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Discount bundling via dense product embeddings
… of jointly selling two or more products at a discount, is a widely used strategy in industry and a well examined concept in academia. Historically, the focus has been on theoretical studies in the context of monopolistic firms and assumed product relationships, e.g., complementarity in usage. …
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Rising technologies, investment and discount rates
This paper examines the recent compositional shift in corporate capital and its impact on investment's sensitivity to funding costs. I show that the rising share of intangibles in U.S firms' assets significantly dampens the stimulus effect of interest rate shocks. For a given surprise change to the …
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The discount policy of the Federal Reserve Board
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Evaluating risk-adjusted discount rates in forest investment decision making
… approach to risk in investment evaluation is to discount expected cash flows with a single risk-adjusted discount rate. When emphasis is placed on total (as opposed to systematic) risk there are no a priori criteria guiding the proper selection of' the risk-adjusted discount rate. It is unlikely …
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Social discount rates and welfare weights for public investment decisions in Turkey
… is concerned with the measurement of the social discount rate (SDR) to be used in the evaluation of public sector projects and the application of regional welfare weights (RWW) to facilitate the implementation of regional development policy in Turkey. The issue of an appropriate SDR and a set of …
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Bias-Free Joint Simulation of Multi-Factor Short Rate Models and Discount Factor
… the joint distribution of the short rate and the discount factor, so that an exact and unbiased simulation scheme can be derived for risk-neutral valuation. We see that the derivation of the joint distribution remains tractable when working with the class of Gaussian short rate models. The …
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Long Term Policy Goals Under Electoral Competition Given Varied Temporal Discount Rates Among Voters
Many important issues facing the world involve temporal tradeoffs, requiring costly investment in the short term for payoffs that accrue much later. However, politicians facing frequent elections are held accountable to voter preferences, where voters tend to be myopic, making investment difficult. …
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The effects of discount level and scarcity on the perceived product value in e-mail advertising
… to fill the gap in knowledge by manipulating the discount level and scarcity in email promotions, in which affects four dimensions of perceived product value; social, emotional, price, and quality, which in turn, influences purchase intention and positive word of mouth. (N = 207) This study is …
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Factors that impact on South African REITs trading at a discount or premium to their NAV
… Trusts (REITs) listed on the JSE trading at a discount or premium to their net asset value (NAV), known as the NAV spread. Globally, REITs have become an increasingly popular means for investing in real estate representing 41% of the global listed property industry and reaching a total market …
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Big box, no more quick fixes : a historical account of consumption, retail and discount shopping typologies
… with mixed use); (2) Peg + Podium, (stacked discounters with(out) integrated residential in urban settings); and (3) Wrapper, (discount retail surrounded by mix use). I argue that vacant regional centers have the highest propensity for repurposing as Mall Remix, but are contingent on regional …
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A study of the relationship between discount coupons and repeat behavior of customers for pizza restaurants
… study was to examine the relationship between discount coupons and repeat purchase in pizza restaurants. The objective of the study was to determine whether the relationship between pizza coupon usage and repeat purchase behavior exists. The variables, such as demographics and psychographics, …
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Recruiting, interviewing, and hiring of executive trainees by apparel specialty chain, conventional department, and discount department stores
… chain, 38 conventional department, and 35 discount department stores. Questionnaires were returned by 71 retailers, yielding a response rate of 57.3%. The sample consisted of vice presidents, managers, directors, and other retail executives responsible for the recruiting, interviewing, and …
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A Comparison of Consumers' Store Patronage Between South Korea and the United States: Suggestions for the Marketing Strategy of the South Korean Discount Stores
… Because of the increase of price consciousness, discount stores have become the stores most attractive to South Korean consumers. The purpose of this study was to (a) compare the differences between South Korean and the U.S. consumers in demographics, shopping orientation, perception of the …
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Essay on the Persistence of Corporate Diversification Discount after Merger and Acquisition Transactions and Essay on the Capital Structure Properties of Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs)
… chapter addresses corporate diversification discount. I present and test a hypothesis that diversifiers exchange immediate diversification discount with future value gain attributed to unanticipated financial and strategic advantages of diversification. Two implications of this hypothesis are …
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Information and self-selection in the PIPE market
… price, often resulting in a substantial PIPE discount. However, only a limited set of firms issues equity at such a discount. PIPE issuers tend to be low quality, less transparent firms that cannot raise capital through traditional sources. As indicators of this quality, I examine the firm's …
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