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Showing 1 to 20 of 150 for “"bids"”.
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The role of public opinion in Africa's third term bids
… effects on the outcomes of the third term bids that have occurred in the post-transition period in Africa. We focus on three public opinion variables that we believe to be critical in explaining variation across these outcomes: popular opposition to authoritarian rule, presidential …
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Essays on bids and offer matching in the labor market
This dissertation is a collection of essays on bids and offer matching in a labor market for new entrants to white-collar jobs. The papers compare some of the different institutions for determining wages and conducting the hiring process in the market for new entrants to white collar jobs. The …
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Timing of initial public offerings, seasoned equity offerings and takeover bids financed with equity: UK evidence
… the announcement of the recent equity financed bids is smaller. It has been widely documented that firms which make an IPO, a SEO and a takeover bid that is financed with equity offer inferior returns to their shareholders in the post-issue period. Cognitive bias and deliberate timing of these …
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Understanding Minority Shareholders Protections in Relation to Mandatory Bids Rule: A Comparative Study Between Kuwait law and U.S Law
… shareholders without adopting the mandatory bids rule and the board neutrality rule? Can Kuwait have her owns approach in protecting minority shareholders in the sale control transaction? In answering these questions, this dissertation offers three critiques of the system goals. First, the …
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Promoting retail to revitalize downtowns : an examination of the business improvement district idea
… adopted by business improvement districts (BIDs) in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada. The popular belief among practitioners is that where the BID approach has been adopted, downtowns have become vibrant retail destinations. However, there is no evidence to support or …
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Homelessness in the West: business improvement districts as the strategic weaponization of class monopoly rent
… is to examine business improvement districts (BIDs) as a form of class monopoly rent (CMR) within the broader production and spatial management of the ongoing homeless crisis in Seattle Washington. The city of Seattle Washington is home to a plethora of successful and ever-expanding …
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Licitações sustentáveis: um levantamento de iniciativas adotadas pela Universidade Federal da Paraíba - UFPB
… implementation of sustainable politics in public bids. Thus, the general objective of this study is to verify the implantation‟s process of social-environmental parameters in public bids that are performed by Universidade Federal da Paraíba (UFPB), member of indirect public administration. In more …
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Reducing government proposal procurement process complexity
… of inputs, including the number of parts and bids sent out as well as suppliers and price points solicited, and 2) improving the design of the bid strategy, the determination of which parts are bid out to which suppliers, how to group these suppliers and parts into bids, and who should manage …
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Four Essays on Auction Theory
… and by asking both bidders to submit sealed-bids (desired amounts). The auctioneer keeps increasing the price until the total amount of bids is less than the total supply. This mechanism has been used to sell stocks of government owned companies under the Brazilian Privatization Program. We …
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Electricity Markets Price Risk, Pollution, and Policies
… in the context of transaction costs on virtual bids. Virtual bidding has been introduced in most restructured electricity markets in the United States with the intent to manage price risk, increase financial liquidity, and minimize deviations between forward prices and spot prices. Previous …
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No more hats thrown into the Olympic rings: an analysis of the Olympic bidding process
… the Olympics and uncover the roots of successful bids, I analyze four case studies of former United States bids. These case studies include: Denver’s withdrawn bid for the 1976 Winter Olympics, Los Angeles’ successful bid for the 1984 Games, Boston’s relinquished bid for the 2024 Olympics, and …
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A dynamic model of the electricity generation market
… information for the generators to estimate their bids. The next bids of each generator are proposed as functions of the previous and current bids. Results from the dynamic model show that the generators' bidding strategy affects the dynamics of the modeled power market. Different strategies yield …
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Risk penalties for enhanced reliability in co-optimized markets with uncertain generation
… alternate designs in which firms combine energy bids associated with uncertain real-time availability with stable reserves bids. Such a study is carried out in a regime where firms have access to a day-ahead market, an uncertain real-time energy market and a reserves market. The resulting …
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Analysis of automatic guided vehicles and self-guided vehicles for hospital foodservice
… hospital foodservice; Data is derived from the bids of Apogee Robotics for their Orbiter{dollar}\sp{\rm TM}{dollar} system (AGV) and Transitions Research Corp for the HelpMate{dollar}\sp{\rm TM}{dollar} self guided robot, to Humana Hospital Sunrise. The major difference between the two systems …
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Reservation Prices and Willingness to Accept Price Offers for Nonindustrial Forest Landowners in Western Virginia
… private forest landowners to accept bids of various levels for harvesting. Through the use of a survey we specifically consider what preferences and landowner characteristics effect these decisions. Landowners were randomly selected from counties in Southwest Virginia. The …
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Consequences Of Normative Body Image Dissatisfaction: The Development Of Two Scales
… scales, the Body Image Dissatisfaction Scale (BIDS) and the Consequences of Body Image Dissatisfaction Scale (CoBIDS).</p> <p>Specifically this study examined the interaction between body image dissatisfaction, sex, sexual orientation, self-esteem, depression, and anxiety. The previously …
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Speculation and hedging with virtuals
… electricity markets. Theoretically, virtual bids and offers can change the electricity price as the bids and offers are stacked along with the demand and supply, respectively. This dissertation discusses how virtuals can be used to hedge and speculate in the electricity market. A statistical …
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Pre-bid network analysis for transportation procurement auction under stochastic demand
… real-life industrial problem of creating package bids for a company's transportation procurement auction. The purpose of offering package bids is to increase the carriers' capacity and to improve the reliability of services. In this thesis, we investigate the possibility of forming packages using …
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Forward-looking bidders in sequential auctions
… bid less than they would otherwise, and early bids decrease with the private values of later objects. The model's predictions are tested in two laboratory experiments, both involving a sequence of two auctions. Both experiments show that first-auction bids decrease with the private values of …
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Online Auctions with Multiple Items
… problems related to how an advertiser can select bids to maximize her cumulative reward when participating in a sequence of single-item f irst-price auctions, or a sequence of several first-price auctions that take place in parallel. In particular, we study the problem of regret minimization in …
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