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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"reservation price"”.
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Dynamic Pricing with Early Cancellation and Resale
… customer either purchases the item if the posted price is lower than his/her reservation price, or leaves empty-handed. After purchasing the item, some customers, however, will return the item to the seller at an exponential rate for a full refund. We assume that a returned item is in mint …
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A model of the entry decision of potential raiders into the bidding for a target firm
… depends on the takeover cost, the target's reservation price and the distribution function of the raiders' valuations. We also consider the case where one of the raiders is a large shareholder and the role of management in maximizing the shareholders' interests. We find that raiders delay …
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A timber supply model and analysis for southwest Virginia
… demands and increasing supply costs on delivered prices and quantities in southwest Virginia. Homogeneous supply response cells, identified from Forest Service forest survey data, were used to generate log and bolt supplies. Response cells define blocks of forest land with similar biologic, …
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Analysis of the predictive ability and profitability of an analytically derived trading algorithm in the intra-day spot foreign exchange market
… years of hourly data. This trading rule, the reservation price policy (RPP), stems from the computer science literature and, based on certain assumptions, is shown to be efficient under the worst-case scenario criterion. The results indicate the existence of significant information content in …
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Essays on Population and Housing Market in South Korea
… First is the unconditional distribution of the reservation price of fertility, which is the minimal compensation an agent must receive to induce her to have a child. Second is the infra-marginal ratio of spending, which shows the fraction of the program's budget spent on infra-marginal births. …
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Essays On Population And Housing Market In South Korea
… First is the unconditional distribution of the reservation price of fertility, which is the minimal compensation an agent must receive to induce her to have a child. Second is the infra-marginal ratio of spending, which shows the fraction of the program's budget spent on infra-marginal births. …
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Pricing Decentralization in Customized Pricing Systems and Network Models
… settings. Within most organizations, the final price of a product or service is usually the result of a chain of pricing decisions. This chain may consist of different departments of the same company as well as different companies in a specific industry. Understanding the implications of such …
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Three essays in decision making
… disadvantageous with respect to perceived market prices. The endowment effect appears to be caused by inflated selling prices because market prices usually exceed the value of ownership to consumers. But I show that reducing reference prices relieves sellers' transaction disutility, shrinking or …
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Optimizing loblolly pine management with stochastic dynamic programming
This study examines effects of unpredictable price fluctuations and possible catastrophic losses on the optimal site preparation intensity of un thinned loblolly pine plantations under the assumption of lisk aversion. It concentrates exclusively on financial motives and does not take non-market …
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Multimarket Search
The extensive literature on searching for price information deals almost exclusively with the search for the price of a single good. Since consumers would like to maximize the utility of consumption, a more general problem than minimizing the price of one good, search theory should consider the …
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Individual and aggregate demand for higher education: the role of strategic scholarships
… occurred despite increases in real tuition prices since 1985, constant (nominal) levels of federal Pell grants per recipient, and declining numbers of high school graduates. This dissertation examines the admitted applicant's decision to enroll and aggregate (state/county) enrollment at a …
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Reservation Prices and Willingness to Accept Price Offers for Nonindustrial Forest Landowners in Western Virginia
The purpose of this thesis is to examine what motivates nonindustrial 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 …
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Non-industrial Landowners, the Incentive to Forego Harvesting, and the Importance of Scale of Activities
… to harvest using a range of harvesting prices. An interesting problem that has not been previously examined is the determination of the relationship between the decision to harvest and the characteristics of owners and their land, such as preferences, landowner type (absentee vs. …
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Targeting Nonindustrial Private Forest Landowner Groups for Timber Market Entry
… private landowners. It involves examining reservation prices both for harvesting timber from existing forest land and for afforestation of marginal agricultural and abandoned land. An important conclusion drawn from these models is that financial returns are not the only drivers of these …
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Pricing, Variety, and Inventory Decisions in Retail Operations Management
… product line ("assortment"), together with their prices and inventory levels, so as to maximize her expected profit. We model the consumer choice process using a multinomial logit choice model and consider a newsvendor type inventory setting. We derive the structure of the optimal assortment for a …