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Global pharmaceutical pricing strategies: profit implications of price discounting
Longo, Christopher J. - In: International Journal of Economics and Business Research 2 (2010) 6, pp. 447-460
Global pharmaceutical pricing strategies have been debated in published literature; however, these debates have not accounted for the differences in elasticity of demand between the public, private and cash paying markets. A mathematical model is presented that explores several plausible...
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Purchasing’s involvement in environmental issues: a multi‐country perspective
Zsidisin, George A.; Hendrick, Thomas E. - In: Industrial Management & Data Systems 98 (1998) 7, pp. 313-320
Purchasing and supply chain management have a critical role, and significant influence, in a firm’s environmental … performance. This study explores the extent of involvement that purchasing managers in Germany, the UK, and the USA have in … purchasing managers want greater levels of participation in these environmental issues. The study also describes differences …
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Exploring quality management for business services from a buyer's perspective using multiple case study evidence
Holschbach, Elmar; Hofmann, Erik - In: International Journal of Operations & Production Management 31 (2011) 6, pp. 648-685
perspective of a goods or service provider. Literature on the purchasing of services concentrates on the differences between the … purchasing of goods and services and literature on service quality focuses on consumer services. This paper fills this gap …
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Impact of Inflation on Consumer Life Style: Some Empirical Results on the Money Illusion and Consumer Purchasing Behaviour
Poser, Günter; Shipchandler, Zoher E. - In: European Journal of Marketing 13 (1979) 3, pp. 103-112
consumers adjust their habits and purchasing behaviour in response to perceived price rises. Presents evidence from a survey …
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Heterogeneity in the effect of home energy audits : theory and evidence
Frondel, Manuel; Vance, Colin - 2017
A longstanding question in the study of energy demand concerns the role of information as a determinant of home efficiency improvements. Although the provision of information via energy audits is frequently asserted to be an effective means for governments to encourage the implementation of...
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SIMULATED ENTERPRISE OFFICES (LERNBUROS) IN TRAINING
Axmann, Michael; Tadesse, Nunu; Wallace, John - In: Industrial and Commercial Training 22 (1990) 3
The creation of a simulated office environment in West German commercial colleges is described. Its methods of operation, reasons for its introduction and why it has survived where other, similar innovations failed to catch on, are examined. Graduates of the process seem to find jobs sooner and...
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Firm characteristics, economic conditions and capital structure adjustments
Drobetz, Wolfgang (contributor); Pensa, Pascal (contributor) - 2007
We use a dynamic framework and panel methodology to investigate the determinants of a firms' time-varying capital structure. Our sample comprises 706 European firms from France, Germany, Italy and the U.K. over the period from 1983 to 2002. If capital structure adjustment is costly, firms may...
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The local economic impact of wind power deployment
May, Nils G.; Nilsen, Øivind Anti - 2015
Globally installed wind power capacity has grown tremendously since 2000. This study focuses on the local economic impacts of wind power deployment. A theoretical model shows that wind power deployment is not necessarily driven by locally-accruing economic payoffs, but also by other factors such...
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Difference in differences for stayers with a time-varying qualification : health expenditure elasticity of the elderly
Lee, Myong-Jae; Gim, Yeong sug - In: Health economics 23 (2014) 9, pp. 1134-1145
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Using panel data on income satisfaction to estimate the equivalence scale elasticity
Schwarze, Johannes - 2000
In this paper a new method to estimate the equivalence scale elasticity using individual panel data on income satisfaction will be developed. In contrast to other subjective approaches, the present one benefits from the fact that no direct cardinal individual welfare function has to be...
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