The availability of a new product in store creates an informative spillover that extends past the itself through word-of-mouth advertising. Because this spillover, each retailer is able to extract slotting fee from manufacturer at introduction. Slotting fees may discourage innovation by and, turn, reduce consumer surplus and social welfare. A more likely pay lower when it can advertise heavily,...

Producers in a perfectly competitive industry compete to obtain shelf space at the retail level. Barring contract observability problems, slotting allowances are observed in equilibrium. Producers charge a high wholesale price, but give back their profits via up-front payments to retailers. However, if the individual supplier retailer wholesale price terms are unobservable by competitors, then ...

Popular fault-tolerant TDMA-based protocols like TT-CAN ([Fu00] and [Mu02]), TTP ([KG93]) and FlexRay ([Fl02]) are using a static slotting scheme for bus arbitration. This paper describes a possible solution for a more flexible handling of the slotting, by providing extra time of variable length in the cycle for additional slots. These extra time is only provided if it is requested by the contr...

Many advertisers (bidders) use Internet systems to buy advertisements on publishers’ webpages or on traditional media such as radio, TV and newsprint. They seek a simple, online mechanism to reserve ad slots in advance. On the other hand, media publishers (sellers) represent a vast and varying inventory, and they too seek automatic, online mechanisms for pricing and allocating such reservations...

Abstract The paper presents a structure diagram of slot trencher when planting garden, consisting frame on which working sections, bevel gear reducer and support wheel stands are fixed. On the section there is shaft with body - disk cutter. It made in form disc teeth, one cutting edge each tooth straight other parabolic. parabolic elements fixed knives two parts. A along periphery; guide entire...