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Showing 1 to 20 of 32 for “"demand curve"”.
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The effects of creations and redemptions in the index participation unit market : evidence of the downward sloping demand curve for equity
… papers have shown that the downward sloping demand curve for equity exists. Many of these previous studies have come to their conclusion via one of two ways. The first method looks at new equity offerings by companies and their affect on stock returns due to increase in supply. The second …
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Index participation units and their effects on the Canadian market : evidence from new issues and their redemptions of TIPs
… context of the hypothesis of negatively sloped demand curves for equities. Not only do we uncover a positive price effect stemming from the issue of TIPs for both the constituent companies as well as the T35 Index, but we also document a stronger market impact for large as opposed to small …
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Recreational facility provision effects on the estimation of derived demands for boating
… decisions require knowledge of meaningful demand and value estimates for outdoor recreation. A study was conducted to determine the effects of the learning by doing process as it relates to the physical availability of water on the demand for boating in three case study reservoir areas. The …
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Increase in Calorie Intake Due to Eggplant Grafting: Proof of Concept With the Use of Minimum Datasets
… are assessed by disaggregating the market demand curve into demand curves by income groups using their separate price elasticities of demand. Considering only price effects, the increase in yields following a per unit cost reduction due to eggplant grafting has positive effects on the daily …
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Marijuana Demand: An Instrumental Variable Approach
… data from a cross-section of the US to examine demand for marijuana. State and regional variations in consumption, price and quality are explored. Marijuana tends to be cheapest and of the highest quality in the west. The responsiveness of the demand for marijuana to changes in its price is …
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Determinants of salary in nonprofit organizations: A study of executive compensation in symphony orchestras
This thesis presents the development of a demand equation for symphony orchestras and a three equation, simultaneous model examining factors which influence nonprofit executive compensation. Results from the demand equation demonstrate that nonprofit orchestras operate in the inelastic portion of …
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Power system balancing with high renewable penetration : the potential of demand response
This study investigated the ability of responsive demand to stabilize the electrical grid when intermittent renewable resources are present. The WILMAR stochastic unit commitment model was used to represent a version of the Danish electricity and heat system with an enhanced level of wind …
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The economics of spring turkey hunting in Virginia
… The TCM, unlike the CVM, derives an actual demand curve which allows the estimation of total net economic values.
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Translating reinforcer dimensions and behavioral economic demand to inform incentive delivery in organizational behavior management
… has effectively translated behavioral economic demand curve analyses for use with work-related behavior and workplace incentives (e.g., Henley, DiGennaro Reed, Reed, & Kaplan, 2016). The present experiments integrated a hypothetical and experiential demand preparation into a computerized task …
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Optimal Investment Strategies for Flexible Resources, Considering Pricing and Correlated Demands
… 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 as a downward sloping …
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Avoiding the perils of cyclic growth on Dell's direct environment
… throughout the world - a "hockey-stick" demand skew. Such a skew derives its name from the shape of the quarterly demand curve as it is viewed across time. The demand curve is characterized by sales rates that are sluggish at the start of a quarter, before increasing dramatically by …
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The use of neural networks to help facilitate the accurate prediction of electricity demand on Crete
… season, day of the week, etc. to the load demand were performed and the conclusions drawn lead to a better understanding of the load demand curve.<br/><br/>Various network topologies were validated so that their effect on the results could be evaluated and the best one chosen. This was done …
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Ensuring Security of Supply while Decarbonizing Islanded Heavy Industrial Electricity Systems
… This strain is further compounded by the rising demand for electricity driven by data centers and artificial intelligence applications, heralding a future of potentially unrelenting load growth. In such a context, it becomes not merely prudent but essential to approach decisions regard- ing …
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An Investigation into the Contribution of Hybrid Renewable Energy System to Utility Grid in the Regions with Arid Climate
… Energy Sources (RES) on the utility grid and demand curve are very limited. This dissertation illustrates the big picture of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia regarding the current status of power generation, consumption, and the expected increase in power demand & supply, as well as availability …
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Individual and aggregate demand for higher education: the role of strategic scholarships
… within the context of a model of enrollment demand at a specific university. State or national data sources do not allow sufficient time-series to test competing explanations for the increasing enrollment rates. A two stage process models the decision to attend a university as the product of …
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Bayesian prediction of functions with applications to manufacturing and marketing
… while in chapter 4 the focus will be on demand curve prediction.
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Dynamic learning and optimization for operations management problems
… The retailer does not know the exact demand distribution at each price and must learn the distribution from sales data. We propose a dynamic learning and pricing algorithm, which builds upon the Thompson sampling algorithm used for multi-armed bandit problems by incorporating inventory …
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Some factors affecting fresh apples purchases in retail stores
… for consumers' disposable income, the per capita demand for a product may shift over a period of time. With a decline in demand (a shift to the left of the demand curve) for a commodity, the total consumption may be less than in previous years even with an expanding population. In the past four …
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Models and algorithms for ground staff scheduling on airports
… is usually carried out in several stages: In demand planning, workloads are aggregated and analysed, in shift planning, appropriate shift duties are generated, and rostering consists in generating lines of duty for the workers. These phases are strongly interrelated, and different optimisation …
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Health and Environmental Benefits of Reduced Pesticide Use in Uganda: An Experimental Economics Analysis
… sample (inconsistent with a downward sloping demand curve), suggesting perhaps that they perceived higher costs to be associated with higher water quality. Some theoretically inconsistent results were obtained with choice experiments.
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