Online auction buyers often face the predicament of choosing between the buyout strategy and the bidding strategy to acquire an auctioned product. A buyer who chooses to buy out will obtain the item immediately at the posted price while the one who chooses to bid will have to monitor the bidding process in the hope of acquiring the product at a price lower than the posted one. Despite the wealt...

<p style='text-indent:20px;'>This paper studies the retailer's optimal promotional pricing, special order quantity and screening rate for defective items when a temporary price reduction (i.e., TPR) is offered. Although previous have examined similar issue, they assume constant demand an error-free process. A subversion of these two assumptions differentiates our paper. First, using price...

This paper aims to determine the impact of dividend policy on stock price volatility by taking firms listed on Tehran stock exchange.  A sample of 68 listed companies from Tehran stock exchange is examined for a period from 2001 to 2012.  The estimation is based on cross-sectional ordinary least square regression analysis to find the relationship between share price volatility and dividend poli...

Sales promotions such as temporary price reductions are frequently used by managers to stimulate sales in the short run. Marketing academics and practitioners tend to rely on price elasticities to summarize sales promotion effects. Although elasticities have some attractive benefits such as the invariance to measurement units, they have led to three misinterpretations in the marketing literatur...

Stock price crash risk has a significant impact on investors, creditors, managers, and shareholders, so the prediction of this phenomenon is a very important issue in investment and risk management decisions. This research investigates the effect of business strategy and stock price synchronicity on stock price crash risk. Following Bentley et al.[2], composite strategy score has been used to ...