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objectives. There are two main pricing strategies that firms may use to defend against a competitive market entry. The first of … these options, limit pricing (or entry deterring price), may be utilized prior to competitive entry. The second option …, aggressive (predatory) pricing, may be executed post-entry. The effectiveness of both of these options is still controversial …
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pricing and negotiation. Hence, this dissertation visits two problem domains in operations management, assuming that a …-constrained manufacturer's wholesale pricing problem, assuming that the retailer is free to choose sales formats. The first problem considers a … price that a retailer would choose in the take-it-or-leave-it pricing. This price premium helps the retailer extract more …
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Die Arbeit hat das Ziel, die ursprünglich rein kapitalmarkttheoretisch ausgelegte Optionspreistheorie für das … den Leitlinien der Optionspreistheorie folgen.Mit einer auf die 16 führenden Pharmaunternehmen bezogenen empirischen … well-established applications of option pricing theory in financial markets. So far, the literature on real options is …
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This paper provides an empirical validation of the Peterson, Wysocki & Harsh (PWH) framework for coordination strategy decisions, drawing evidence from four firms' procurement strategies in São Paulo's fresh produce markets. The results support the hypothesis that the PWH framework provides...
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An economic model was developed to analyze the put optioncontract role to stabilize prices in the paddy market. The possibility ofusing Federal Government Acquisitions (AGF) to complement the optioninstrument was considered. The role of the options was to reducethe risks of storing the product...
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We study the cyclical fluctuations of leverage and assets of financial intermediaries and GDP in the United States. Leverage and assets are several times more volatile than GDP, and experience larger fluctuations for unregulated (‘shadow’) intermediaries than for regulated ones. While the...
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This paper analyzes optimal pricing for information goods underincomplete information, when both unlimited-usage (fixed …-fee) pricingand usage-based pricing are feasible and administering usage-basedpricing may involve transaction costs. It is shown that … offeringfixed-fee pricing in addition to a nonlinear usagebased pricing schemeis always profit improving in the presence of nonzero …
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In Cournot's model of complements, the producers of A and B are bothmonopolists. This paper extends Cournot's model to allow for competitionbetween complements on one side of the market. Consider two complements,A and B, where the A + B bundle is valuable only when purchasedtogether. Good A is...
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varied in importance between work sections. An intra-estimator intra-item analysis of pricing variability generally confirmed …
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Grocery shopping is an essential and routine activity. Although long regarded the responsibility of the female spouse, modern social and demographic shifts are causing men to become more engaged in this task. This is the first study to analyse gender differences with respect to the criterion of...
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