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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Price Difference"”.
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Restaurant Revenue Management: Effects of Customer's Perceived Scarcity of Capacity and the Price Difference on Perceived Value and Fairness Perceptions
… perceptions of RM practices. In addition, the price difference between high-demand periods and low-demand periods may have differential impacts on customers' perceptions of value of the restaurant's expected offering and the fairness of RM practices. Based on commodity theory and equity theory, …
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Are changing margins factored into stock prices?
… return, including autocorrelation of the stock prices, using the P/E ratio or more recently using the GP/A ratio. Having clear evidence that the GP/A ratio is useful to predict future stock return, this paper asks whether margin, which is GP/net sales, if changed, is factored into stock prices. …
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Economic effect of implementing electric cars
… Icelanders due to relatively low domestic energy prices, but this paper finds that since EVs are generally more expensive to purchase than traditional cars the average consumer must drive for years before truly receiving the benefits of low refueling costs. The relatively higher list prices (and …
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The notion of buying architecture : a proposition of strategic architecture for urban economic contexts
… the residents who cannot afford the housing price difference are pushed to move out of their communities or even forcefully evicted. This thesis starts by acknowledging that there is a huge gap understanding of the value of land, communal life, and architecture between development-involved …
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Essays in behavioral decision making
Essay 1: Zero as a Special Price: the True Value of Free Products. When faced with a choice of selecting one of several available products (or possibly buying nothing), according to standard theoretical perspectives, people will choose the option with the highest cost-benefit difference. However, …
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Three papers on the behavior modeling of the shrimp fishermen in the Gulf of Mexico
… choice (state dependence), and the fishermen’s difference in preferences (preference heterogeneity). The results show that past experience does affect current decision, but the influence dies out fast. In addition, fishers are different in their preference in many aspects. Also, it seems that …
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The assessment of using SI engines for medium-duty applications
The price of diesel is projected to go up due to increasing demand. The price differential of diesel and gasoline is accordingly projected to increase. As a consequence of the diesel fuel price premium, a diesel engine must be significantly more efficient in terms of gallon/mile or liter/km, just …
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Determinants of the spatial dynamics of housing prices in Chengdu, China, 2005-2010
Housing unit prices differ among 75 street blocks per time period in Chengdu, China. Housing unit price's appreciation also moves differently in the 75 street blocks between 2005 and 2010. With solid transaction data acquired from Chengdu Housing Administration Department, two regression models, …
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Essays on the demand for ethanol in the United States: willingness to pay for E85
… preferences for E85 and investigate locational differences. The studies obtain revealed-preference (RP) data from flex motorists refueling at E85 stations and stated-preference (SP) data from surveying the flex motorists and presenting hypothetical scenarios. The second study uses the RP data to …
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Efficiency of Water Markets under Prior Appropriation: Evidence from Permanent Water Rights Sales in Nevada
… water right-level and basin-level drivers of prices of water right sales to evaluate the efficiency of water rights markets under prior appropriation in Nevada. We use a new dataset of all reported water rights sales in Nevada between 2006 and 2019. Our findings show that characteristics of …
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Essays on Firm Heterogeneity and Export: Productivity, Quality and Access to Finance
… Bernard et. al, 2003) have largely focused on differences among firms in terms of an exogenously given productivity which would explain why only some firms self-select into international markets while the others serve the domestic market. Empirical evidences, especially from developing …
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Dietary intake, cost of foods and associated factors of women with gestational diabetes
… of GDM. Although basic healthy foods had minimal price difference in comparison to unhealthy foods and despite the efforts to calculate healthy diets at minimal costs, limited income and monthly costs can significantly burden low-income households, making adherence challenging without governmental …