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In most developing countries, historically, the main strategy for improving the food sector has focused on increasing farm-level production. But in recent years, with the emphasis on value chain analysis, there has been much more focus on subsector studies, demand-driven approaches, and...
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Models of strategic behavior are usually too complex to conduct large scale analyses, and frequently rely on accurate descriptions of the strategic environment, or unrealistic assumptions which render empirical studies very sensitive to misspecification. This dissertation relates game-theoretic...
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of time. The study pursues its investigation through exploring three issues: the price and cost structures, the pricing … for their pricing behaviour. We find that the firms adopt a high cost strategy to bargain with the state for higher plan …
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.) and the overall goal of a model investigation (sales forecast, pricing etc.). In the second part of this work the new …
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readily and in a manner hitherto impossible. Underpinning these interactions, auction pricing mechanisms have enabled … information, such as keyword pricing and website design. With respect to advertisers, I find evidence of dynamic bidding …
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To overcome the curse of dimensionality, dimension reduction is important andnecessary for understanding the underlying phenomena in a variety of fields.Dimension reduction is the transformation of high-dimensional data into ameaningful representation in the low-dimensional space. It can be...
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In this thesis, we analyze the impact of the decentralization of price and leadtime decisions made by the marketing and production departments, respectively, in a make-to-order firm. We first study a monopoly environment, and find that in the decentralized setting, the total demand generated is...
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objectives. There are two main pricing strategies that firms may use to defend against a competitive market entry. The first of … these options, limit pricing (or entry deterring price), may be utilized prior to competitive entry. The second option …, aggressive (predatory) pricing, may be executed post-entry. The effectiveness of both of these options is still controversial …
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, we need a differentiated pricing scheme, as supposed to the flat-rate scheme employed by the Internet service providers … designed a pricing strategy for Admission Control and bandwidth assignment. Despite the variety of existing pricing strategies …, the common theme is that the appropriate pricing policy rewards users for behaving in ways to improve the overall …
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This dissertation deals with three problems in health care. In the first, we consider the incentives to change prices and capital levels at hospitals, using optimal control under the assumption that private payers charge higher prices if patients consume more hospital services. The main results...
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