budget plays an important role in public sector management and administration .one of its components is revenues forecasting and without the necessary accuracy in predicting revenues, government deficit will occur and people are incapable of facing with losses of reducing of important and essential services like education and health care. in this study, the rational expectations hypothesis is a...

The tax-expenditure hypothesis posed by Milton Friedman emphasizes a positive causal relationship between government tax revenues and government expenditures. If citizens do not have a correct perception of the real tax burden and under-estimate the price of public goods and services, there is a negative causal relationship between tax revenues and government expenditures, which indicates exist...

This paper experimentally studies the pay-to-bid auction format and compares average revenues in the discrete time simultaneous decision model to average revenues in the continuous time setting experienced in pay-to-bid auctions on the internet. For both of the group sizes studied, 3 and 5, there is no difference in the average revenues between the two environments. However, there is significan...

Abstract. We analyze annual revenues and earnings data for the 500 largest-revenue U.S. companies during the period 1954-2007. We find that mean year profits are proportional to mean year revenues, exception made for few anomalous years, from which we postulate a linear relation between company expected mean profit and revenue. Mean annual revenues are used to scale both company profits and rev...

Results: Ten thousand three hundred one adult, non–trauma-system ED patients arrived by ambulance in 2002 and 2003, with average hospital revenues of $4,492. Each hour spent on diversion was associated with $1,086 (95% confidence interval $611 to $1,461) in forgone hospital revenues from ambulance patients. In August 2002, the study hospital increased its staffed ICU beds from 47 to 67, and div...