Many US states and Canadian provinces have recently lifted bans on off-premise retail liquor sales on Sundays, yet there is no evidence on how such provisions affect drinking. We investigate this issue using unique information on day-specific alcohol consumption from Canada’s National Population Health Surveys (1994-1999) and variation across provinces in the presence of a Sunday sales restrict...

We consider an environment where one or more servers carry databases that are of interest to a community of clients. The clients are only intermittently connected to the server for brief periods of time. Clients carry a part of the database for their own processing and accumulate local updates while disconnected. We call this the Intermittently Connected Database (ICDB) environment. ICDBs have ...

Copyright 2005 by Helena Johansson. All rights reserved. Readers may make verbatim copies of this document for non-commercial purposes by any means, provided that this copyright notice appears on all such copies. Abstract Technical, allocative, and economic input efficiency scores were estimated for an unbalanced panel of Swedish dairy farms, using data envelopment analysis (DEA) and the stocha...

The study of innovation performance helps to complete the measure of development ability of venture enterprise for college students. The study builds models of Stochastic Frontier Analysis on innovation performance of college students’ venture enterprise by setting up Variable quantity and putting forward a hypothesis. This paper sampled 20 historical data about college students’ venture enterp...

Aim To explore tobacco profit margins and sales among small retailers in England. Methods Interviews with managers/owners of 62 small retail shops that sold tobacco in disadvantaged areas of Newcastle and London, England. The interviews included questions about tobacco sales and profit margins, and interest in reducing reliance on tobacco sales. Results The majority of retailers (89%) repor...

Firms spend a significant part of their marketing budgets on sales promotions. Retail (2012) indicates that during 1997–2011, promotion accounted for roughly 75% of marketing expenditures for US packaged goods manufacturers; the other 25% was for advertising. In 2011, 58% of the budget was spent on promotion to the trade (i.e., from manufacturers to retailers), and 15% on manufacturer promotion...

Sales forecasting is one of the most important issues in managing information technology (IT) chain store sales since an IT chain store has many branches. Integrating feature extraction method and prediction tool, such as support vector regression (SVR), is a useful method for constructing an effective sales forecasting scheme. Independent component analysis (ICA) is a novel feature extraction ...

Purpose: The present research examines the role of sales manager support in promoting the subjective well-being of salespeople as well as the function of the sales manager in cultivating positive, motivating and productive environments. Design/methodology/approach: An exploratory assessment of the relationship between sales manager support and emotional health in salespeople was conducted by in...