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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Elastic demand"”.
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Optimal power flow with price-elastic demand
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1996.
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A Behavioral Economic Analysis of the Demand for Money in Humans
… descriptions, and unit price sequence on the demand for money in humans. Six groups of 3 participants solved multiplication problems in exchange for money under various unit prices. Consumption of money decreased as the unit price increased across all conditions. However, the data also showed …
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Three essays on differentiated products and heterogeneous consumer preferences: the case of table eggs
Consumers’ food demand has been found to be affected not only by prices and income, but also by their increasing concern about factors like health benefits, animal welfare, and environmental impacts. Thus, many food producers have differentiated and advertised their products using relevant …
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Income Taxation, Hours of Work, and Non-Monetary Job Characteristics
… shown that if the firm has less than a perfectly elastic demand for an individual's time, then the theoretical conclusions of the compensating wage differential literature no longer hold necessarily.
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An Assessment of the Use of Student Price Response Models to Predict Changes in Undergraduate Enrollment at a Metropolitan University
… first time. Many studies have analyzed the price elasticity and student price response models that have been developed over time by reviewing historical price increases and enrollment across institutions. Few studies have used the models to predict changes in the enrollment of students for one …
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Three essays on the demand system
… first essay investigates how scanner data affect demand elasticity estimates and develops methods for scientists to adapt estimated elasticities to analyses of specific policies. We conduct a meta-analysis of U.S. demand elasticities and find evidence that scanner data generate statistically …
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Estimating the international tourism demand for Egypt : 'an econometric approach'
… main factors that significantly affect tourism demand for Egypt. Both time series data and panel data are used to model and forecast tourism demand for Egypt from all origins, as well as three individual regions of origin, including Europe, Arab and the Americas. The methodological and …
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Genetically Engineered Herbicide Tolerant Canola: A Multiple Account Evaluation
… produced a cost benefit of 9 to 1. Assuming more elastic demand and supply curves dramatically increased the economic impact of the technology. As well, changes in the demand and supply changed the percent of benefit for the producers and consumers, with increases in the demand elasticity …
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Demand, supply and price of hardwood lumber: an econometric study
… the quantity of hardwood lumber supplied and demanded has fluctuated from year to year while the price of hardwood lumber has trended with the wholesale price index. During the 1970's, production and usage of hardwood lumber trended downward while price increased by over 100 percent. The …
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Integration of electric vehicles into power systems
… facing various challenges, such as increasing demand, and large-scale electric vehicle (EV) penetration. These challenges have a negative impact on the reliability and sustainability of the power system. For instance, EV charging represents an intensive electric load. Their penetration into the …
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The Effect of Public Policy on Health Service Providers
… estimates using appendectomies (for which demand is extremely inelastic) as an additional control group show a 2 percent rise in well-infant visit reimbursement during the implementation period and no effect afterwards or on well-adult visit reimbursement. Estimates imply a temporary …
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Optimizing feeder bus network based on access mode shifts
The methodology introduced in this dissertation is to optimally find a feeder bus network in a suburban area for an existing rail system that connects the suburban area with the Central Business District (CBD). The objective is to minimize the total cost, including user and supplier costs. Three …