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THE DEMAND FOR GIFFEN GOODS IN DOWNWARD SLOPING.

BARZEL, Y.; SUEN, W. - Department of Economics, University of Washington - 1989

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Beyond the Rhetoric: An Introduction to Implementing TELRIC

Kennet, D. Mark; Perez-Reyes, Raul - In: Review of Network Economics 1 (2002) 2, pp. 155-167

This paper demonstrates the feasibility of the TELRIC standard. We develop an engineering-economic model of an interoffice telephone network suitable for calculating a TELRIC interconnection cost. The model utilizes the method of simulated annealing to determine an "optimal" SONET ring. Using...

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The Economics of the Supreme Court's Decision on Forward Looking Costs

Rosston, Gregory L.; Noll, Roger G. - In: Review of Network Economics 1 (2002) 2, pp. 81-89

networks. This article explains the background of the forward-looking pricing rules adopted by the FCC, the economic rational …

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Pricing the Internet When Distribution Matters

Nogueira, Jose Ricardo; Cavalcanti, Jose Carlos - In: Brazilian Electronic Journal of Economics 1 (1997) December

This paper addresses the question of how the price system can be used to deal with the issue of distributional equity in the Internet. Feldstein's distributional charateristic method and the safety net approach are considered and compared with first best solutions. The conclusion drawn is that...

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Do Entry Conditions Vary over Time? Entry and Competition in the Broadband Market: 1999-2003

Xiao, Mo; Orazem, Peter - Department of Economics, Iowa State University - 2006

We extend Bresnahan and Reiss’s (1991) model of local oligopoly to allow firm entry and exit over time. In our framework, entrants have to incur sunk costs in order to enter a market. After becoming incumbents, they disregard these entry costs in deciding whether to continue operating or to...

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The pricing of conditional performance guarantees with risky collateral

Huang, Yu-Lin - In: Construction Management and Economics 26 (2008) 9, pp. 967-978

contract and can thus be priced accordingly. A CDS-based model is proposed here for pricing these instruments. The model …

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Construction price formation: full-cost pricing or neoclassical microeconomic theory?

Skitmore, Martin; Runeson, Goran; Chang, Xinling - In: Construction Management and Economics 24 (2006) 7, pp. 773-783

price determination while, at the same time, (2) full-cost pricing is most commonly accepted pricing policy of construction … microeconomic theory provides a useful means of analysis, it offers little for the practice of pricing, which is much more closely …

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Charges, Costs and Market Power: the Deregulated UK Electricity Retail Market

SALIES, Evens; PRICE, Catherine WADDAMS - EconWPA - 2005

The residential UK electricity market was opened for the first time in 1999, introducing choice of supplier, and about 40% of households changed supplier in the first four years. After three years price caps were removed. We review this process and assess the competitiveness of the market by...

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The Valuation of Inflation-Indexed and FX Convertible Bonds

Landskroner, Yoram; Raviv, Alon - EconWPA - 2004

important subgroup is convertibles linked to a price index or exchange rate. In this paper we extend the convertible pricing … establish upper and lower bounds for the price of the indexed convertible. We approximate the pricing equations by using …, we demonstrate the usefulnes and the limitations of the pricing model by using convertible traded on the Tel- Aviv stock …

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Value Creation and Profit Optimization

Winther, K. Tobias - EconWPA - 2002

The present paper develops a basic framework for evaluating and optimizing profits in a business operation. In developing a business we are often faced with an infinity of choices ranging from what products or services to sell and what customers to target to how to structure and manage the...

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