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The container-shipping industry's poor performance in 2011 and its continued struggles in 2012 are primarily the result … present how the global rates in container industry had dropped as the carriers added ships in anticipation of an economic … recovery, causing overcapacity. Container lines began cutting capacity and raising rates to restore profitability. The article …
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construction of a new container terminal located in Trafaria (Cova do Vapor?)Lisbon, PT. It is assumed that, in financial …
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Development of methodology for deriving the monthly unemployment statistics directly from the quarterly Labour Force Survey (LFS) results by econometric modeling meets the requirements of insuring the information on short-term needed for employment policies, aiming to achieve the objectives of...
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players. We propose a new algorithm (AL), related to one proposed by Brams and Taylor (BT), which requires only that the …
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A free earth reform algorithm is introduced, based on the concept of geo-liberty and the physics of social systems …
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asymptotically stable. Another remarkable contribution is that we develop a new algorithm, called Persistent Improvement Algorithm …, for finding semi-stable matchings, which is also more efficient than the Gale-Shapley algorithm for finding stable …
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Abstract Firms can exploit consumers' mistakes when facing complex purchasing decision problems but Gaudeul and Sugden (2012) argue that if at least some consumers disregard offers that are difficult to compare with others then firms will be forced into adopting common ways to present their...
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This paper clarifies some misinterpretations of three foundational concepts in mainstream economics from Islamic viewpoint. These are scarcity of resources, pursuit of self-interest and maximizing behavior of economic agents. It argues that stocks of resources that God has provided are...
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This paper clarifies some misinterpretations of three foundational concepts in mainstream economics from Islamic viewpoint. These are scarcity of resources, pursuit of self-interest and maximizing behavior of economic agents. It argues that stocks of resources that God has provided are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009147568
its implications. By recognition of the widespread use of imperfect cost-plus pricing heuristics, observable pricing …
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