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Admits fixing lumber prices. - "Question of jail or poorhouse" in 1916 for mill men, says Bloedel. - At federal hearing … trade commission that the company controlled prices by coercion, declared that "it was a question of the jail or the …
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Asserts lumber prices not fixed. - Seattle broker testifies in behalf of Douglas Fir Exploitation Company. - R. D. King … federal trade commission that the Douglas Fir Exploitation and Export company controlled the prices of lumber by coercion …, then he "knew that there was no effort made to fix domestic prices." …
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Weyerhaeuser Sales company, yesterday. The recent slump in lumber prices has been due to overproduction, and by curtailing the …
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Lumber price goes up. - Weyerhaeuser trustees told plan is to better earnings. - Trustees of the Weyerhaeuser Sales Corporation help their quarterly meeting yesterday at the office of the corporation in the Old National building. T. J. Humbird of Spokane, president of the Humbird Lumber company,...
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Many retailers find it useful to partition customers into multiple classes based on certain characteristics. We consider the case in which customers are primarily distinguished by whether they are willing to wait for backordered demand. A firm that faces demand from customers that are...
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This study tests the theory of rationing, examining changes in household consumption behavior during the transition to … a market economy in Poland, 1987–92. A model of consumption under rationing is developed and fitted to prereform … quarterly data from the Polish Household Budget Survey. Virtual prices, prices at which consumers would have voluntarily chosen …
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creating waiting costs. In the private sector we assume that prices approximately reflect marginal supply costs, and there are …
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typically (but not necessarily) time-invariant prices, and allowing prices to reflect how costs change. Charging "real time …" prices requires that electricity use be measured according to when one uses it. Arguments that such real-time metering should …
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is market-clearing. The other feasible trading institutions lead to rationing. To learn on which trading institutions to … the choice of institutions, market outcomes are determined by an equilibrium concept that allows for rationing. We find … that full coordination on the market-clearing institutions without any rationing is a stochastically stable outcome …
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are significantly less expensive and less effective. If financial constraints were to lead to rationing of defibrillators …
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