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different postures depending on extent of environmental uncertainty and whether leaders are optimistic or pessimistic about …’s four postures – versatile (high uncertainty, positive sentiment), inquisitive (high uncertainty, negative sentiment …), focused (low uncertainty, positive sentiment), and vigilant (low uncertainty, negative sentiment) – call for different …
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Abstract Two important unresolved issues in the evaluation of health care programs are the treatment of indirect costs and the selection of the appropriate discount rate. This paper emphasizes the role of distortionary taxation in addressing these issues. It establishes that: (i) indirect...
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Two important unresolved issues in the evaluation of health care programs are the treatment of indirect costs and the selection of the appropriate discount rate. This paper emphasizes the role of distortionary taxation in addressing these issues. It establishes that: (i) indirect government-paid...
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constant rate—exponential discounting. Euler equations estimated over different time horizons should have equal discount rates … but they do not. Rising term yield premia imply discount rates that rise with longer horizons since uncertainty is much … too small to account for the difference in interest rates. Such deviations from exponential discounting are large enough …
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This paper introduces the concepts of amount and speed of a discounting procedure in order to generate well …-characterized families of procedures for use in social project evaluation. Exponential discounting sequesters the concepts of amount and … future. We propose geometrical and time horizon based measures of how rapidly a discounting procedure acquires its ultimate …
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physical attributes. Second, benefit-cost analysis traditionally uses exponential discounting to reflect time preferences …, while behavioral research suggests that individuals’ discounting may be hyperbolic. While the appropriate rates and …
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which they can manage discounting. Social implications – This article helps “penetrate the black box” of buyer decision …
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future pricing challenges, new structures, price points, discounting rules and competitors.  …
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Purpose This study focuses on the marketing strategies of the two most successful discount department store chains in Australia between 1969 and the late 1980s when consumer acceptance of both brand and format were being determined. It examines how they approached marketing a new-format national...
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. Most agricultural economics texts recommend discounting by the “cost of capital” while most finance texts recommend … discounting by the after‐tax cost of borrowed funds. Texts from both agricultural economics and finance disagree about the timing …
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