This paper investigates causal relations between economic growth, income inequality, and transmission channels during the period 1972 to 2016. These channels include saving rate, investment rate, redistribution policies, human capital, and conspicuous consumption. There is no strong evidence that supports uni-directional or bi-directional causality. In addition, some of the transmission channel...

Relative to other functions within today's organizations, sales leaders and their sales forces are uniquely focused on driving performance in every minute, hour, day, month and quarter of the business year. To do otherwise is to sacri ce sales and pro ts, and to diminish the satisfaction of customers, which can lead to the poor performance of the entire business and failure to deliver satisfact...

Data from the 2004 National Nursery Survey conducted by the USDA-CSREES S-1021 Multistate Research Committee (referred to as the Green Industry Research Consortium) were used to evaluate the effect of pricing influences and selling characteristics on total gross firm sales and gross sales of several plant categories (trees, roses, shrubs/azaleas, herbaceous perennials, bedding plants, foliage, ...

Government health funding (GHF) is a cosmopolitan problem. It is especially conspicuous in China, where drug sales become a main source of medical institutions' incomes due to limited GHF. This is well known as China's "drug maintain medical institutions (DMMIs)" system which results directly in very high use of antibiotics, injections, and corticosteroids. However, few statistical data existed...

This essay puts forward a cruise pricing model based on improved quantum particle swarm optimization, aiming at optimizing the pricing strategy and realizing the maximum sales income expected. Firstly, we combine the two factors – actual booking records and expected booking records in the process of cruises pricing – and improve the dynamic price-setting model based on demand learning put forwa...

Youth entrepreneurship is one of the solutions for unemployment. Previous studies focused to some extent on support youth entrepreneurship. The purpose this paper was analyse profitability youth-owned businesses. This aimed at making a scientific contribution research by Radipere and Ladzani (2014) Hallak et al. analysing businesses, using theoretical framework profitability. A quantitative app...

【】 Indicates Sales by Region < > Indicates % Change Over Same Period in Previous Year In Japan, third-quarter net sales were 1,010.2 billion yen (US$9,021 million), a 7.6% increase compared to the same period in the prior fiscal year. Although there was a decrease in sales of mobile phone base stations and other products, higher sales of services, PCs, mobile phones, and advanced technology log...

This paper outlines an e-business strategy for a large independent Travel Agent with multiple sales channels and business units. The present configuration does not provide a framework for the development of ebusiness solutions for the travel company. The paper discusses the creation of an infrastructure for the development of the company’s Intranet to integrate its separate business units with ...

Marketing in general, and selling in particular, tends to be the most conspicuous organizational functions to customers and the general public at large. As such, many researchers have examined ethics in sales. Three general conclusions emerge from my research on ethics. First, although sales personnel view several business practices and situations differently (visà-vis being appropriate or inap...

Sales forecasting plays an important role in operating a business since it can be used to determine the required inventory level to meet consumer demand and avoid the problem of under/overstocking. Improving the accuracy of sales forecasting has become an important issue of operating a business. This study proposes a hybrid sales forecasting scheme by combining independent component analysis (I...