This paper studies the e ect of the airline industry's operational time-line on multi-market competition and carrier network structure selection. Airline carriers typically commit to a rigid capacity of seats via the planned ights schedule long before market competition for selling these seats begins. While in regular markets such a two stage setting has no e ect on competitive behavior, the ai...

In a choice among assured, familiar outcomes of behavior, impulsiveness is the choice of less rewarding over more rewarding alternatives. Discussions of impulsiveness in the literature of economics, sociology, social psychology, dynamic psychology and psychiatry, behavioral psychology, and "behavior therapy" are reviewed. 'Impulsiveness seems to be best accounted for by the hyberbolic curves th...

In the literature on working memory (WM), a paradox exists according to which very similar memory tasks provide support for very different estimates of working memory capacity. The current paper analyses the conflicting estimates of a capacity of 4+/-1 with a capacity of 1. To this end a dynamic process model of short-term recognition is used to generate data to which exponential speed-accuracy...

The creation of electricity markets has raised the fundamental question as to whether markets provide the right incentives for the provision of the reserves needed to maintain system reliability, or whether some form of regulation is needed. In some states in the US, electricity retailers have been made responsible for providing such reserves by contracting capacity in excess of their forecaste...

We study the capacity of multi-hop wireless net. works with TCP regulated tramr We study the dependence of the capacity on the transmission range of nodes in the network. Specifically, we examine the sensitivity of the capacity tu the speed of the nodes and the number of TCP connections in an ad hoc net. work. By incorporating the notion of a minimal acceptable Qc3 metric (loss) for au individu...

We measure the capacity output of a firm as the maximum amount producible by a firm given a specific quantity of the quasi-fixed input and an overall expenditure constraint for its choice of variable inputs. We compute this indirect capacity utilization measure for the total manufacturing sector in the US as well as for a number of disaggregated industries, for the period 1970-2001. We find con...

Merchant electricity transmission investment is a practically relevant example of an unregulated investment with monopoly properties. However, while leaving the investment decision to the market, the regulator may decide to prohibit capacity withholding with a must-offer provision. This paper examines the welfare effects of a must-offer provision prior to the capacity choice, given three reason...

In this paper we investigate the relationship between network capacity and topology for Bluetooth scatternets. We start by considering the intrinsic capacity limits of a scatternet structure, and we show that limiting capacity may be achieved for very local traffic and under specific conditions on the scatternet structure. Then, we provide a description of the performance achievable with two ba...

This study proposes a differentiated duopoly model considering capacity constraints and shared manufacturing, investigates the effects of product differentiation in three scenarios, compares equilibrium outcomes cases under Cournot Stackelberg competitions. We find that affect relationships between results, even market share enterprises. Shared manufacturing impacts degree excess capacity, prof...