Many experts equate the best tax system with the simplest, and the best tax reform with the one that most simplifies the system. However, the simplest, most elegant policy need not be the best because tax policy involves a tradeoff among objectives, including equity and efficiency objectives,...

The Mekong Delta in Vietnam has become an important production area for pangasius. The importance of the sector in providing an income to many households means that it is relevant to study its economic production characteristics. In this article we use a stochastic cost frontier model to assess...

in cooperation with the Greater Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and the Town of Georgetown

The U.S. smartphone market consists of all firms throughout the world that manufacture and sell smartphones to U.S. consumers. A smartphone is a mobile electronic device which runs an advanced operating system that is open to installing new applications, is always connected to the internet, and...

Arivia.kom was formed out of a merger of the information technology (IT) departments of Eskom, Transnet and Denel. The aim was to address skilled staff losses and to achieve economies of scale. Agreements were drafted ensuring arivia.kom business patronage for a period of five years.Arivia.kom's...

Consumption of alternative dairy beverages is on the rise in many parts of the world including a developing nation like Sri Lanka. During the last few decades there has been an increase of demand for healthy plant based dairy alternatives, particularly with low fat. Hence, producing alternative...

The North American lumber market is integrated and, under normal conditions, provides unhindered access to all suppliers. North American log markets, in contrast, function on different principles: in one principle, a profit allowance for the wood processor plays a role in timber pricing, whereas...

Rapidly declining gasoline prices from their record high during the summer of 2008, while ethanol prices remained relatively high, made it difficult for many bio-fuel policy modelers to fully explain the impacts of U.S. bio-fuel policies on fuel prices. Using profit-maximization models for...

Ziel dieser Diplomarbeit ist es, den deutschsprachigen Medizintechnikmarkt hinsichtlich jener Bereiche zu analysieren, in denen Produkte von AB Mikroelektronik GmbH eingesetzt werden können. Angesichts der derzeitigen Wirtschaftskrise soll dadurch eine gewisse Unabhängigkeit vom...

Die Orientierung am Kunden und dessen individuellen Wünschen ist heutzutage von großer Bedeutung. Mit Hilfe eines Produktkonfigurationssystems ist es möglich, Produkte nach bestimmten Regeln aus bestimmten Bauteilen virtuell zu entwickeln [1] und somit die gewünschten Leistungsmerkmale der...