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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Price variation"”.
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Examining Implicit Price Variation for Lake Water Quality
Hedonic models are used to estimate implicit prices for water quality in housing markets. Recent studies aggregate sales across large spatial areas in scaled-up models leading to a concern that these models may overlook regional heterogeneity in water-quality preferences. We estimate scaled-up …
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The Determinants of Land Values in Accra, Ghana
… that determine land values (i.e., vacant-lot prices). The secondary objective is to demonstrate empirically the coherent response of the 'intensity of land use' to land price variation.
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Food Security Crop Price Transmission and Formation in Nigeria
… production estimates reflect growing conditions: prices and remote sensing data in the form of the normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI). The results show that existing production estimates are poorly correlated with both prices and the NDVI. Prices and the NDVI data are highly correlated, …
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Determinants of Illinois farmland prices
… examines the determinants of Illinois farmland prices. Hedonic models are utilized to represent and analyze the defining characteristics of Illinois farmland. Models are applied to Illinois Department of Revenue farmland transfer data from 1979 to 2010. Particular attention is given to farmland …
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Tiered Provider Networks in Health insurance
… consumers to shop for health care based on price. This dissertation studies the effects of one such plan design on demand and equilibrium prices. Tiered hospital networks group hospitals by price ranking and vary consumers' out-of-pocket prices to reflect the price variation faced by the …
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Multiple asset class investing : equilibrium asset pricing evaluation of real estate risk and return across four quadrants
… pricing models with respect to how well they price risk across multiple asset classes; including the four quadrants of real estate. While using the Geltner (1999) paper as a springboard for our approach, this thesis both updates Professor Geltner's earlier work and extends its scope through …
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An analysis of the impact of the changes in the delivery procedure of the fresh shell egg futures contract
… their points of impacts: (1) on the cash-futures price relationship in the delivery month, (2) on the futures price as a self-fulfilling forecast of cash price in the delivery month, (3) on the returns to traders, and (4) on the price variation in the cash egg market. The data used in this study …
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Essays on the Economics of Insurance and Healthcare Markets
… how the financial incentives that arise due to price variation in the multi-payer system affect physician behavior when the physician has more information and the discretion to choose a treatment for the patient.</p><p>The first chapter, co-authored with Frank Sloan and Lindsey Eldred, …
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Vertical Contracting In The Us Health Care Industry
… studies the economic forces that determine prices in business-to-business health care markets. Health care is a large fraction of the US economy. In US health care markets, consumers are often insured and interact with the health care system through intermediary decision makers (health care …
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Variable energy pricing in stand alone community hybrid energy systems
… the response of domestic consumers to energy price variation. Three variable pricing approaches are then applied to the model under a range of conditions, and the impacts examined from both a community-wide and household level perspective.The thesis demonstrates the relevance and potential of …
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Variability in Pricing of Generic Antipsychotic Medications Used in the Treatment of Schizophrenia at Community Pharmacies in the Kansas City Metropolitan Area
… between April 25 and May 25, 2017 for the cash price of a 30-day supply of haloperidol 10 milligrams (30 tablets), risperidone 4mg (30 tablets), olanzapine 20mg (30 tablets), quetiapine 300mg (60 tablets), ziprasidone 80mg (60 tablets), and aripiprazole 20mg (30 tablets). Each pharmacy was then …
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Joint call admission control incorporating pricing for congestion control to enhance QoS and ensure revenue for network operators in next generation wireless networks
… A discount approach is applied to determine new price under the dynamic pricing scheme. User behaviour with price variation is impacted by change of call arrival rate and average call duration. Simulations are also carried out with flat pricing for comparison purposes. The results obtained show …
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Empirical Studies of Discrete Choice Models in Health, Fertility, and Voting
… choice context; for example, how important is price in the decision to travel by train? There are, however, potential problems with these data. There might not be enough variation of the explanatory attributes; for example little price variation across alternatives. Furthermore, several …
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An analysis of the role of financialisation, China and stockholding in agricultural commodity price movements
A wide range of commodity prices experienced a large peak in 2007/08, including many agricultural commodities. Since then agricultural commodity prices have remained at relatively high levels compared to the recent past and several agricultural commodities (e.g. maize and sugar) have experienced …
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Plan Estratégico para Coagrobrisas ltda
Actualmente el café es una de las bebidas más comunes para los colombianos, no solo se consume en los hogares, sino también fuera de ellos, ya que una taza de café fomenta las relaciones sociales. En un mercado globalizado como en el que vivimos, resulta fundamental para la Coagrobrisas Ltda. de …
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Influencia de los costos de insumos agrícolas en la variación de precios de alimentos para 2018-2023 en Colombia
El sector agrícola ha sido un motor para la economía nacional, con crecimiento del PIB agropecuario y creación de empleos, aunque afectado por fluctuaciones en los precios de insumos como fertilizantes y plaguicidas. El objetivo del estudio es analizar cómo los cambios en los costos de insumos …