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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"refund"”.
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Three Essays in Auctions and Contests
… on these issues. Chapter 2 investigates how a refund policy affects a buyer's strategic behavior by characterizing the equilibria of a second-price auction with a linear refund policy. I find that a generous refund policy induces buyers to bid aggressively. I also examine the optimal mechanism …
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Optimal Bond Refunding: Evidence From the Municipal Bond Market
This dissertation empirically examines refunding decisions employed by issuers of tax-exempt bonds. Callable bonds contain embedded call options by virtue of provisions in bond indentures that permit the issuing firm to buy back the bond at a predetermined strike price. Such an embedded American …
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Optimal Warranties Under Asymmetric Information
… quality. In this thesis I derive price and refund schedules under which firms have no incentive to misrepresent quality, and characterize the price-refund-quality choice which maximizes expected utility when consumers have no source from which to infer quality other than prices and …
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Empirical essays on dynamic allocation mechanisms
… expectations of and uncertainty about their tax refunds, and link the survey with administrative tax and credit report data. Households face substantial refund uncertainty, and both refund expectations and surprises influence financial behavior. Households borrow in anticipation of their tax …
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INSTITUTIONAL LOCK-IN AND PRODUCER-CONTROLLED CROP RESEARCH CHECK-OFFS IN SASKATCHEWAN
… from a profit maximizing perspective. The refundable nature of Saskatchewan crop research check-offs may be one reason why farmers’ collective level of research investment has not increased in a material way. Of the nine provincially legislated crop check-off agencies, eight were …
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The Earned Income Tax Credit and Financial Capability among Native Households
EITC refunds are often substantial sums of money entering households of working families each year. Many households use the EITC to meet their basic needs such as rent, utilities, food, groceries, clothing, and other household expenses. Other EITC recipients view the tax system as a savings …
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Cyborgs in the Studio: Transhuman Vocal Approaches in Gender Nonconforming Recording Artists
… two years on hormones and i’m still sad i want a refund,” and “mirrorsong*.” I situate the analysis of these works in discussions of glitch art as politics and explore notions of embodiment of glitched sounds. Chapter 4 examines two songs by cisgender artist Merrill Garbus (she/her), “Now as Then” …
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Reduce the Penny Auction Risk: Developing A New Business Model for Penny Auctions
… significant predictors of customer retention: Refund Tickets, First Hour Reward, and Reward Systems.</p>
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Dynamic Pricing with Early Cancellation and Resale
… to the seller at an exponential rate for a full refund. We assume that a returned item is in mint condition and the seller can resell it to future customers. The objective of the seller is to dynamically adjust the price in order to maximize the expected total revenue when the sale horizon ends. …
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Multiproduct Pricing Management and Design of New Service Products
… service products, e.g., flexible warranty and refundable warranty, under customers' strategic claim behavior. Chapter 2 considers firms that sell multiple differentiated substitutable products and customers whose purchase behavior follows the Nested Logit model, of which the Multinomial Logit …
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Essays on household finance and credit market regulation
… study its effects: uncertainty about annual tax refunds. In a low-income sample for whom tax refunds can be a substantial portion of income, we collect novel survey evidence on tax filers' expectations of and uncertainty about their tax refunds; we then link these data with administrative tax …
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Optimal Pricing for a Service Facility with Congestion Penalties
… impatient and can leave the system with a full refund before being serviced. We are interested in both static and dynamic pricing for all three types of congestion penalties. In the static case, we demonstrate that there is a unique optimal price that maximizes the long-run average profit per …
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Does Experiential Learning Add Value in Financial Literacy Education: A Qualitative Investigation
… behaviors like payday loans, pawnshops and tax refund advances (PwC, 2016; Mottolla, 2014). Being financially vulnerable as young adults compounded with today’s increasingly complex financial environment (Batty et al., 2015), make fertile ground for mistakes that have lifelong impact. </p> …
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Product Returns in Closed Loop Demand Chains
… of ways, from customers taking advantage of a refund policy to warranty contracts to discards of items that have come to the ends of their useful lives. Competitive and legal forces and the need for more efficient manufacturing are now driving the need to better manage returns. A closed loop …
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Pelaksanaan akad tabarru’ pada asuransi syariah: Studi di Takaful Indonesia Cabang Malang
… the Takaful Indonesia, namely the existence of a refund system contributions (funds tabarru' and ujrah) that have been given when it unilaterally terminated the agreement by the participants before the period of the agreement runs out. Should not be any refund due to funding contributions made by …
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The Regulation of Moral Hazard in Retail Transactions
… restores the first-best requires the seller to refund the buyer and pay a punitive penalty of the buyer's loss. If the social planner can infer from a loss whether efficient efforts had been exerted, the law with contingent punitive penalty always restores the first-best with a balanced actual …
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Retirement Annuities: Optimization, Analysis and Machine Learning
… is an optimal DIA purchasing map. With Cash Refund Income Annuities (CRIA) gaining traction quickly over the past few years, the literature is growing in the area of price sensitivity and its viability when viewed through the lens of key pricing parameters, particularly insurance loading. To …
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A Study of the Feasibility of the Application of United States Command-and-Control Regulations and Market-Based Incentives to Solve Industrial Air Pollution Problems in Thailand
… an emission charge and reduction deposit refund system in order to use price as an incentive. Finally, this dissertation gives a possible example of applying this proposal in Map Ta Phut, the heaviest industrial estate in Thailand. The study concludes that although problems such as …
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Essays in Public Finance and Environmental Policy
… we provide evidence that frictions in the VAT refund system explain our results, as many of the firms we study collect no VAT on their output and therefore rely on the government to reimburse their VAT credits.
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Formal Proofs of Security for Privacy-Preserving Blockchains and other Cryptographic Protocols
… emphasis is given to the analysis of the refund policies employed, proving that the naive approach is always ineffective whereas the chosen policy discourages attackers whose stake falls below a threshold, that may be adjusted varying the protocol parameters.
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