The paper develops a quality adjusted professional sports franchise price index for North America based on a repeat sale method. This index reflects trends in the general price of sports franchises holding local market, facility, and team characteristics constant. The price index exhibits considerable volatility but no upward trend over time, unlike previous quality adjusted price indexes based...

Implementation of pharmacists services provided in all pharmacies must meet the standard pharmaceutical guidelines, including provision drug information. The study aims to compare patient's perception counseling by pharmacy staff based on type ownership (franchise/non-franchise) Semarang. This research is an observational with a cross-sectional design. Samples were taken 286 respondents quota s...

Jarrell (J Law Econ 21:269–295, 1978) found that electricity prices fell more slowly in states that adopted state regulation before 1917, suggesting that regulators were “captured” by the interests of the regulated electric utilities. An alternative explanation is that state regulation more credibly protected specialized utility assets from regulatory opportunism than did the municipal franchis...

This paper corrects Proposition 1 in Acemoglu and Robinson (2000). It shows that in addition to parts of the parameter space where the unique MPE is franchise extension and temporary redistribution, there is an intermediate part of the parameter space where the unique MPE is in mixed strategies. In this region, there is a positive probability of franchise extension, but also a revolution takes ...

Peraturan perundang-undangan tentang Waralaba (franchise) mengamanatkan bahwa Franchisor diwajibkan memberi pembinaan kepada franchisee berwujud pelatihan; bimbingan operasional manajemen; pemasaran; penelitian; serta pengembangan secara berkelanjutan dan tapi kewajiban ini tidak selalu dituangkan dalam kontrak franchise. Penelitian bertujuan untuk menganalisis akibat hukum (konsekuensi yuridis...

The article introduces the notion of probabilistic net present value which is used as a criterion for choice between a franchise purchase or creation of independent company.

This research explores the situation in which a franchisee exits the franchise system but continues to operate independently. This action is a form of brand piracy as the former franchisee exploits the intellectual property of the franchisor. A franchisor, a former franchisee and a current franchisee from six franchise systems were interviewed in order to obtain diametrical viewpoints. It was c...

The aim of this research is to determine the degree of quality, stated in terms of interactivity and usability, of websites from Spanish franchises in the field of Optics and Optometry. For this purpose, all the existing bibliography was checked and the concept of interactivity and usability in websites was also defined. Besides, a series of indicators (Nielsen) were chosen which enabled us to ...