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Bullwhip in a Spanish Shop
Lai, Richard - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
Sebastian de la Fuente is the sixth largest supermarket chain in the Basque region of Spain. It has a novel dataset of 108,605 observations on 3,745 SKUs, collected for almost 2 1/2 years. I find the bullwhip effect in the data: at least 80% of the SKUs have a bigger variance in supplies than...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005616607
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In pursuit for impeccable veracity
Popov, Sergey V. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
I study the institution of avoiding to hire one’s school own PhD graduates for assistant professorships. I argue that this institution is necessary to create better incentives for researchers to incorporate new information in studies, facilitating the convergence to asymptotic learning of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009360271
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Information Dissemination through Official Websites: A Critique
Bhattacharya, Kaushik - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Website constructions in the world have progressed at a fast pace. However, compared to the pace of development, the issue of benchmarking of the contents of official websites has not yet received adequate attention. The paper argues that with the proliferation of official websites worldwide,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008742982
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The Ideal Economy: A Prototype
Kakarot-Handtke, Egmont - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Standard economics starts with behavioral assumptions that are formally expressed as axioms. This approach met with little scientific success but still enjoys some popularity for lack of a convincing alternative. To replace the subjective formal foundations by objective structural axioms is the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011107375
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La spesa sanitaria Ssn in Italia e nel Lazio. Ricostruzione con la metodologia Ecofin-Ocse, 1990 - oggi
SALERNO, Nicola Carmine - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Ecofin and Oecd methodology is used to reconstruct the historical evolution of public current health care expenditure for Italy and Lazio (an Italian Region). The reconstructed evolutions allow to detect what have been the per-capita expenditures per age brackets in absolute values (Euro) in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011108541
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Advances in Random Utility Models
Horowitz, Joel; Keane, Michael; Bolduc, Denis; Divakar, … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1994
In recent years, major advances have taken place in three areas of random utility modeling: (1) semiparametric estimation, (2) computational methods for multinomial probit models, and (3) computational methods for Bayesian stimation. This paper summarizes these developments and discusses their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011109965
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Proiezioni della spesa e del finanziamento dei Sistemi Sanitari Regionali in Italia [2015-2030]
SALERNO, Nicola Carmine - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
The work constructs projections till 2030 for health care expenditures of Italian Regional Health Care Systems. Three different schemes of financing are hypothesised, with three different levels of solidarity between Regions. Financing is always supposed to cover the entire exigency of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011110395
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Optimization and Simulation Modeling of Disaster Relief Supply Chain: A Literature Review
Feng, Keli; Bizimana, Emmanuel; Agu, Deedee D.; Issac, … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
mitigate the damages and save people’s lives. Optimization and simulation modeling have become powerful and useful tools to … simulation models used in the field of disaster relief supply chain. We review the literature of the facility location … simulation models on supply chain design and disaster relief distribution operations. Finally, we propose two future research …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011110517
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A Method for Experimental Events that Break Cointegration: Counterfactual Simulation
Bell, Peter N - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
event did not occur; hence the name counterfactual simulation. I describe theoretical properties of the method and show the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011110522
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A Simulation of the Illegal Coal Mining in Quang Ninh Province, Vietnam using Vensim
Phan, Tuan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
Using Vensim PLE, this paper provides a simulation of the illegal coal mining in Quang Ninh province, Vietnam …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011110653