abstract the objective of this study is evaluation of government’s optimum combination of policy instruments on per capita consumption of bread and the share of this product in food cost of families in different income classes. the minimization of changes in dead weight loss function is used in this study. by using boot strop method and on base of normal distribution for supply elasticity and d...

This observational study investigates the private sector, retail pharmaceutical market of 19 low and middle income countries (LMICs) in Latin America, Asia and the Middle East/South Africa analyzing the relationships between volume market share of generic and originator medicines over a time series from 2001 to 2011. Over 5000 individual pharmaceutical substances were divided into generic (unbr...

The study presents a decision support system, called path marketing analysis, which can help managers to utilize their market knowledge and experience to develop more effective market share growth plans in mature business markets. Through treating marketing mix elements in a hierarchical fashion, the approach identifies key drivers of market share change and then uses this information to uncove...

Are share markets too volatile? While it is difficult to ignore share market volatility it is important to determine whether volatility is excessive. This paper replicates the Shiller (1981) test as well as applying standard time series analysis to annual Australian stock market data for the period 1883 to 1999. While Shiller’s test suggests the possibility of excess volatility, time series ana...

It has been hypothesized that higher tax rates lead to a larger market share for nonprofit hospitals, given their tax exempt status. However, existing cross-sectional studies offer little empirical support for the hypothesis. We reexamine this issue using a panel data set and find that higher state corporate income and local property tax rates lead to a greater market share for nonprofit hospit...

this comparative study investigates the iranian exporters and the u.s. importers perception of persian carpet branding strategy in the u.s. market. wong and merrilees conceptual model of international branding strategy (2007) is used as the base model. two separate models for these communities are extracted. results indicated that the two models are different together and with the base model du...

eiarnination the oil market and review the major oil importer countries, is a major need for guidance and marketing strategy for crude oil exporting countries. so that estimating the oil demand for importer countries and analysis the effective factors on their oil demand, can be an important factor in planning and policy making for oil exporting countries in order to sell oil. so iran is not an...

In service industries, companies increasingly need to rely on the performance of their service employees to become and stay truly competitive. Despite this viewpoint, most administrators do not believe that they can make competitive advantage in their organizations through employees. Therefore, the present paper aims to study the effect of employee branding on market share based on individual a...