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Measuring Competition in the U.S. Airline Industry Using the Rosse-Panzar Test and Cross-Sectional Regression Analyses

Fischer, Thorsten; Kamerschen, David R. - 2003

oligopoly. In the second part of the paper, a cross-section pricing regression complements the Rosse-Panzar test. It shows that …

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Retail Competition in the Milk Market in a U.S. Midwestern City

Hovhannisyan, Vardges; Gould, Brian W. - 2011

The main goal of this manuscript is to explore the retailer conduct in the milk market in a U.S. Midwestern city, based …

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Commodity Price Pass-Through in Differentiated Retail Food Markets

Richards, Timothy J.; Allender, William J.; Pofahl, … - 2010

Prices for nearly all basic commodity rose at unprecedented rates throughout early 2008, only to fall nearly as fast as financial markets and global economies began to collapse. Rising food prices in 2008 led to concerns that commodity price spikes would lead to more general food inflation, but...

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Analytical and approximate variance of total project cost

Skitmore, Martin; Ng, S. Thomas - 2002

The statistical variance of total project cost is usually estimated by means of Monte Carlo simulation on the assumption that exact analytic approaches are too difficult. This paper tests that assumption and shows that, contrary to expectations, the analytic solution is relatively...

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An Insurance Approach to Risk Management in the Ethanol Industry

Paulson, Nicholas D.; Babcock, Bruce A.; Hart, Chad E.; … - 2008

The vast majority of crop and revenue insurance policies sold in the United States are single-crop policies that insure against low yields or revenues for each crop grown on the farm. But, increasingly, producer income is based more on the value of crops that have been converted into a...

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International market segmentation, and the CME Quanto Nikkei Future

Carverhill, Andrew; Schramm, Ronald - 2000

for the returns to the Vanilla contract, translated into dollars, and the dollar/Yen returns. This correlation is …

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UAB "DnB NORD investicijų valdymas" investicinių fondų rezultatų vertinimas ir prognozavimas

Barškėtienė, Toma - 2011

Finansų rinkų magistro baigiamojo darbo tema yra aktuali, kadangi Lietuvoje investiciniai fondai pradėjo savo veiklą tik 2003 m., kuomet LR Seimas priėmė kolektyvinio investavimo subjektų įstatymą. Investuotojų patirtis šioje srityje yra ganėtinai trumpa, gyventojų baimę investuoti...

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Testing procedures for detection of linear dependencies in efficiency models

Peyrache, A.; Coelli, T. - 2009

The validity of many efficiency measurement methods rely upon the assumption that variables such as input quantities and output mixes are independent of (or uncorrelated with) technical efficiency, however few studies have attempted to test these assumptions. In a recent paper, Wilson (2003)...

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Asymmetric Dependence Structures

Anthony Hatherley - 2009

, captured by the correlation matrix, and a higher order component. When these higher order terms are characterised by increased … correlation in bear or bull markets, the effectiveness of diversification strategies is reduced. To the extent that an investor is … that the joint return distribution may be described by an infinite number of higher order co-moments. Correlation (and …

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Productivity measurement and its relationship to quality in a South African Minting Company

Mtotywa, Matolwandile Mzuvukile - 2007

The aim of this study was to investigate a productivity measurement at the SouthAfrican Minting Company and evaluate the relationship between productivity andquality.Special emphasis was given to profit-linked total factor model as the tool formeasurement. This was encouraged by their ability to...

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