's revenue. The first chapter of this thesis builds a demand estimation framework in a setting of …
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Firms' Decisions to Enter a Market of Highly Differentiated Products: Apparel Industry and New York Fashion Week
… of the dissertation contain estimates of demand functions for apparel and determinants of the number of high-end fashion firms in the industry.</p>
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The Effectiveness of Industrial Countrys' Preferential Market Access Arrangements on Stimulating Caribbean Exports
… equation includes variables that comprises both demand and supply factors as well as dummy variables to reflect structural changes associated with preferences. The period of observation is from 1976-1986 and the estimates are based on aggregate trade and selected product groups. The second …
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Macroscopic Coupling Conditions with Partial Blocking for Highway Ramps
… problem at the junction using the supply and demand functions. The numerical approximation is carried out using a modified Godunov scheme, adjusted to take into account the effects of an emptying queue. Exact and numerical comparisons of the model with existing models verify that the number of …
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Optimal pricing for national park entrance fees in Zambia
… it then uses to estimate the parks visitation demand functions, the price and income elasticities. Using price elasticity estimates, optimal conservation fees are estimated. The study employs the contingent behaviour approach to elicit park visitors’ behaviour in response to changes in entrance …
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Short-run impacts of a value added tax on forest products
… with the tax in other countries. Then supply and demand functions in both the southern pine sawtimber stumpage and new single-facility housing sector are empirically derived. These functions are used to determine the short-run housing price elasticities of the quantity of houses sold and the price …
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Household fuelwood production and consumption in the Nepal's tarai and mid-hills: an econometric analysis and its policy implications
… and mid-hills. Fuelwood production, supply and demand functions are estimated using market, forest and access, and demographic variables characteristic of each region. Both regional and district level supply and demand elasticities are also estimated with respect to opportunity cost of labor, …
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An aggregate capital budgeting model using a product portfolio approach
… planning, in light of market supply and demand functions. Primary emphasis is on the maximization of profit, but other goals are also addressed. These are maximization of the rate of return, maximization of market share, and minimization of the cost of excess capacity. A linear mixed …
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