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Street Vendors tackle the Newsvendor Problem: An Experimental Inquiry into the Big Issue
Bailey, Nicholas - 2008
The Big Issue is a not-for-profit organisation that gives homeless people the opportunity to reclaim ownership over their lives by selling a street magazine. The vendors must purchase the magazine from the Big Issue office before making sales, and may do so multiple times each day. The vendors...
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Mass Media and Aspiration Manipulation: An Experiment Altering Preferences Over Goals
Wu, Kevin - 2011
Mass media consumption has increasingly been found to adversely impact upon psychological states but research has largely neglected the potential influence of media onaspirations. An experiment demonstrates aspirational incomes to be dramatically altered by a textual narrative despite it not...
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Tertiary Education Choices in New Zealand: A Pluralistic Investigation
Mary Hedges - 2010
Most policy regarding tertiary training choice is based on the presumption that human capital theory is the most appropriate model and the cost-benefit analysis implicit in that model provides a reasonable approximation of the choice parameters included in any decision to study. This has...
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Nonlinear Pricing of Information Goods
Sundararajan, Arun - 2004
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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Competing Complements
Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon; Nalebuff, Barry; Yoffie, David - Harvard Business School; SOM Yale University; Harvard … - 2007
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009435133
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Estimating processes of smaller builders
Skitmore, Martin; Wilcock, John - 1994
varied in importance between work sections. An intra-estimator intra-item analysis of pricing variability generally confirmed …
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Grocery product pricing and Australian supermarket consumers : gender differences in perceived importance levels
Mortimer, Gary; Weeks, Clinton - 2011
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009438018
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Controlling the Growth of Internet Routing Tables Through Market Mechanisms
Kwong, Kin-Wah; Guerin, Roch - 2010
on the size of routing tables, and introduces a pricing scheme that seeks to better reapportion the resulting costs. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009438863
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Theoretical foundations in the pricing of intermediating services: the case of mobile phone payments
Ng, Irene C. L.; Yip, Nick - 2010
This is a post-peer-review, pre-copyedit version of an article published in Journal of Revenue and Pricing Management …. The definitive publisher-authenticated version Journal of Revenue and Pricing Management is available online at: …
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The determinants of the UK Big Firms Premium
McMeeking, Kevin P.; Pope, Peter F.; Peasnell, Ken V. - 2006
examine industry specialisation, non audit service fee and monopoly pricing explanations for the premium. The results of our … systematic evidence of anti-competitive pricing. …
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