. -- Offshoring ; heterogeneous inputs ; uncertainty ; price ; transportation costs …Formulating a model which summarises transportation costs, uncertainty and price, we describe how a switch to ICT …, we also report a 2-3 percent reduction in the level of materials offshoring following a switch to internet procurement …

Internet service needs to be appropriately priced, because Internet Service Providers want to remain competitive, and … of Internet service lies at the interface of marketing and engineering. From this perspective we present a review of the … major proposals for pricing Internet service. Topics include: Smart Market, Paris Metro Pricing, Max-Min Fairness …

This chapter examines the interaction between supply price uncertainty and demand uncertainty. We consider a … manufacturer who sources a key component using different procurement options: a long-term order on a price-only contract, short …

. -- Background risk ; Capital structure ; Price uncertainty …This paper examines the interplay between the real and financial decisions of the competitive firm under output price … uncertainty. The firm faces additional sources of uncertainty that are aggregated into a background risk. We show that the firm …

. -- Prospect theory ; mean-variance model ; indifference curve ; price uncertainty ; hedging …. For example, the nature of monotonicity of the indifference curve depends on the underlying mean. Price hedging decisions …