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Showing 1 to 20 of 42 for “"Price information"”.
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Volatility and Price Information Contained in Selected Agricultural Futures Options
This dissertation assesses the volatility and price information contained in selected agricultural futures options with respect to three important dimensions: (1) forecasts of future levels of volatility, (2) forecasts of the direction and magnitude of changes in future volatility, and (3) …
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Price information channel preferences: a case study of composite feed companies
… research focused on composite feed companies’ price communication preferences. It sought to determine the extent to which the timeliness, accessibility, and relevancy of the channel influenced preferences. Also, it sought to assess if the type of business operated by feed companies also …
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Attention modes in consumer decision making: attending to the physical environment makes price more important
… affects the relative weight consumers place on price information in their judgments and decisions. Six studies provide empirical support for the framework, with the core finding being that people in an experiencing (mind-wandering) mode systematically attach more (less) weight to price …
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The effects of learning intentions and choice task orientations on buyers' knowledge of price: an experimental investigation
… the process by which buyers encode and store price information in their memories and how the information is retrieved when such a need arises. Using theories in human learning and memory, it has been argued that buyers’ learning of price information is primarily influenced by their learning …
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Rationalizing Mechanism Preference in Independent Private Value Auctions
… of sellers and buyers for the reserve price mechanism and test their rationalizability. We use a stylized independent private value environment, a second price auction institution and a first price auction institution to investigate if the preference is monetizable. We find that the …
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Market power and transportation price formation: Theory and an application to the captive shipper problem
… a spatial model of bulk commodity transportation price formation. The spatial transportation price model is first developed for the monopolist carrier. Then the model is extended to quantity-setting and price-setting duopolist carriers under incomplete cross-hauling. Measures developed from the …
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Finding patterns in timed data with spike timing dependent plasticity
… appears to be caused by another. I analyze stock price information using this algorithm and strong relationships are found between companies within the same industry. In particular, I worked with 12 stocks taken from the banking, information technology, healthcare, and oil industries. The …
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Rents, efficiency, and incomplete markets: exploring the inner workings of the emerging market for private land preservation and conservation easements
… do not operate efficiently or yield consistent price information). I make the case that the market for private land preservation–land that is preserved through the efforts of NGOs or land trusts–is an incomplete, but emerging market. Using graphical and mathematical arguments, I discuss the …
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An investigation of the effects of time pressure on consumers' perception of price, quality, and value
… sacrifice and value associated with the given price information of a product. To understand the effects of time pressure on information processing, a conceptual framework based on the process theories on attitude formation and change was developed. Unlike the existing conceptualization based on …
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Mechanisms for transfer of price risk of construction materials
… arrangement, fluctuations in materials prices expose different parties involved in a construction contract to various degrees of risk. In general, owners and/or contractors face the risk of losses when the prices of materials move upwards. Suppliers, on the other hand, face the risk of …
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Analyzing the Economic and Environmental Impacts of Agricultural Alternatives - the Case of Virginia's Eastern Shore
… highest profit potential given terminal market prices over the last five years, evaluate the feasibility of adopting new crop alternatives, given historical price information and limited production resources, and determine the potential environmental impacts of adopting new cropping strategies …
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Bayesian Applications in Financial Econometrics
… Chapter 3 studies the predictive power of oil price information for forecasting the U.S. industrial production. Oil price information is divided into two distinct categories: nominal oil price changes and oil price shocks using four definitions proposed in the literature. Previous work has …
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Intangible Assets Valuation in the Hospitality Industry
… 15 firm-years are excluded due to missing share price information. Thus, the final count of data points for casual dining restaurant firms usable for analysis purposes is 221. The annual data for quick service restaurant firms from 1980 to 2011 is also collected from the Compustat North America …
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Consumers' use of an expected future price as a reference: An investigation of the psychological and contextual antecedents
Consumers often use an expected future price of a product as a reference for judging the current price, and consequently make purchase decisions such as whether to buy and how much to buy. Extant literature has acknowledged the use of an expected future price of a product in formation of price …
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Deployment considerations for intrusion detection systems in advanced metering infrastructure
… in the field, allowing consumption, outage, and price information to be shared efficiently and reliably. The addition of this new infrastructure, connected through mesh networks, has given rise to new opportunities for adversaries to interfere with communications and possibly compromise …
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Understanding the Impacts of Data Integrity Attacks in the Context of Transactive Control Systems
… smart devices capable of exchanging energy price information and adaptively controlling the consumption of connected loads, has paved the way for transactive control to make inroads in the modern grid. Transactive control frameworks integrate the wholesale and retail energy markets, and …
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Pricing with quality perception : theory and experiment
… any product. Consumers have long assumed that price and quality are highly correlated, and that as the price of a product increases, its quality also increases ("you get what you pay for"). Several researchers have studied how consumers use price to infer quality, but very few have investigated …
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An analysis of feeder steer-heifer price differentials in the U. S
Because of a prevalent concern that feeder heifer prices are often bid below their true value, particularly in Virginia, a study was made of factors affecting price differentials between steers and heifers, and of variations in these differentials across regions and over time. The fall market sex …
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Veterinary Therapeutic and Biologic Agents in Virginia Sheep Production
… and safety. This study addressed the scarcity of information concerning the quantity of pharmaceuticals being used and the reasons for their use in sheep production. Additional goals included determining the sources of information used by shepherds in making treatment decisions and evaluating the …
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Three Essays On The Acquisition Of Information
… essays related to the problem of acquisition of information by economic agents.;The first essay, entitled "Bundled Insurance", considers the problem of screening good-and bad-risk individuals in an insurance market. Insurance markets under adverse selection are known to generate incomplete risk …
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