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Showing 1 to 20 of 31 for “"retail prices"”.
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Retail prices and the real exchange rate
This paper uses daily frequency relative prices gathered from online retailers for a basket of countries to investigate the Purchasing Power Parity relationship, exchange rate pass-throughs and the effect of price shocks on nominal exchange rates. We fit a structural VAR model on exchange rate and …
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The Effects of Changes in Sales Tax Rates on Retail Prices
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Survey on retail prices of prescription drugs in Uganda : an inter-regional comparison
… factors that are responsible for disparities in retail prices of prescription drugs in Uganda. The study also came out with methods that can be used to minimise these disparities and to control retail prices of prescription drugs in Uganda.
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Economic reforms and product market integration in developing countries : an empirical investigation using retail prices in Zambia
… exposure to external competition affect domestic prices and internal product market integration using Zambia as a case study of a developing country in Sub-Saharan Africa. The empirical analysis is conducted in four inter-related papers. The thesis chapters are organised as follows: The first …
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Retail Price Time Series Imputation
… intervals. Here we consider regular, discrete, retail price time series datasets acquired through crowdsourcing. Crowdsourcing is a means of data collection whereby independent individuals push publicly-available information to an information consolidator who then distributes it back to the …
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A Need for Government Intervention? Prescription Drug Prices and Retail Mark-ups
… to ease the burden of skyrocketing prescription prices for citizens 65 and older. While much of the discussion has focused on the impact on Medicare and Medicaid, the search for the source of high prescription drug prices has possible benefits for all patients. Unfortunately, the vast majority of …
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The structure of equilibrium marketing channels: Common versus exclusive retailers
… Important marketing decisions, such as prices and the level of promotional services, are often delegated to members of the marketing channel with divergent individual incentives. In this dissertation, I study equilibria in marketing channels in a differentiated product duopoly consisting …
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Impact of government regulation on the dairy industry in the United States
… support program. These two programs regulate prices received by farmers. Some states also regulate retail prices for milk. This paper examines the retail milk markets in three areas: (1) the impact of government milk regulation on retail prices for both fluid and manufacturing milk; (2) the …
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Slotting Allowances, Failure Fees and Asymmetric Information in the Grocery Supply Chain
… accurately designed menus of contracts including retail prices, slotting allowances, failure fees (or success rebates) and sales targets can separate products by their demand distributions and alleviate asymmetric information problems. Adverse selection problems can be reduced by utilizing such …
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Essays on telecommunications demand and regulatory policies
… the effect of regulatory policies on mobile retail prices. Using aggregated quarterly data for eight African countries for the period 2010:Q4 to 2014:Q4, we estimate structural demand and supply equations. We find that mobile termination rates (MTR) have a significant positive impact on …
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Essays in industrial organization and urban economics
… chapters of this thesis study the wholesale and retail tier of the beer supermarket sales. In the first chapter, I am interested in consolidation of distributors in the beer industry and its interaction with the uniform pricing by retailers. I build a theoretical model which illustrates how …
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Essays on market structure and price in the Korean retail gasoline market
… the relationship between market structure and prices in the Korean retail gasoline market. Korea has experienced big changes in the number of gas stations. For example, nationally the number of gas stations increased 24.9% from 10,406 in 2001 to 13,003 in 2010, but in Seoul the number of …
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Category captainship: delegation, participant selection and category extensions
… category management strategy. In this strategy retailers delegate their control of product categories to one of the manufacturers operating within that category, who is referred to as the ``category captain''. As this practice is new, many answers regarding the optimal implementation of category …
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A comparison of threaded versus non-threaded computing on the sieve of Eratosthenes Algorithm
… that enabled multiprocessing at affordable retail prices. This in turn created an opportunity for software developers to enhance program performance by creating software that could leverage on the underlying architecture through parallelisation to provide a performance advantage over …
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THE ECONOMICS OF MOBILE INTERNATIONAL ROAMING
… witnessed a downward trend in mobile domestic prices. On the contrary, international roaming prices remained reluctant to follow the domestic trend. In Europe, the service has been regulated with price cap since 2007, and regulation is maintained for years to come. The existing literature on …
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The effect of removing tariffs and domestic taxes on insecticide treated nets (ITNs), netting materials and insecticides in Zimbabwe
… and insecticide providers, wholesalers and retailers and some key personnel in the overall ITN industry to gather information on production, sales and marketing trends. The analysis revealed that there are indeed gains to be realized by both the consumer and the private sector if tariffs and …
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Markdown sharing policies as trade incentives in uncertain markets
… such as markdown allowances as incentives to retailers. These savings, if passed onto consumers in the form of lower retail prices, can stimulate consumer purchases and thus enhance the manufacturers' profits. Retailers, however, may not pass savings onto consumers, thus rendering markdown …
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Essays in industrial organization
… the effects of technological advances on the retail gasoline market. Since 2008, a Korean government website has posted daily prices of all gasoline stations. Combined with the rapid increase of smartphone and mobile technologies, this price information service may have changed the consumer …
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Controlled Release of Antioxidants via Biodegradable Polymer Films into Milk and Dry Milk Products
… size parameters and manufacturers suggested retail prices matching the auction records. Macroeconomic indicator values were collected from a variety of sources, including government agencies. The data were brought into the same electronic format and were matched by model name and calendar …
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