I propose a market based on a single load-following product in which each supplier bids to serve its desired share of the Colombia regulated load. Thus, a supplier that wins a 10% share at auction has an obligation to serve 10% of the actual regulated load in every hour of the commitment period. The supplier is paid the MOR clearing price for every MWh of energy supplied. Deviations between the...

Consignment contracts have been widely employed in many industries. Under such contracts, items are sold at a retailer’s but the supplier retains the full ownership of the inventory until purchased by consumers; the supplier collects payment from the retailer based on actual units sold. We investigate how competition among retailers influences the supply chain decisions and profits under differ...

Timeliness of share price discovery is the speed at which value-relevant, private information is released and reflected in a firm‟s share price. As shareholder litigation is a common occurrence in the United States, it could affect the speed at which price discovery occurs. Managers can be personally named in securities class action litigation, and the choice to disclose information to the mark...

in which the summation is taken over all y1 goods and where wi is the budget share of commodity i, qi is the quantity of good i, pi is the unit price of good i, x is total expenditure, and P is the Divisia price index, implicitly defined as d In P = cj wj.d In pi. The parameter pi is the (constant) marginal budget share of good i; negativity of the substitution effect imposes 7rii < 0. The left...

Stock exchange and interest rate are two crucial factors of economic growth of a country. The impacts of interest rate on stock exchange provide important implications for monitory policy, risk management practices, financial securities valuation and government policy towards financial markets. This study seeks evidence supporting the existence of share market efficiency based on the monthly da...

Cooperative advertising is an agreement between a manufacturer and a retailer to share advertising cost at the local level. Previous studies have not investigated cooperative advertising for complementary products and their main focus was only on one good. In this paper, we study a two-echelon supply chain consisting of one manufacturer and one retailer with two complementary goods. The demand ...

This study analyzed the performance of cabbage marketing in Abia State, Nigeria. Specifically the study sought to: describe socio-economic characteristics of cabbage marketers; identify marketing channels of cabbage; determine marketing cost components of cabbage marketers; determine marketing margins, market share and marketing efficiency of cabbage marketers; and determine socio-economic fact...

The determination of practical and coherent policy to pin down the price in restructured distribution networks should be considered as a momentous topic. The present paper introduces a new method of distribution marginal price (DMP) calculation. The main aim of this paper is to evaluate the DMP for both producers and consumers separately. For this purpose, the first part of the procedure emphas...

abstract the main aim of the paper is to determine the marketing efficiency of poultry industry in karaj. in this research the marketing margin and the marketing efficiency of poultry market in different level of the market in karaj was calculated. the results showed that slaughter houses gain the main part of marketing margin and marking profit. the share of slaughter house was more that 50 pe...

selecting a set of features and price for new product is one of the most important and difficult decisions for any firm. for its implementation firms require information by demand of consumers about product features,the cost of providing these features and reaction of existing competitors to new product entry. in this research, with the help of game theory, the various positions of new product ...