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Showing 1 to 20 of 389 for “"Goods and services"”.
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Estimating demand for environmental goods and services, now and later
… presents three papers that estimate the demand for environmental goods and services. Chapter 1 begins with a brief overview of the practice of nonmarket valuation, with discussion of previous applications and the methods that I advance in the subsequent chapters. I also provide a common …
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Studies in the Algorithmic Pricing of Information Goods and Services
… the algorithmic pricing literature by proposing and analyzing techniques for automatically pricing digital and information goods in order to maximize profit in different settings. We also consider the effect on social welfare when agents use these pricing algorithms. The digital goods considered …
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Manpower Implications of Alternate Patterns of Demand for Goods and Services
Made available in DSpace on 2015-05-12T22:33:08Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license.txt: 4848 bytes, checksum: 96035ab3f5e1c23cc7138a224ce498bd (MD5) 7206867.PDF: 13946827 bytes, checksum: 89d6a42ea1288125658c7fdb1c90adca (MD5) Previous issue date: 1971
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The broadcast marketplace : Designing a more efficient local marketplace for goods and services
Today's online marketplaces for goods and services are imperfect. Participants make an initial post expressing their intention to buy or sell an object, but all offers on this post are private. These offers can be seen as expressions of other participants' intentions to buy or sell the same item. …
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Optimization model for consumption taxation in Malaysia: a case study of goods and services tax
… the development of an optimization model and its application for consumption taxation in Malaysia. Its main idea was to propose the model, which is an individual model, linked together with firm and government behaviours, in the case of taxation in Malaysia, where goods and services tax …
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Function and Effects of Affect and Constituent Demand in Dyadic Bargaining for Economic Goods and Services
Bargaining is presented as a pervasive and important human behavior. It is defined and its role in marketing, especially marketing channels is clarified. A review of several different fields describes research that has been done on bargaining behavior by economists, social psychologists, …
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CEO pay ratios and company performance : a study of JSE-listed consumer goods and services companies
… disparity in remuneration between company CEOs and other employees is a topical and highly controversial issue globally. Theoretically, there are two explanations for this pay disparity - tournament theory and behavioural theory. Tournament theory says that employees are more motivated to …
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The Effects of Population Size, Density, Growth and Potential on The Prices of Goods and Services Across u.s. Cities
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-14T06:06:13Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 8004218.pdf: 8500791 bytes, checksum: 43d34ac368ee3b9ce93413abbdaf1625 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1979
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Municipal debt/intergovernmental fiscal relations: a study of options and guidelines in the financing of local public goods and services
… Institute of Technology, Dept. of City and Regional Planning, 1969.
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Ecosystem goods and services in semi-arid lanscape : an examination of the relationship between ecological processes, land-use strategies and biodiversity conservation
… 121, 137, x2; 20, 156 missing] Biodiversity loss and the disruption and degradation of ecosystems is proceeding at unprecedented rates. Conservation areas are insufficient to protect all species and there is growing recognition of the need to promote biodiversity conservation on private land, …
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Strategic goods provision in Hezbollah's resistance
The provision of goods and services is thought to be a key way that groups are able to gain political power. However, current work has offered a highly fragmentary view of what specific gains can be made with what type of goods provision, and what potential interaction between strategies might …
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The impact of SADC regionalisation on intra-SADC trade
… as the human race. Countries have always needed goods they were unable to produce either because of lack of resources, lack of skills or just cost related constraints. On the other hand, countries have at one time or the other been able to produce more goods and services than they can consume. …
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Non-Parasitic Warlords and Geographical Distance
… competition models found in Skaperdas (2002) and Konrad and Skaperdas (2012). I consider two non-parasitic warlords located on a line. Each warlord allocates resources for the extraction of natural resources, the production of goods and services, and conflict with the opposing warlord. Within …
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Perceptions of the effectiveness of not-for-profit board development opportunities
… service not-for-profit organizations provide goods and services that support the well being of members of society. While these organizations can vary in the goods and services that they provide and in the models that they use to provide those goods and services, they are all similar in that …
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The construction of a price index for the South African Medical Scheme Industry
… that reflects the change in the prices of the goods and services purchased by medical schemes in South Africa. The methodological choices were made taking cognisance of the unique characteristics of the South African medical scheme environment, both in terms of the factors influencing the mix …
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Supply chain risk management : (redefining the audit function within a large industrial company)
… as well. An organization must ensure the flow of goods and services end- to-end across the supply chain at the promised level and at the anticipated cost. This thesis describes the redesign and centralization of the supply chain operating model of a large industrial company, and suggests a …
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Managerial behavior, pricing policies, and resource allocation within American universities and auxiliary health clinic enterprises
… to explain differences in resource allocation and pricing policies within state and private universities, as well as within associated auxiliary health clinic enterprises. Economic theory predicts that managers within state universities will choose to spend relatively more of the university's …
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Supplier-customer relationships: a study of the application of quality management in the federal government
… support processes, including the procurement of goods and services. The system of management developed by the late Dr. W. Edwards Deming has been advanced as a candidate to accomplish such improvements. His "System of Profound Knowledge" is a robust, theoretically based framework which provides …
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Using massive online choice experiments to measure changes in well-being
… have transformed the nature of production and the types of goods and services consumed in modern economies. Yet our measurement framework for economic growth has not fundamentally changed since the 1930s. In principle, a better approach is now feasible. Specifically, changes in consumer …
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South Africa's trade in environmental goods: investigating bilateral potential exports to select developed and emerging countries (2007 to 2013)
… It threatens many economies, health systems, and livelihoods, especially for the rural poor in many developing countries. As a consequence, climate change is increasingly generating global concerns and receiving global attention. This emergent trend is accompanied by rising recognition of the …
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