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Cost savings of contracting out refuse collection

Dijkgraaf, Elbert; Gradus, Raymond - EconWPA - 2004

The article discusses the possible cost savings of contracting out refuse collection in the Netherlands. According to foreign econometric studies, contracting out refuse collection leads to cost savings of approximately 20%. Our findings indicate that similar cost savings apply to the...

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Customer Service--A Need for Survival

Kumar, Deepak; Sinha, Pradip - EconWPA - 2005

Customers are the ones who make or break a firm. It has become of utmost importance for today’s organizations to understand the true value of customers.

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Cost Stickiness in Brazilian Firms

Medeiros, Otavio Ribeiro De; Costa, Patricia de Souza - EconWPA - 2004

Conventional cost accounting assumes that the relation between cost and volume is symmetric for volume increases and decreases. We test an alternative model where costs increase more when activity rises than they decrease when activity falls by an equivalent amount. We find, for a sample of...

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When prices hardly matter: Incomplete insurance contracts and markets for repair goods

Nell, Martin; Richter, Andreas; Schiller, Jörg - EconWPA - 2005

purchases a good to compensate consequences of unfavorable events, such as an accident or an illness. Insurance policies in most … lines of insurance base indemnity on the insured’s actual expenses, i.e., the insured would be partially or completely … reimbursed when purchasing certain goods. In this setting we discuss the interaction between insurance and repair markets by …

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Gains and losses: the same or different choices? A “non-ideal” economics approach.

Harin, Alexander - EconWPA - 2005

Ideal economics? A “non-ideal” economics approach has been proposed, which considers the possibility of arrangement infringements. It gives promises for both solving fundamental problems of economic theory and creation of new directions and fields of research. The approach application in...

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Arrangement Infringement Possibility Approach: Some Economic Features of Large-Scale Events

Harin, Alexander - EconWPA - 2004

and objectives for the first stages of insurance data analysis have been sketched out. Scale hypotheses, insurance and …

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Optimal Unemployment Insurance and Voting

Pollak, Andreas - EconWPA - 2005

insurance (UI) scheme and the voting behaviour on unemployment policy reforms. In a first step, the optimal defined benefit and …

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Equity Allocation and Portfolio Selection in Insurance: A simplified Portfolio Model

Taflin, Erik - EconWPA - 1999

A quadratic discrete time probabilistic model, for optimal portfolio selection in (re-)insurance is studied. For …

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Private Crop Insurers and the Reinsurance Fund Allocation Decision

Coble, Keith; Dismukes, Robert; Glauber, Joseph - EconWPA - 2005

This research investigates the strategic behavior of private crop insurance firms reinsured by the USDA through the …

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Pay per mile insurance

Zahid, Dr. Fayyaz - EconWPA - 2005

High insurance cost is one of the serious financial problems that today’s drivers are facing. It appears to be that in … the current time based insurance system the insurance companies are charging premiums for the risk of driving while the … vehicles are parked. Independent surveys and interviews of the insurance customers were conducted. The literature and available …

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