Price comparison sites have become an increasingly popular way to shop online. Yet, even though consumers have complete access to the list of prices for apparently identical products offered on these sites, persistent price dispersion has been widely observed. One important theoretical explanation for this phenomenon comes from clearinghouse models of price dispersion. These models predict that...

BACKGROUND Access to medicines is a universal right. Low availability and low affordability of medicines are issues that deny this right to a significant proportion of the world population. The objective of this study was to determine the availability, price and affordability of essential medicines prescribed to treat non communicable diseases in Sri Lanka. METHODS Methodology was based on th...

Many businesses are using recommender systems for marketing outreach. Recommendation algorithms can be either based on content or driven by collaborative filtering. We study different ways to incorporate content information directly into the matrix factorization approach of collaborative filtering. These content-boosted matrix factorization algorithms not only improve recommendation accuracy, b...

This paper surveys several common models which can be used to represent and study design procedures. A matrix representation of design is discussed in detail and both new and existing analysis tools are presented. Enhanced models are proposed to incorporate more information into the matrix representation and to allow more sophisticated analysis to be performed. The paper describes a testbed for...

The seminal work of Phelps, Taylor, and Cairo developed forwardlooking models of price determination that imparted inertia to the price leveh These models incorporate expectations of future prices and excess demand by imposing constraints (typically lag-lead symmetry constrainls) that force future variables to enter the specification. In this paper, I test the empirical significance of future p...

BACKGROUND Inequitable access to medicines is a major weakness in the Indian health care system. Baseline data needed to develop effective public health policy and provide equitable access to essential medicines. The present survey was conducted to investigate the price, availability, and affordability of fifty essential medicines in the public and private sector in Delhi, India using standardi...

The problem of the optimal assignment of facilities to locaticns has been solved by J. W. Gavett and Normann V. PlyterD• In their paper the branch and bound technique2) is used and for this purpose the distance matrix is transformed into the matrix whose diagonal compoents are zero. The purpose of this paper is to avoid such a transformation and the store of the distance matrix into the computer.

Public housing is the largest housing submarket in Singapore. There is also an active resale public housing market, where public housing dwellers are allowed to trade their houses after a time-bar of five years from the date of their purchase. This segment of resale HDB market is liken the private housing submarkets, where housing prices are more likely to fluctuate in accordance to the market ...

TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION: LAWS TARGETING PRICE DISCRIMINATION .............. 1237 I. ECONOMIC CONCEPTIONS OF PRICE DISCRIMINATION: A BRIEF REVIEW ..................................................................... 1239 A. Price Discrimination, Defined .......................................... 1239 B. Arbitrage, Market Power, and Price Discrimination ........ 1243 C. Price Discriminatio...

the aim of this study is to evaluate the sport marketing mix and its seven elements (product, price, promotion, place, public relations, people, and physical evidence) in iran’s volleyball super league from the viewpoint of ministry of sport and volleyball federation managers in two conditions, namely existing and optimal. for this purpose, 102 subjects, among them the official staffs in the mi...