there are two major methods in predincing the pattern of share value in the stock market: fundamental analysis and technical analysis. i this study we developed a novel model for fundamental analysis of share price and validated it by predicting the behavior of phrama share price in tehran stock market. the efficiency of the fundamental method was compared with that of indicator-based technical...

Zipf distribution is known to describe various natural and social phenomena, including size of starts, city populations, words frequency in literature, immune systems, and size of firms. In this paper we show that market shares in the world cola-drink market follows a special kind of skewed distribution, which we call polynomial distribution

This paper examines the role of advertising in the evolution of market structure in the US mutual fund industry. First, I present empirical evidence that mass advertising in this industry creates endogenous sunk costs, resulting in patterns consistent with Sutton’s (1991) predictions. In particular, I contrast evolutionary patterns of advertising spending and market structure between two segmen...

Market share objectives are prominent in many industries, especially where managers pay much attention to league table rankings. This paper explores the strategic rationale for giving managers incentives based on market share, motivated by evidence from executive compensation practice in the automotive and investment banking industries. Strategic incentives for market share dominate the well-kn...

A large reduction in use of inpatient care combined with the incentives in the Affordable Care Act is leading to significant consolidation in the hospital industry. What was once a set of independent hospitals having arms-length relationships with physicians and clinicians who provide ambulatory care is becoming a small number of locally integrated health systems, generally built around large, ...

Game theory is the study of mathematical models and cooperation between intelligent rational decision-makers. This paper provides a flexible model to calculate pay-off matrix based on several importance factors. This model is adapted by cooperative game and developed for some competitive advantages sections in pharmaceutical industry. An optimum solution is derived by considering Nash equilibri...