Availability and requirements in UK retail markets — New data sets

A New Job Scheduling in Data Grid Environment Based on Data and Computational Resource Availability

Data Grid is an infrastructure that controls huge amount of data files, and provides intensive computational resources across geographically distributed collaboration. The heterogeneity and geographic dispersion of grid resources and applications place some complex problems such as job scheduling. Most existing scheduling algorithms in Grids only focus on one kind of Grid jobs which can be data...

Pricing in Retail Gasoline Markets

Price Discrimination in Retail Markets

The hypothesis that price discrimination exploiting the consumer's willingness to pay for quality can occur in multi-firm industries is confirmed using microdata on retail gasoline prices. A test based on the price differentials at stations providing only one service quality (full or self service) and stations providing both qualities is developed and implemented with controls for variations in...

Electronic Retail Markets

The economic system has created a number of institutions which should, from the transaction cost point of view, assure the most advantageous distribution of needs. Thus the price can become a means of information, indicating the collective situation of supply and demand, according to microeconomic theory. Today’s market places are much more complex, remotely located and supported by mail and te...

Electronic Retail Markets

We refer to the sale of goods and services to end consumers (i.e. a mass of clients with small quantity requirements) aq retail markets. These normally include private clients, households and small businesses. Therefore, the cost of transactions in retail markets tends to be rather high compared to those encountered with instltutionalclients. Bullding upon thepotentiel that electronic ' markets...