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Showing 1 to 20 of 44 for “"price setting"”.
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Examining price setting behaviour in Namibia: Evidence from the manufacturing sector
Price-setting behavior is a key variable to any central bank, as it determines the nature of price stickiness and the effect of monetary policy on inflation and real variables. As a result, this study examines the price setting behaviours (behavioural mechanisms) of companies in the manufacturing …
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Examining price setting behaviour in Namibia: Evidence from the manufacturing sector
Price-setting behavior is a key variable to any central bank, as it determines the nature of price stickiness and the effect of monetary policy on inflation and real variables. As a result, this study examines the price setting behaviours (behavioural mechanisms) of companies in the manufacturing …
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Examining price setting behaviour in Namibia: Evidence from the manufacturing sector
Price-setting behavior is a key variable to any central bank, as it determines the nature of price stickiness and the effect of monetary policy on inflation and real variables. As a result, this study examines the price setting behaviours (behavioural mechanisms) of companies in the manufacturing …
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Supply Chain Design With Cross Sales, Product Design, and Price -Setting Competitive Newsvendors
… or an integrated retailer, which is modeled as a price-setting newsvendor. A multiplicative demand function incorporating a random factor &egr; is assumed. Results indicate the following: if &egr; is uniformly distributed on [0, x], then the equilibrium design does not depend on the variance of …
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Safety at what price? : setting anti-terrorist policies for checked luggage on US domestic aircraft
In this thesis, we considered the costs and benefits of implementing Positive Passenger Bag Match (PPBM) - an anti-terrorist measure to keep bombs out of checked luggage - on US domestic passenger flights. We constructed a stochastic model for comparing the cost-effectiveness of three alternative …
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Product market price integration in developing countries
Widespread empirical evidence of price discrimination in markets for goods and services suggests that national markets should be viewed as segmented rather than integrated. Yet, this research is almost entirely driven by studies of price setting behaviour in developed countries. This thesis extends …
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Market power and transportation price formation: Theory and an application to the captive shipper problem
… a spatial model of bulk commodity transportation price formation. The spatial transportation price model is first developed for the monopolist carrier. Then the model is extended to quantity-setting and price-setting duopolist carriers under incomplete cross-hauling. Measures developed from the …
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Trading in exogenous networks: a theoretical application and experimental results
… We first propose a model in which PUs can set prices and offer unused channels to SUs. We consider a small network of primary and secondary users in which the network is defined exogenously by their respective locations. In this framework, equilibrium prices depend on the structure of the …
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Working with your hands : essays on craft occupations in India
… members of an occupational group. Essay 2 : The Price is Right? Ethnographic and Field-Experimental Evidence of Price-Setting from the Sale of Handicraft Products in Southern India. Scholars of economic sociology have shown that sellers often vary prices among different buyers for short-term …
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Economic Feasibility of a Biological Control Cottage Industry in Niger
… and discusses business options for scaling, price setting, and organizing. A central question in this analysis is whether farmers can cooperatively purchase beneficial insects as a means of preventing free-riding. With free-riding as a prominent concern for businesses, this study also …
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A study of the causes of the real net-of-tax cigarette price increases in South Africa (1990-2012)
… substantial increases in the real net-of-tax price of cigarettes. Past research has presented various possible reasons for this increase, however none of this research has incorporated the effect that the international environment might have on price setting in the cigarette industry through …
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The impact of fertilizer subsidy scheme on the performance of fertilizer distributors in Tanzania
… the procedures used to set up the subsidy prices and evaluate the prices and quantity allocations given to distributors in order to measure their impact on the financial performances of the distributors. Two fertilizer trading companies, MIs Tanzania Fertilizer Company Ltd and MIs Premium …
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Data-driven revenue management
… model, the risk-averse newsvendor model and the price-setting newsvendor model. If the explicit demand distribution is known, then the exact solutions to these models can be found either analytically or numerically via simulation methods. However, in most real-life settings, the demand …
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Pricing, price stability, and post Keynesian price theory
… sive and coherent theoretical system for price cyclicality and stability since they are under-theorized issues in both neoclassical and heterodox microeconomics. In par- ticular, it develops an empirically grounded theory of price cyclicality and stability from the Post Keynesian …
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Assessment of Effectiveness of Warehouse Receipt System in Cashewnut Marketing in Tandahimba District
… was achieved by enabling farmers to get better prices for their produce and gain access to credit from commercial banks. It was also found that farmers were paid in installment basis although majority of them did not like the mode since it associated with loss of money and time on frequently …
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Profitability of Smallholder Sugarcane Farming Systems in Tanzania: A Comparative Analysis Between Block Farming and Traditional Farming Systems in Morogoro.
… achieved through TFS (M = 0.39). Yield, price and cost have significant effects on profitability of both BFS and TFS. Effects of land size and sucrose were found not to be significant on BFS but significant on TFS. Correlation between profitability and LRR is significantly high on both …
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Factors Influencing Customer’s Satisfaction in Urban Public Transport in Tanzania, “A Case Study of Public Transport in Kigoma-Ujiji Urban
… 16.0 versions. The research findings shows that price setting is determined by number of public vehicle available, number of route scheduled, number of passengers available for each route, maintenance expenses of the vehicles and running costs in terms of fuel and labour. The prevailing of these …
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Factors Influencing Customer’s Satisfaction in Urban Public Transport in Tanzania, “A Case Study of Public Transport in Kigoma-Ujiji Urban
… 16.0 versions. The research findings shows that price setting is determined by number of public vehicle available, number of route scheduled, number of passengers available for each route, maintenance expenses of the vehicles and running costs in terms of fuel and labour. The prevailing of these …
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Newsvendor Analysis of Supply Chains: Issues of Product Design and Channel Conflicts
… within a newsvendor framework. We first study a price-setting newsvendor's product design problem within the context of a centralized supply chain. We find that as a general rule, the newsvendor should lower quality facing demand uncertainty. In contrast, the change of price decision depends on …
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Edgeworth price cycles in retail gasoline markets
… are motivated by the interesting and dynamic price-setting behavior of firms in Canadian retail gasoline markets. In the first essay, I examine behavior at the market level for 19 Canadian cities over 574 weeks. I find three distinct pricing patterns: 1. standard cost-based pricing, 2. sticky …
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