We consider a three-tiered cloud service market and propose an energy efficient pricing strategy in this market. Here, the end customers are served by the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) providers, who implement customized services for their customers. To host these services, these SaaS providers, in turn, lease the infrastructure related resources from the Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) or Pl...

Abstract Providers’ tendency to cream skim clients according certain sociodemographic traits is widely believed increase under marketization, and therefore also discrimination. However, due a lack of experimental research, little known about the presence discrimination in marketized welfare services potential drivers such biased treatment. The research particularly evident regard socioeconomic ...

Cloud computing is an emerging paradigm revolutionizing the use and marketing of informationtechnology. As the number of cloud users and providers grows, the socio-economical impact ofcloud solutions and particularly PaaS (platform as a service) solutions is becoming increasinglycritical. The main objective of PaaS providers is to generate the maximum profit from the servicesthe...

This paper studies an incentive structure for cooperation and its stability in peer-assisted services when there exist multiple content providers, using a coalition game theoretic approach. We first consider a generalized coalition structure consisting of multiple providers with many assisting peers, where peers assist providers to reduce the operational cost in content distribution. To distrib...

Industry in Ukraine is among the world’s most energy intensive. Energy was plentiful and cheap in Soviet times and little effort was made to conserve it. Rising energy prices have had a major impact on profits and production, which also creates a tremendous market potential for energy efficient products and services. Yet Ukrainian industry has not implemented significant energy efficiency measu...

The neoclassical theory of investment implies that expected stock returns are tied with the expected marginal benefit of investment divided by the marginal cost of investment. Winners have higher expected growth and expected marginal productivity (two major components of the marginal benefit of investment), and earn higher expected stock returns than losers. The investment model succeeds in cap...

The relationship between the quality of finishing works, costs, market value, and profit, is presented and explained for residential buildings. The results show that the higher quality of finishing works increases profit for investors. As the maximum market price is limited, there is a limit when the investment in finishing work is no longer cost-effective as, after increase in costs, the marke...

OBJECTIVES To assess the impact of provider diversity on quality and innovation in the English NHS by mapping the extent of diverse provider activity and identifying the differences in performance between Third Sector Organisations (TSOs), for-profit private enterprises, and incumbent organizations within the NHS, and the factors that affect the entry and growth of new providers. METHODS Case...

Until about 25 years ago, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Iceland and Finland used a bureaucratic-professional governance model to reach common welfare goals in ECEC, something that arguably constituted Nordic dimension. Since then, the countries have introduced post-bureaucratic models such as evaluation quasi-markets varying degrees. Differences timing of policy changes saturation demand resulted va...