A common sales tactic is for a seller to encourage a potential customer to make her purchase decision quickly. We consider a market with sequential consumer search in which firms often encourage first-time visitors to buy immediately, either by making an “exploding offer” (which permits no return once the consumer leaves) or by offering a “buy-now discount” (which makes the price paid for immed...

OBJECTIVE To determine if psychiatric hospitalization precluded a return to occupational status in United States Air Force aviators. DESIGN A 7-yr retrospective review that joined hospitalization and occupational databases using individual identifiers. SUBJECTS From a population of over 35,000 USAF rated aviation officers present between January 1986 and December 1990, 214 were both psychia...

The aim of this paper is to develop an optimization model for quality improvement by considering quality investment in rework policies and supply chain profit sharing. To improve product’s quality, the decision of process target and its tolerance is important since it directly affects the defective rate, manufacturing cost, and loss to customer due to the deviation of product from its specifica...

Sehrish Gul Faiza Irshad Khalid Zaman The purpose of this research is to examine the relationship between bank-specific and macro-economic characteristics over bank profitability by using data of top fifteen Pakistani commercial banks over the period 2005-2009. This paper uses the pooled Ordinary Least Square (POLS) method to investigate the impact of assets, loans, equity, deposits, economic g...

Monica Fisher Rural Poverty Research Center, Oregon State University, 221 Ballard Hall, Corvallis, OR 97331; [email protected] Abstract This paper examines the role forests play in alleviating poverty in rural Malawi. Data from three villages in southern Malawi indicate high levels of forest dependence. Gini decomposition shows that access to forest income reduced measured income inequal...

The aim of the study is to develop an effective approach formulating and adjusting return policy large e-commerce companies in Russian Federation taking into account interests marketplace participants. Research methodology includes modern methods multi-criterial choice accounting for preferences decision makers. paper provides up-to-date assessment actual Federation, also proposes a solving pro...

working capital management is one of the management structure of an organization that plays a fundamental role and also is as a major force in evolution of the organization. so it is important to acquire economic profits. this study investigates the relationship between working capital policy and profitability of companies in automobile, pharmaceutical and mineral industries in tehran stock exc...