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Saving the Mekong River Basin
Houba, Harold; Do, Pham; Hang, Kim; Zhu, Xueqin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
The Mekong River (MR) is shared by six countries: China, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam. Over the years there have been both conflict and cooperation on managing the water resources to meet population growth, climate change and the desire for economic development. Currently, the...
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A new theorem for optimizing the advertising budget
Wright, Malcolm - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
This paper reports a new theorem and proof for optimizing the advertising budget. The theorem is that the optimal rate of advertising is equal to gross profit multiplied by advertising elasticity. This does not involve a ratio of elasticities, and so is an advance on the Dorfman-Steiner theorem...
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Choosing put option parameters based on quantiles from the distribution of portfolio value
Bell, Peter Newton - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
This paper explores how a put option changes the probability distribution of portfolio value. The paper extends the model introduced in Bell (2014) by allowing both the quantity and strike price to vary. I use the 5% quantile from the portfolio distribution to measure riskiness and compare...
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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 … help decision makers tackle problems related to disaster relief supply chain. This paper reviews optimization and … optimization problems of disaster relief supply chain under different types of disastrous events. We review the literature of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011110517
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Modelování optimální výše zápisného na české veřejné vysoké školy
Mazurek, Jiří - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
Public universities in the Czech Republic suffer from insufficient funding for many years. One possibility for an increased funding of Czech public universities is an introduction of a low administrative fee called enrollment fee for each semester of a study. The aim of this article is to show...
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The Universitary Educational System, Cibernetic System
Dima, Ioan Constantin; Mihaescu, Diana; Mihaescu, Liviu - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
The national system of higher education shall solve one of the most difficult and most important social and human issues – the education and training of the young generation, of the labour hand. The system of higher education appears as a subsystem of the national educational system and of the...
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Relevant States and Memory in Markov Chain Bootstrapping and Simulation
Cerqueti, Roy; Falbo, Paolo; Pelizzari, Cristian - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
transition probabilities. Our approach is based on an optimization model. More specifically we consider two competing objectives …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259232
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Developing a hybrid comparative optimization model for short-term forecasting: an ‘idle time interval’ roadmap for operational units’ strategic planning
Filippou, Miltiades; Zervopoulos, Panagiotis - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
individual operational units. This study introduces a stochastic, multi-stage, optimization technique for short-term forecasting …
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An alternative to portfolio selection problem beyond Markowitz’s: Log Optimal Growth Portfolio
Muteba Mwamba, John; Suteni, Mwambi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This paper constructs an alternative investment strategy to portfolio optimization model in the framework of the Mean … normally distributed. The traditional Mean–Variance optimization approach has only one objective, which fails to capture the … problem. The proposed optimization model which is an optimal portfolio strategy is produced for investors of various risk …
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Identifying product attributes and consumer attitudes that impact willingness-to-pay for a nutraceutical-rich juice product
Lawless, Lydia J.R.; Drichoutis, Andreas; Nayga, Rodolfo; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
A non-hypothetical Becker–DeGroot–Marschak (BDM) auction-like mechanism was utilized to determine consumer characteristics, attitudinal factors, and product sensory attributes that affect willingness-to-pay (WTP) for a nutraceutical-rich juice blend (75%Concord+12%Pomegranate+13%Black...
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