Part I. Pricing -- Chapter 1. The Retailer’s Pricing Challenge -- Chapter 2. Understanding Demand and Elasticity -- Chapter 3. Improving the List Price -- Chapter 4. Optimizing Markdowns and Promotions -- Part II. Inventory Management -- Chapter 5. Product (Re-)distribution and Replenishment...

Empirical researchers studying party systems often struggle with the question of how to count parties. Indexes of party system fragmentation used to address this problem (e.g., the effective number of parties) have a fundamental shortcoming: since the same index value may represent very...