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Value Creation and Profit Optimization
Winther, K. Tobias - EconWPA - 2002
The present paper develops a basic framework for evaluating and optimizing profits in a business operation. In developing a business we are often faced with an infinity of choices ranging from what products or services to sell and what customers to target to how to structure and manage the...
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CIRCULAR VARIABLE WORK IN PROCESS
Vildosola, Luis - EconWPA - 2002
This work is focused on identifying a circular pull production control system (PPCS) and make emphasis on the presence of a stability attribute. It is an introductory paper to an extended study of macroeconomic financial stability in a physically open but systemic closed system. Previous work...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005126234
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Estimating and testing intertemporal preferences: A unified framework for consumption, work and savings
Chin, William - EconWPA - 2004
profit function rationalizing consumption, labor supply and savings is specified, estimated and used to test commonly … maintained separability hypotheses. Both consumption- labor and time separability are rejected. Cross-price Frisch elasticities … are found not to equal zero and this in turns affects all estimates of consumption, labor supply and saving elasticities …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125687
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Consumption Patterns over Pay Periods
Kelly, Clare; Lanot, Gauthier - EconWPA - 2002
periodically but make consumption decisions on a more frequent basis. The model incorporates price uncertainty and imperfect credit … markets. The simulated numerical solution to this model shows that weekly consumption functions are ordered such that the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005135011
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Estimating and testing preferences for consumption, work hours and savings using the PSID, the profit function and the true dynamic budget constraint
Chin, William - EconWPA - 2003
profit function rationalizing consumption, labor supply and savings is specified, estimated and used to test commonly … maintained separability hypotheses. Both consumption- labor and time separability are rejected. Cross-price Frisch elasticities … are found not to equal zero and this in turns affects all estimates of consumption, labor supply and saving elasticities. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005561778
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Advertising, Pricing & Market Structure in Competitive Matching Markets
Bataille, Edner; Julien, Benoit - EconWPA - 2005
This paper develops a model of pricing and advertising in a matching environment with capacity constrained sellers. Sellers' expenditure on directly informative advertising attracts consumers only probabilistically. Consumers who happen to observe advertisements randomize over the advertised...
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THE NIGERIAN SUGAR INDUSTRY(1960 - 1987)
NWAOBI, DR. GODWIN CHUKWUDUM - EconWPA - 2005
THE CONCEPT OF AN INDUSTRY IS IMPORTANT FOR ECONOMIC ANALYSIS. HERE, WE DEFINE SUGAR INDUSTRY AS GROUP OF FIRMS PRODUCING SUGAR THAT ARE CLOSE SUBSTITUTES BY THE USE OF IDENTICAL PRODUCTION PROCESSES AND RAW MATERIALS. HOWEVER, SUGAR INDUSTRY IN NIGERIA WAS STILL IN ITS PIONEERING STAGE. THIS...
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Competition in B2C eCommerce: Analytical Issues and Empirical Evidence
Schmitz, Stefan W.; Latzer, Michael - EconWPA - 2002
competition, using a mixture of theoretical arguments and empirical evidence. We discuss two hypothesis and survey empirical … the intensity of competition in B2C eCommerce. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076898
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Automation and Management Accounting in British Manufacturing and Retail Financial Services, 1945-1968
Batiz-Lazo, Bernardo; Boyns, Trevor - EconWPA - 2003
This article looks at the effects of office mechanisation in greater detail by describing data processing innovations in major building societies during the dawn of the computer era. Reference to similar developments in clearing banks, industrial and computer organisations provides evidence as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005124974
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The Price Normalisation Problem in General Equilibriun Models with Oligopoly Power: An Attempt at Perspective
Willenbockel, Dirk - EconWPA - 2005
general equilibrium analysts using models with imperfect competition have largely ignored the price normalisation problem. In …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125640