Economic growth drivers aimed at stimulating and stabilizing the economies of countries to engender sustainable growth. Studies have shown that Nigeria has been plagued with stunted faltering economic over years. Tax other relevant macroeconomic policies are implemented by government smoothen out fluctuations but this not fully harnessed. A causal-effect study was conducted between tax revenue,...

W e consider a supply chain with a supplier that sells to a retailer under a revenue-sharing arrangement. Demand is uncertain and unobservable to the supplier. We assume that the retailer is rational, that is, the retailer behaves opportunistically and underreports sales revenues to the supplier whenever such underreporting is profitable. Assuming the supplier has the ability to audit the retai...

A total of 399 crossbred ewes born in 2 yr were maintained either on irrigated or dryland hill pastures. The ewes were sired by North Country Cheviot, Dorset, Finnsheep or Romney rams mated to Suffolk or Columbia-type ewes. The crossbred ewes were mated to Hampshire rams throughout the study and had the opportunity for either 4 or 5 yr of production. Annual feed cost was calculated based upon e...

State governments have traditionally raised revenue from business by taxing corporate income. But in recent years the growing difficulty of administering state corporate income taxes has prompted a search for alternative ways of taxing companies. This search for new business taxes has ironically sparked a resurgence in one of the world’s oldest broad-based tax structures: the gross receipts tax...

We investigate the extent to which price updates can increase the revenue of a seller with little prior information on demand. We study prior-free revenue maximization for a seller with unlimited supply of n item types facing m myopic buyers present for k< logn days. For the static (k = 1) case, Balcan et al. [2] show that one random item price (the same on each item) yields revenue within a Θ(...

This paper studies revenue-sharing contracts in distribution chains in the presence of win-win conditions. Revenue-sharing contracts are a mechanism to coordinate the firms in a distribution chain. Under these contracts the retailer shares its revenue with the supplier in exchange for a lower wholesale price. The win-win conditions are natural conditions requiring that the profit of any firm ma...

JADA Middle East vol 2 No 4 Jul-Aug 2011 JADA 142(4) http://jada.ada.org April 2011 441 Fixed prosthodontics is one of the major components of clinical activity for U.S. dentists. It has been estimated that in 2010, about 36 million units of fixed prostheses were placed in the United States (R. Braswell, coexecutive director, National Association of Dental Laboratories, oral communication, Jan....