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Value of Learning and Acting On Customer Information

Cao, H. Henry; Sun, Bao-Hong - 2007

The rapid growth in demand and supply of sophisticated data mining and analytical decision tools calls for research to understand the value of learning, as well as how learning interacts with firms’ day-to-day marketing strategies.In this paper, we consider a market in which the firm can...

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Efficiency in Managing the Environment and the Opportunity Cost of Pollution Abatement

Ray, Subhash C.; Mukherjee, Kankana - 2007

Using the directional distance function we study a cross section of 110 countries to examine the efficiency of management of the tradeoffs between pollution and income. The DEA model is reformulated to permit 'reverse disposability' of the bad output. Further, we interpret the optimal solution...

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Optimal Pricing for Integrated-Services Networks with Guaranteed Quality of Service

Wang, Qiong; Peha, Jon M.; Sirbu, Marvin A. - 1997

Integrating multiple services into a single network is becoming increasingly common in today’s telecommunications industry. Driven by the emergence of new applications, many of these services will be offered with guaranteed quality of service. While there are extensive studies of the...

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Wealth effects on consumer spending in the US economy

Avramenko, Andriy - 2004

This paper investigates the effects of wealth on consumer spending in the United States. A traditional life-cycle model … is estimated first. Although it does find a statistically significant wealth effect, its findings are unusable due to the … offered. First, wealth is divided into stock market and non-stock market components, second into liquid and illiquid …

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Drivers of the Value of the Firm: Profitability, Growth, and Capital Intensity

Miller, Tom W.; Mathisen, Richard E. - 2004

Value-based management systems focus on wealth and the wealth creation process and promote the generation of value for … desired course of action to improve the wealth generating ability of the firm by managing these value drivers more effectively. …

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Medicaid Crowd-Out of Long-Term Care Insurance with Endogenous Medicaid Enrollment

Kim, Geena - 2010

With states facing tightening Medicaid budgets, the high cost of financing long-term care for the elderly through Medicaid has prompted proposals to make private long-term care insurance (LTCI) more affordable through tax incentives. The effectiveness of tax incentives for stimulating LTCI...

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Solving the Feldstein–Horioka Puzzle With Financial Frictions

Bai, Yan; Zhang, Jing - 2010

Unlike the prediction of a frictionless open economy model, long-term average savings and investment rates are highly … that the calibrated model with both frictions produces a savings–investment correlation and a volume of capital flows close …

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Substituting Corporate Saving for Personal Saving: An Explanation for Falling Personal Saving Rates

Barney, L. Dwayne; Schooley, Diane K.; White, Harry - 2009

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to test the hypothesis that savers may be substituting equity capital gains from stockholdings for traditional measures of personal saving. The analysis also aims to investigate dividend yield (DY) as a signal to investors about corporate saving rates...

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Clean development mechanism: Perspectives from developing countries

Sari, Agus P.; Meyers, Stephen - 2008

This paper addresses the political acceptability and workability of CDM by and in developing countries. At COP-3 in Kyoto in 1997, the general position among developing countries changed from strong rejection of joint implementation to acceptance of CDM. The outgrowth of CDM from a proposal from...

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Using government purchasing power to reduce equipment standby power

Harris, Jeffrey; Meier, Alan; Bartholomew, Emily; … - 2008

savings. It also builds upon existing efforts to encourage Federal purchase of energy-efficient products (Energy Star products …, we estimate energy savings for federal agencies alone at about 230 GWh/year (worth US$14 million), with spillover effects …

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