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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Pricing Decision"”.
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The pricing decision of an automobile agency.
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Industrial Management, 1965.
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Three essays on financial decision making--the firm's pension decision & the NYSE specialist's pricing decision
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, 1990.
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A study on commercial property pricing in Uganda
… developers and investors while making the pricing decision. Therefore, the goal of this study was to understand how prices for commercial properties are determined in Uganda. The objectives of the study were to understand the role of conventions and social norms found in the property market …
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Transfer pricing
"Today, transfer pricing is about the a/location of income of a multinational enterprise between nations. The introduction of anti-avoidance provisions were in th~ main sufficient to deter companies from shifting profit to overseas associates through under or over pricing of cross border …
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An Empirical Investigation into the Performance of High-Yield Bond Issuers
… to Chapter 1 to capture determinants of the pricing decision for high-yield bond offerings. I find the coupon amount, the years to maturity, bonds issued for refinancing purposes and callable bonds are significant determinants in the spread at issuance. The exchange in where the firms stock …
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A bi-level programming approach for the shipper-carrier network problem
… make production, consumption, androuting decisions while carriers make pricing and routing decisions.The oligopolistic carrier pricing and routing problem, which comprisesthe upper level of the bi-level program, is formulated either as a nonlinearconstrained optimization problem or as a …
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Essays on the effects of market regulation
… of price regulation on the entry, exit and pricing decision of firms. I concentrate on the retail gasoline industry in Argentina. I study how the price regulation in place from 2004 to 2007 has affected the number of gas stations in the market and the price level after the regulation was …
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Competitive multi-period pricing for perishable products
Pricing of a perishable product over a multi-period time horizon is a challenging problem under an oligopolistic market framework. We propose and study a model for multi-period pricing in an oligopolistic market for a single perishable product. Each participating seller in the market has a fixed …
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Optimal Investment Strategies for Flexible Resources, Considering Pricing and Correlated Demands
We study the resource investment decision faced by a firm that offers two demand-classes (i.e., products, services), while incorporating the firm's pricing decision into the investment decision. For this purpose, we consider a monopolistic situation and model the demand curve of each demand-class …
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Multi-criteria analysis : an alternative approach for the evaluation of road pricing strategies
Interest in road pricing among political leaders, transportation analysts, academics, and government agencies has increased in recent years. There are myriad reasons for this newfound consideration, but the deployment of intelligent transportation systems, the desire for additional revenue sources, …
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The development of decision-making mechanisms under a bilateral monopoly in the mining industry
… This makes it essential to understand how price decisions are made within the mining industry, as such decisions influence many aspects of the economy. By nature, the mining industry tends to operate in a monopolistic market, where one decision can influence the majority of other decisions made …
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Complexity and obfuscation in evolving platform pricing
… platforms face unique challenges such as design, pricing, governance rules etc. The pricing decision specifically has been the subject of rigorous research. As the value that each group derives from using the platform depends on the size of the other side of the market, the platform's pricing …
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Analytics for online markets
… to design markets and optimize tactical decisions. In this thesis, we focus on two types of online markets -- peer-to-peer networks and online retail markets -- to show how using analytics can make a valuable impact. We first study scrip systems which provide a non-monetary trade economy …
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The floating contract between risk-averse supply chain partners in a volatile commodity price environment
… dissertation, two separate but closely related decision making problems in environments of volatile commodity prices are addressed. In the first problem, a risk-averse commodity user's purchasing policy and his risk-neutral supplier's pricing decision, where the user can purchase his needs …
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Equilibrium Implications of Social Utility and Reference Dependence
… In the second essay, I investigate how firm pricing decision and profitability are affected by the presence of reference prices and consumer loss aversion.</p><p>The first essay looks at the fashion industry, where product demand is largely driven by consumers' desire to signal their social …
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Analysis of the Benefits of Resource Flexibility, Considering Different Flexibility Structures
… we want to understand the impact of the firm's pricing strategy on its resource investment decision, considering a partially flexible resource. Secondly, we study the benefits of a flexible resource strategic approach, considering a resource flexibility structure that has not been studied in the …
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Advancements in Management Science: Applications to Online Retail, Healthcare, and Non-Profit Fundraising
… areas. Chapter 2 studies a personalized dynamic pricing problem commonly faced by online retailers. Customers arrive sequentially to the selling platform, and for each arrival the seller must make an immediate pricing decision for that customer. The seller aims to learn the demand as a function …
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Dynamic Targeted Pricing in B2B Settings
This research models the impact of firm pricing decisions on different facets of the customer purchasing process in business-to-business (B2B) contexts and develops an integrated framework for inter-temporal targeted pricing to optimize long-term profitability for the firm. Pricing decisions in B2B …