Retailers have long recognized that some categories aremore important than others in consumers’ store choice decisions. The overall profitability of a store requires careful categorylevel merchandising decisions to draw the most desirable consumers into the store. However, the traditional accounting measure of category profits offers imperfect helpmaking these decisions since it does not take i...

Pricing directly affects the sustainable development of flexible bus service. This study proposes a profit maximization model and social welfare for operator based on cumulative prospect theory. Fares uncertain travel time due to unforeseen detours in serving passengers jointly affect passengers’ mode choice. On other hand, fares probabilistic choices over determine profits company welfare. exp...

This is a survey of the Steiner tree problem with profits, a variation of the classical Steiner problem where, besides the costs associated with edges, there are also revenues associated with vertices. The relationships between these costs and revenues are taken into consideration when deciding which vertices should be spanned by the solution tree. The survey contains a classification of the pr...

Economic transitions have the potential to displace workers and cause social unrest. Coal mine closures resulting employment losses in rural areas become salient issues. Using data on coal power plant operation, we model closure as a function of expected profits, which allows us compare effects specific demand supply shocks profits. Increasing costs production had large impact closures, but low...

T salesman problems with profits (TSPs with profits) are a generalization of the traveling salesman problem (TSP), where it is not necessary to visit all vertices. A profit is associated with each vertex. The overall goal is the simultaneous optimization of the collected profit and the travel costs. These two optimization criteria appear either in the objective function or as a constraint. In t...

The paper studies the impact of bank specific, industry specific and macroeconomic factors affecting profitability of Indian Banks in a dynamic model framework. The persistence of bank profits and endogeneity of the factors have been accounted for using Generalised Method of Moments (GMM) as suggested in Arellano & Bond, 1991.The panel data for the study have been obtained from 42 Indian Schedu...

this research has been developed based on the existing studies and theoretical resources; it poses some questions for an interview and in-depth exploration of some of the burglars in qom in 2016. to investigate the causes and the tendency towards burglary and to analyze our data, the inductive approach for qualitative data analysis derived from interviews and the grounded theory were used. samp...

We examine the evolving structure of the US hospital industry since 1970, focusing on how ownership form influences entry and exit behavior. We develop theoretical predictions based on the model of Lakdawalla and Philipson, in which for-profit and not-for-profit hospitals differ regarding their objectives and costs of capital. The model predicts for-profits would be quicker to enter and exit th...