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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Retail markets"”.
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Customer Choice Models in Emerging Retail Markets
… choice and company decisions in three emerging retail settings. We first consider subscription box services in which a provider selects the assortment of products to include in the box by taking into account the customer's preferences. Customers interested in purchasing a product choose between …
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Essays on the Industrial Organization of Retail Markets
… organization of both online and offline retail markets, trying to uncover the impact of recent trends in this industry, namely store brand and big data. Chapter 2 gives a detailed discussion about the data collection and analysis process in both online and offline retail markets. I first …
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A Real Options Approach to Modeling Investments in Competitive, Dynamic Retail Markets
The retail industry is considered to be a very competitive industry in the United States since there are so many players in the almost saturated retail markets that provide similar products and services at similar price levels to customers. Market selection has been identified as an important …
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Possibilities for DERs: Evaluating Existing and New Models for DER Participation
… participation were also examined in the form of retail markets, which have been covered extensively in past work done by MIT’s Active Adaptive Control Lab. Under these proposed retail markets, a Distribution System Operator (DSO) coordinates energy transactions with local DERs while interfacing …
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Using neighborhood indicators to understand inner city markets
… nation. Many analysts have asserted the unmet retail demand in inner-city neighborhoods and the potential for translating this demand into investment. Tapping the unmet retail demand has been considered an important strategy to accelerate the economic development in inner cities. The purpose of …
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Price Competition Reduction Strategies in Chinese B2C E-Commerce Markets: A Case Study
… in China’s e-commerce industry, where online retail markets have seen exponential growth over the last two decades. It shows that firms in Chinese online retail markets are facing heightened price competition due to reduced search costs for consumers and minimal differentiation in product …
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Game-theoretic analysis of deregulated electricity markets: From retail to wholesale
… design and operation of deregulated electricity markets. In this dissertation, we exploit tools from game theory and optimization theory to address some of these critical issues. Firstly, wholesale and retail markets are becoming more integrated due to the increasing adoption of distributed …
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The changing nature of supply chain management in the European grocery retail sector
… logistics has been an area largely neglected by retail academics. While a considerable body of theoretical research has been undertaken on marketing channels, few researchers have investigated physical channels of distribution. This is surprising in view of the changing relationships within …
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Exploring REITs for community-based retail development in China : a new strategy to create better places to live
… sub-sectors, such as rental, industrial, and retail markets. However, little research has focused on the community-based retail, and few experiments of community-based retail asset securitization have taken place. The paper attempts to propose a new strategy for China's community-based retail …
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Campylobacter fetus subspecies jejuni from some commercially processed poultry products
… of chicken necks contaminated in vitro and from retailed commercially processed poultry products. In a survival study one C. fetus strain remained viable for 5 days on the surface of poultry meat at 3ºC and for 20 days at -23.5ºC. Two strains survived on the meat surface for 10 days at -23.5ºC. …
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Evolutionary market-based resource allocation in decentralised computational systems
… a novel market-based method, inspired by retail markets for resource allocation in fully decentralised computational systems where agents are self-interested. The posted offer mechanism used requires no central or regional coordinator or complex negotiation strategies. The stability of …
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Regional estimates of the price elasticity of demand for natural gas in the United States
… However, demand response in the natural gas retail market is a potential alternative answer. To quantify the benefits of gas demand response regional and state level price elasticities of demand for natural gas must be known. In this thesis, the price elasticity of demand for natural gas in …
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Managing hyper-growth : a system dynamics analysis of competitive dynamics in business-to-consumer electronic commerce
… and market share. At ]east for now, the capital markets seem to encourage this strategy: the stock price of the leading competitor in a category (say, Amazon in online book selling) typically trades at a significant premium to the stocks of other category competitors, as a multiple of revenues or …
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Vertical product differentiation and competition in the supermarket industry
This thesis examines the mechanisms by which retail markets converge to a concentrated structure where competition is dominated by only a few large firms. Using a model of competition based on the vertical product differentiation (VPD) enciogenous sunk cost framework proposed by Sutton (1991), …
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Four Essays on Applied Energy Economics and Policy
… The second part (chapter 3 and 4) is on gasoline retail markets. The first chapter explores welfare implications of capacity markets in the electricity sector. We propose a theoretical model with cost heterogeneous firms, for which price and quantity equilibria are obtained both with and without a …
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Analytics for online markets
Online markets are becoming increasingly important in today's world as more people gain access to the internet. Furthermore, the explosion of data that is collected via these online markets provides us with new opportunities to use analytics techniques to design markets and optimize tactical …
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The managerial and organisational approaches for marketing imported fruit and vegetables within the UK
… competition. (ii) The demands of developed markets for high quality specifications, continuity of supply, branded and promoted products coupled with the physical attributes of fresh produce in terms of perishability, seasonality and the difficulty to differentiate as between sources of …
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Demand for electricity: a case in South Korea
… of electricity demand in the wholesale and retail markets, including the residential, industrial, and commercial sectors? (2) How do inter-temporal price changes affect electricity consumption, and what are the estimates of the inter-temporal electricity cross-price elasticities in the …
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Comparative Study between the US and the Colombian Market regarding Commercialization of Gasoline at the Retail Market
… is to compare the U.S. and Colombian gasoline retail market and propose marketing strategies to increase revenue by boosting sales volume and offering excellent service, based on the new Colombian market conditions. This is an appeal to conduct similar studies in Latin America due to the …
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Empirical studies of oligopolistic pricing and heterogeneous consumer search
… consumer search in explaining price patterns in retail markets for prescriptions drugs {Chapters 1 and 2), as well as a separate study of hospital-insurer bargaining in the state of Connecticut (Chapter 3). Chapter 1 seeks to establish the empirical importance of price dispersion due to costly …
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