According to a recently introduced theory (Spann, Zeithammer and Häubl 2010), a name-your-own-price retailer should benefit from charging prospective buyers a non-refundable bidding fee rather than providing the bidding opportunity free of charge. We use an incentive-compatible experiment to provides the first empirical test of the profitability of bidding fees. Confirming the theory’s qualitat...

This study seeks to investigate the growth in agricultural, industrial and services sector of Pakistan in terms of their relative impacts on poverty reduction within the country. Further, it identifies the dynamic effects of growth on poverty as a way to capture the usual ‘trickle down’ effects. Secondary data ranging from 1981-2010 are used in the analysis and the results are obtained through ...

This study exploits the introduction of the London Congestion Charge (CC) that greatly improves traffic conditions in Central London to provide new evidence on the capitalization of traffic externalities onto housing values. The Congestion Charge restricts traffic into the cordoned area by imposing a flat fee on drivers whenever they enter during charging periods. I show that the introduction o...

Web proxies and Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) are widely used to accelerate Web content delivery and to conserve Internet bandwidth. These caching agents are highly eeective for static content, which is an important component of all Web-based services. This paper explores the eeect of ubiquitous Web caching on the request patterns seen by other components of an end-to-end content delivery ar...

Emergency l ight ing systems are frequently employed as a required safety feature within business premises. These systems comprise essentially of a control circuit, a battery pack, a trickle charging circuit, and either an in-built incandescent lamp, or an inverter that will allow the battery supply to drive the existing fluorescent tubes. It is the latter version, and the requisite DC-AC inver...

In this study, a mathematical model is proposed which incorporates mass transfer process and biofilm reactions in trickle bed air biofilter (TBAB). The model consists of a set of mass balance equations for isopropyl alcohol (IPA), acetone (ACE) and oxygen within the bulk gas phase and within the biofilm. These set of ordinary differential equations are converted into non-dimensionalised form an...