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Social Security's Investment Shortfall: $8 Trillion Plus — and The Way Forward:Plus How the US Government's Financial Deficit Reporting = 64 Madoffs

Hakansson, Nils H - World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

The aim of this book is to document, on a solid and convincing foundation, two public policy mistakes of the United States Government that have been extremely costly. First, the failure to combine stocks with long-term government bonds in the Social Security Trust Fund, the way other nations do,...

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An Enhanced Concave Program Relaxation for Choice Network Revenue Management

Meissner, Joern; Strauss, Arne; Talluri, Kalyan - Department of Management Science, Management School - 2011

The network choice revenue management problem models customers as choosing from an offerset, and the firm decides the best subset to offer at any given moment to maximize expected revenue. The resulting dynamic program for the firm is intractable and approximated by a deterministic linear...

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Integration-segregation decisions under general value functions:"Create your own bundle — choose 1, 2, or all 3!"

Egozcue, Martín; Massoni, Sébastien; Wong, Wing-Keung; … - Centre d'Économie de la Sorbonne, Université Paris 1 … - 2012

marketing of consumer products. Such decisions are inherently complex and depend on factors such as the underlying product …

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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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When Should Nintendo Launch its Wii? Insights From a Bivariate Successive Generation Model

Franses, Philip Hans; Hernández-Mireles, … - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2006

November 2006 most likely marks the launch of Sony’s PS3, the successor to PS2. Later, Nintendo is expected to launch the Wii, the successor to the GameCube. We answer the question in the title by analyzing the diffusion of the earlier generations of these consoles, and by using a new model...

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Interaction Between Shelf Layout and Marketing Effectiveness and Its Impact On Optimizing Shelf Arrangements

Franses, Philip Hans; van Nierop, J.E.M.; Fok, Fok, D. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2006

time, the effectiveness of marketing instruments of an SKU may also depend on the shelf layout. In practice, retailers … is twofold. First of all, we aim to gain insight into the dependencies of SKU sales and SKU marketing effectiveness on … is a standard sales equation that explains sales from item-specific marketing-effect parameters and intercepts. In a …

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Demand-Driven Scheduling of Movies in a Multiplex

Huisman, Dennis; Eliashberg, Eliashberg, J.; Hegie, … - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2007

This paper describes a model that generates weekly movie schedules in a multiplex movie theater. A movie schedule specifies within each day of the week, on which screen(s) different movies will be played, and at which time(s). The model consists of two parts: (i) conditional forecasts of the...

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Flour Supplier Selection in a Bread Factory With Fuzzy Analytic Hierarchy Process

Avci Ozturk, Burcu; Baskaya, Zehra - In: Business and Economics Research Journal 3 (2012) 1, pp. 131-131

Because of the heavy competition between businesses and uncertainty in market conditions, attainment of complete and certain information flow becomes harder. Especially, in evaluations with linguistic varibles, because of the uncertainty in speaking language, there exists some fuzinesses. In...

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Dynamic and Competitive Effects of Direct Mailings

Donkers, Bas; Franses, Philip Hans; van Diepen, van … - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2006

We propose a dynamic direct mailing response model with competitive effects, where purchase and promotion history are incorporated. We then map the dynamic competitive interactions amongst the firms sending the mailings. We investigate the short- and long-run impact of a direct mailing on the...

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Tedarik zinciri ağ tasarımı ve bir uygulama

ULUDAĞ, Ahmet Serhat; EROL, İsmail - In: Iktisat Isletme ve Finans 23 (2008) 267, pp. 89-115

Günümüz iş dünyasında yaşanan yoğun rekabet; kısa, orta ve uzun vadeli kararlar almak zorunda olan tüm firmaların karar süreçlerini etkilediği gibi; üçüncü parti lojistik (3PL) firmalarının karar süreçleri üzerinde de belirleyici rol oynamaktadır. Tedarik zinciri ağ...

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