The pricing behavior of non-profit hospitals is an important issue given the size of the non-profit hospital sector in relation to the for-profit sector. It is generally accepted in the literature that for-profit hospitals set higher prices than their non-profit counterparts. However, there is disagreement over the relative behavior of the different types of hospital in the presence of market p...

This note serves as a basic introduction on the analysis of infinity harmonic functions, a subject that has received considerable interests very recently. The author discusses its connection with absolute minimal Lipschitz extension, present several equivalent characterizations of infinity harmonic functions. He presents the celebrated theorem by R. Jensen [17] on the uniqueness of infinity har...

0306-2619/$ see front matter 2012 Elsevier Ltd. A doi:10.1016/j.apenergy.2012.01.035 ⇑ Corresponding author at: Institute for Low Carbo China Electric Power University, Beijing, China. Tel.: + E-mail addresses: [email protected] (X. Z (T.P. Lyon). China’s electricity industry has experienced two major stages of development: from 1949 to 1984, the industry was treated as a subordinate sect...