Ethnographic research identifies brokering (a.k.a., “copping for others”) as an important and popular way people who use heroin acquire the drug by making purchases for their peers. Brokering is when a customer buys drugs for a fellow customer using the buyer’s money and is paid using drug the buyer purchases. This distributes heroin costs. Heroin dealers obviously manipulate price and/or drug ...

In today's competitive environment, profitability analysis is not just about looking at the profit and loss statement. It is more about knowing which of your customers are making you money and which are losing you money. This paper considers how activity-based costing approach may complement a customer relationship management effort. The model presented in this paper combines the principles of ...

The relationship between financial development, growth and inflation has been analyzed by a number of recent empirical studies in Pakistan. Sizeable research finds that money supply growth at beginning affects real GDP growth and further it affects inflation in Pakistan. These two step process doesn’t fulfill the specification of the consequences. Therefore, this study looks at the association ...

Since the increased importance is placed on customer equity in today’s business environment, many firms are focusing on the notion of customer loyalty and profitability to increasing market share. Building successful customer relationship management (CRM), a firm starts from identifying customers’ true value and loyalty since customer value can provide basic information to deploy more targeted ...

For superior decision making, the mining of interesting patterns and rules becomes one of the most indispensible tasks in today’s business environment. Although there have been many successful customer relationship management (CRM) applications based on sequential pattern mining techniques, they basically assume that the importance of each customer are the same. Many studies in CRM show that no...

The effect of monetary policy on prices and output in any economy cannot be overlooked. This is germane given the implications various macroeconomic outcomes. In doing this, Fully Modified Ordinary Least Squares (FMOLS) method was deployed base preliminary findings to test relationship for Nigeria. Findings revealed that money supply exchange rate exhibit significant output, while does not. Als...

We examine the extent to which fluctuations in the money stock anticipate (or Granger cause) fluctuations in real output using a variety of rolling window and increasing window estimation techniques. Various models are considered using simple sum as well as Divisia measures of M1 and M2, income, prices, and both the Tbill rate and the commercial paper rate. Findings indicate that the relation b...