The real deal

Deal or No Deal? - Asessing the Daily Deal Shopper

We build upon previous work done in online shopping segmentation but follow a customer-revealed approach by using an explorative cluster analysis on a sample of 11,848 daily deal shoppers located in Switzerland. We identify six segments into which the daily deal shoppers can be categorized: recreational shoppers, mobile shoppers, traditionalists, bargain hunters, socializers, and convenience se...

Big Deal - good deal? Or is there a better deal?

Achieving Consensus Deal with Methodological Issues in the Delphi Technique

Delphi is a powerful technique used to seek answers to appropriate questions. The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of the Delphi technique as a research method. This paper discusses the scientific merit of the Delphi technique by investigating on 41 studies of Journal of Agricultural Education from 1981 to 2013, and 2 studies of Journal of Agricultural Science and Technology. The...

THE deal . II LIBRARY , VERSION

This paper provides an overview of the new features of the finite element library deal.II version 8.0. 1. Overview. deal.II version 8.0 was released July 24, 2013. This paper provides an overview of the new features of this release and serves as a citable web reference for the deal.II software library version 8.0. deal.II is an object-oriented finite element library used around the world in the...

Are TIPS the Real Deal?: A Conditional Assessment of their Role in a Nominal Portfolio

This paper documents predictable time-variation in the real return beta of U.S. Treasury inflation protected securities (TIPS) and in the Sharpe ratios of both indexed and conventional bonds. The conditional mean and volatility of both bonds and their conditional correlation are first estimated from predetermined variables. These estimates are then used to compute conditional real return betas ...