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Extension of multi-commodity closed-loop supply chain network design by aggregate production planning
Steinke, Leena; Fischer, Kathrin - In: Logistics Research 9 (2016) 1, pp. 1-23
In this work the influence of production and capacity planning on decisions regarding facility location, distribution quantities and component remanufacturing (and vice versa) in a closed-loop supply chain network (CLSCN) with multiple make-to-order products is studied. A mathematical model, the...
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Optimal manufacturing and remanufacturing capacities of systems with reverse logistics and deterministic uniform demand
Benedito, Ernest; Corominas, Albert - In: Journal of Industrial Engineering and Management (JIEM) 3 (2010) 1, pp. 33-53
Using reverse logistics in production systems can help to reduce costs. However, it can also mean introducing a source of uncertainty in the system behavior. In this study we present a method for calculating the optimal manufacturing and remanufacturing capacities of a system with reverse...
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Adoption of large-scale medical equipment: the impact of competition in the German inpatient sector
Dreger, Marie; Langhoff, Hauke; Henschke, Cornelia - In: The European Journal of Health Economics 23 (2021) 5, pp. 791-805
The availability of large-scale medical equipment such as computed tomography (CT), magnet resonance imaging (MRI) and positron emission tomography (PET) scanners has increased rapidly worldwide over the last decades. Among OECD countries, Germany ranks high according to the number of imaging...
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Forecast Evaluation of Explanatory Models of Financial Variability
Sucarrat, Genaro - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 3 (2009) 2009-8, pp. 1-33
A practice that has become widespread and widely endorsed is that of evaluating forecasts of financial variability obtained from discrete time models by comparing them with high-frequency ex post estimates (e.g. realised volatility) based on continuous time theory. In explanatory financial...
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Forecasting the shock in economic data series using error forecast
Basit, Abdul; Aslam, Muhammad - In: Pakistan Journal of Commerce and Social Sciences (PJCSS) 5 (2011) 2, pp. 293-301
series has been use for the forecasting the shock occurring in the economic data series. Objective and Subjective technique …
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Konjunkturanalysen mit DIWAX
Kooths, Stefan - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 76 (2007) 4, pp. 21-34
DIWAX is an agent-based software package designed to support macroeconomic forecasting based on national accounting …
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A factor analysis for the Spanish economy
Cuevas, Ángel; Quilis, Enrique M. - In: SERIEs - Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 3 (2012) 3, pp. 311-338
We present a medium-scale dynamic factor model to estimate and forecast the rate of growth of the Spanish economy in the very short term. The intermediate size of the model overcomes the serious specification problems associated with large scale-models and the implicit loss of information of...
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Forecasting the Spanish economy with an augmented VAR-DSGE model
Fernández-de-Córdoba, Gonzalo; Torres, José L. - In: SERIEs - Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 2 (2011) 3, pp. 379-399
quantitative macroeconomics. However, DSGE models were not considered as a forecasting tool until very recently. The objective of … this paper is twofold. First, we compare the forecasting ability of a canonical DSGE model for the Spanish economy with … VAR operates with artificial series obtained from a DSGE model. The results indicate that the out-of-sample forecasting …
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Vertragswettbewerb in der Gesundheitsversorgung: Lehren aus dem Ausland
Greß, Stefan; Wasem, Jürgen - In: Wirtschaftsdienst 86 (2006) 5, pp. 288-291
die Bundesregierung auf die Leistungsseite konzentrieren. Wie kann mehr Wettbewerb im Gesundheitswesen etabliert werden …? Was bedeutet mehr Wettbewerb im Gesundheitswesen für die gesetzlichen Krankenkassen? …
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Deutsches Gesundheitssystem teuer und ineffizient: Eine Fehldiagnose?
Müller, Gero; Klement, Carmen - In: Wirtschaftsdienst 92 (2012) 3, pp. 202-207
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