The present study analyzes the deployment of technologies to reduce CO2 emission in the global energy sector and the implied costs using the energy-economy-climate model ReMIND. The results depend on the policy chosen for inducing changes of investments. Climate policies price emissions and therefore induce changes of investments. The mitigation costs of less than 1% of GDP are relatively small...

Low-cost providers have emerged as important players in many service industries, the most predominant being low-cost, or the so-called discount airlines. This paper presents models and results leading toward understanding the revenue management outlook for a discount pricing firm. A framework and model is formulated specifically for the airline industry, but is generalizable to low-cost provide...

The theory of sponsored search has been developing rapidly although with disagreement in scientific circles on answers to some basic questions about sponsored search. This study focuses on two of these questions, namely, if a search engine seeks to maximize profits, 1) what should its pricing policy be and 2) what should its ranking policy be. This paper uses experiments with economically motiv...

The Differentiated Services architecture allows a service provider to configure new services dynamically using a policy protocol. This benefit, however, may not be fully realized if the service provider need a high effort to update its billing system to charge for the services. Thus, there is a real need for a flexible billing architecture. To meet this need, a policy-based billing architecture...

Using time series data over the past four decades, 1960s-1990s, this paper examines rice pricing policies in Thailand, Indonesia, and the Philippines. It analyzes the determinants of the paths along which these policies have moved. While this analysis confirms the findings of previous analyses, that price stabilization has been a major policy achievement, it also reveals that stabilization was ...

At one time, JEAB editorial policy was perceived by some to consist mainly of dogmatically enforcing a Skinnerian interpretation of all findings reported in the journal. Partly in response to that undeserved reputation, the journal explicitly defined itself as the place to publish research on the behavior of individual organisms, and not as a place that encourages any particular theoretical ori...

Thepurpose of this studywas to examinedefinedbuying factors affecting trust building and service performance in financialmanagement systems such as e-commerce.We conducted a study of 585 people in their 20–30 s who had experience with e-commerce websites and purchased fashion products from Oct. 1. to 30. 2010. The findings are summarized as follows. First, exploratory factor analysis was conduc...

Discusses the features which distinguish the market for residential property from the markets for other assets. Proposes that financial institutions should offer house buyers indemnity policies which pay out an amount related to any fall in the level of a general index of house prices, on the sale of the house at a loss at any time during the mortgage term. To facilitate hedging the risk of a p...

Context and aims Internationally, the repertoire of alcohol pricing policies has expanded to include targeted taxation, inflation-linked taxation, taxation based on alcohol-by-volume (ABV), minimum pricing policies (general or targeted), bans of below-cost selling and restricting price-based promotions. Policy makers clearly need to consider how options compare in reducing harms at the populati...

The pricing problem in a multi-period setting is a challenging problem and has attracted much attention in recent years. In this thesis, we consider a monopoly and an oligopoly pricing problem. In the latter, several sellers simultaneously seek an optimal pricing policy for their products. The products are assumed to be differentiated and substitutable. Each seller has the option to set prices ...