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Showing 1 to 20 of 37 for “"Domestic markets"”.
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Price competition in the top US domestic markets : revenues and yield premium
… between Legacy and low cost carriers in the US domestic markets by analyzing the Top 1000 US domestic markets. A new metric is introduced, the yield index, that compares fares among airlines in specific markets in order to quantify the fares collected by major airlines with respect to their …
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Improving domestic markets for the wood products of reforestation programs: a case study of eucalyptus in northwestern Senegal
… opportunity for the use of eucalyptus in the domestic sawn wood markets of Senegal. It is hoped that with increased economic incentives the local population will become more inclined to plant trees. It is therefore important to identify the market opportunities for the products of …
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The world-wide news agencies: development organization, competition, markets and product. A study of Agence France Presse, Associated Press, Reuters and United Press, to 1975
… respond primarily to the requirements of western markets. In particular, their domestic markets are shown to be especially important to them, and much of their early development is explained by their struggle to secure monopolistic or oligopolistic control of these markets. The struggle to, …
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Use of modified atmosphere packaging to extend the shelf-life of whole and pre-cut lettuce
… additional shelf-life of pre-cut lettuce on domestic markets will provide greater flexibility during distribution and marketing, since storage life of these products decreases rapidly after processing.
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Differences in market-oriented behaviour levels across firms' domestic and export marketing operations:a study of antecedents and consequences
… market-oriented behaviour differs across firms' domestic and export marketing operations. In this respect, the study is the first of its kind since it investigates three main issues: (1) to what extent do differences exist in firms' levels of market-oriented behaviour in their domestic markets …
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GLOBAL PRODUCTION NETWORKS, STRATEGIC COUPLING AND THE DYNAMICS OF INDUSTRIAL UPGRADING IN PEARL RIVER DELTA, CHINA
… body of regional assets and emerging huge domestic markets are important institutional-spatial conditions that foster the variety of coupling and lead to different outcomes of local upgrading.
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Internal stock market returns and systematic risk factors. An empirical investigation into the APT using macroeconomic factors and multivariate estimation
… of eliminating arbitrage opportunities across domestic markets, and the validity of the international version of the APT according to a model that specifies purely domestic factors. Starting with ordinary least squares estimation the thesis investigates the responses of investors in their …
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Autos for Africa? : possibilities and pitfalls for an automotive industry in Africa
… apart from South Africa, there is almost no domestic production. The dissertation establishes the trends and scale of automotive demand in SSA and then considers the question of whether and how the region can begin to meet this booming demand by developing its own industry. Despite limited …
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Export marketing decision-making by wood household furniture manufacturers in Malaysia and the United States
… furniture. For U.S. manufacturers, potential markets are its NAFTA partners - Saudi Arabia, the European Union, and the Pacific Rim countries. However, U.S. companies need to focus more on exporting and not be totally dependent on the domestic markets. As for Malaysian manufacturers, the U.S. …
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New possibilities for expanding Pan-African commerce
… integration, value chains, social policies, domestic markets, wage-led growth, and the costs and benefits of regional collaboration. The study examines how the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) can spur growth and development across the continent, highlighting the transformative …
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Assessing the Impacts of a Special Safeguard Mechanism for Agriculture in the Doha Development Agenda
… declines, and could potentially add stability to domestic markets. While most of the parameters of this SSM have been decided upon, the DDA negotiations faltered on the issue of whether or not developing nations should be allowed to exceed their pre-Doha bound tariff rates when invoking the SSM. …
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The history and evolution of the residential mortgage market in Mexico : a look at its future
… other sources of capital, both foreign and domestic, to the housing market. The key elements of structuring these securities lie in the underwriting standards and loan origination systems that are effectuated. Poor origination and collecting practices will hinder the success of …
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Growth and Stagnation in Developing Economies: a Structural Approach
… wages and investment, it has recovered domestic markets. Nonetheless, even in face of a more diversified demand, Latin American countries have specialised in the production and exports of less technologically advanced goods, increasing the asymmetry between the structures of demand and …
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Korean institutional investors and real estate investments
… under management, intensifying competition in domestic markets, and recent low-interest market environments have all led Korean institutional investors to pay more attention to the global markets. Their real estate investment practices in the global market have been diversified in terms of the …
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Import and export demand functions and the Orcutt Hypothesis: evidence from South Africa
… are predominantly influenced by income-both domestic and foreign-, relative prices, exchange rates. The results of the generalised impulse response analysis confirm the existence of Orcutt hypothesis in the South African import demand model and reject it in the case of export demand. …
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SMEs and global supply chains in the French agricultural machinery sector
… In response to increasingly competitive domestic markets, many of these firms are now engaged in supplier and customer relationships internationally, in order to expand sales and take advantage of lower sourcing costs. This transition from predominantly local to global connections and the …
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Mathematical Models of Seaside Operations in Container Ports and their Solution
… means of distributing goods made overseas to domestic markets in most countries. They are expensive to build and difficult to operate. We describe here some of the main operations which are faced daily by decision makers at those facilities. Decision makers often use Operational Research and …
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Trends in passenger demand and airline supply of top 25 long-haul U.S. dometic [sic] markets
… and airline supply of the top 25 long-haul U.S. domestic markets by measuring the annual and overall percentage changes in passenger traffic, airfare, nonstop flight frequency, total nonstop seat capacity, and average aircraft size over the time period between 1987 and 1995, and quantifying the …
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Apostles and brigadistas : industrial transformation with social gains in two Central American agro-industries
… focus on low priced products sold in protected domestic markets. Over the next two decades, processors in both adopted new production models and business strategies that modernized their technologies and work organization, raised labor standards and wages, and repositioned them as formidable …
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Essays on Adapting to Extreme Shocks: Local Market Correlations and Global Agricultural Trade Responses to Weather and Yield Variability
… and yield variability affect local agricultural markets and global agricultural trade, offering insights to improve resilience and adaptability. It comprises three chapters. The first chapter analyzes the co-movement of corn basis returns among six local market pairs in North Carolina during …
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