In this paper we present a four-level market model that accounts for airport capacity extension, fleet investment, aircraft scheduling, and ticket trade. In particular, budget-constrained airports decide on the first level on their optimal runway capacity extension and on a corresponding airport charge. Airports anticipate optimal long-term fleet investment of airlines on the second level, opti...

--------------------------------------------------------ABSTRACT----------------------------------------------------------Recent works in structured P2P systems exploit DHT to support publish/subscribe(Pub/Sub) protocols. Some of these approaches require the existence of a so-called rendezvous node where subscriptions meet events, thus easily creating bottlenecks. By contrast, unstructured P2P ...

Background Health insurance has been acknowledged by researchers as a valuable tool in health financing. In spite of its significance, a subscription paralysis has been observed in India for this product. People who can afford health insurance are also found to be either ignorant or aversive towards it. This study is designed to investigate into the socio-economic factors, individuals’ health i...

This paper describes a laboratory experiment of electricity markets to study the effect of variable capacity utilization over market dynamics. Previous experiments have left out a potential source of cyclical behavior by assuming full capacity utilization. We run 12 experimental markets of the power generation sector, involving two treatments: a first treatment with fixed (full) capacity utiliz...

This paper investigates corporate social responsibility (CSR) and its implications for governance by means of a case study of mining, with an analysis of global debates, national discourse and policy, and local manifestations. It includes company-level analysis within a political economy framework, investigating CSR in terms of the discourse, practices, and social relations that define it. The ...

The Federal Court of Appeal recently rendered its judgment in Citibank15 and affirmed the Tax Court of Canada’s earlier decision.16 The issue in Citibank was whether certain shares constituted “term preferred shares,” as defined in subsection 248(1) of the Act. Where a specified financial institution (SFI) acquires term preferred shares in the ordinary course of business, subsection 112(2.1) of...