In this article, we estimate the vertical price transmission through the Iranian rice marketing chain by usingmonthly data from March 2000 to February, 2009 and error correction model (ECM).The causality testresults indicate that changes in the producer price clearly led changes in wholesale and retail prices. InProducer-Retail and Wholesale-Retail models, price transmission is asymmetric but i...

A structural conflict exists in businesses that sell services whose production costs are discontinuous and whose consumption is continuous but variable. A classic example is in businesses where capital-intensive infrastructure is necessary for provisioning service, but the capacity resulting from capital outlay is not always fully and efficiently utilized. Marketing departments focus on initiat...

application of relationship marketing tactics can not be successful alone and should consider other factors such as personnel attributes(social afflication ,social recognition, shopping enjoyment, product category involvement)perspective at selection and appraisal. the sample research customers of maxim chain store in tehran what choiced to method sampler chanceful. in this study we examine thr...

V marketing is a form of peer-to-peer communication in which individuals are encouraged to pass on promotional messages within their social networks. Conventional wisdom holds that the viral marketing process is both random and unmanageable. In this paper, we deconstruct the process and investigate the formation of the activated digital network as distinct from the underlying social network. We...

Marketing is under increased pressure to demonstrate its economic value to the firm. The challenge is exacerbated by the fact that marketing uses attitudinal (e.g. brand awareness), behavioral (e.g. brand loyalty) and financial (e.g. sales revenue) performance metrics, which, unfortunately, do not correlate highly with each other. Thus marketing initiatives could be viewed as successful by one ...

In this research we introduce a new class of multivariate probability models to the marketing literature. Known as “copula models”, they have a number of attractive features. First, they permit the combination of any univariate marginal distributions that need not come from the same distributional family. Second, a particular class of copula models, called “elliptical copula”, have the property...

Methods of contacting customers are constantly evolving. An increasing number of manufacturers have established experience stores, plazas or centers that provide marketing, education, and trade functions to enhance business performance. This paper develops integer programming models to analyze the experience store establishment decision. Demand functions, cost parameters, and firm learning curv...

This presentation overviews the applications of survival analysis techniques for marketing. It covers three major areas of applications: customer relationship management (attrition modeling, customer base analytics, customer lifelong value modeling), marketing campaign management (customer selection, marketing campaign evaluation) and trigger event management (evaluation of importance of trigge...

Introduction Permission Marketing and the Internet Literature Review Permission Marketing Business Models on the Web Conceptual Framework Overall Framework Overview of Benefits and Costs Causal Antecedents to Message Relevance Causal Antecedents to Information Entry or Modification Costs Causal Antecedents to Message Processing Costs Causal Antecedents to Privacy Costs Discussion Footnotes Refe...