We exploit a unique merchant-level dataset from the monopoly payment card network in China to study payment card pricing. We develop hypotheses associating payment card pricing to card penetration rate, profitability and fraud risk. Our empirical analysis uses the variations in those three factors across industries to show that the card network charges a higher merchant discount for industries ...

Hybrid rice cultivation has not increased significantly in Karnataka since the introduction of hybrids in the state in the mid-1990s. This study focuses on the profitability aspects of hybrid rice cultivation based on farmers’ experiences during the 2000-01 crop year. Hybrid rice was found to be higher yielding but less profitable than existing high-yielding varieties. The paper provides reason...

The efficient production of milk drives the profitability of the dairy enterprise. Within a dairy herd, total milk production is determined by the proportion of cows producing milk at any given time and the level of milk production of the individual cows within the herd (Vandehaar, 1998). Both of these factors are dramatically affected by reproductive efficiency. Improving reproductive efficien...

Using unique archival data on 81 projects from a major ERP vendor, we study whether transaction characteristics are included in the vendor’s estimation of risk to project profitability. We hypothesize that project size, contract type, strategic importance, and client familiarity are included in the risk estimations. Regression analysis suggests that, surprisingly, vendors do not include all tra...

We assess the impact of merger policy on entry and entrepreneurship. Facing uncertainty about its prospects and foreseeing that it may wish to quit should profitability prove poor, a rational entrant considers possible exit routes. Horizontal merger reduces competition subsequently, lowering welfare in the short run, but also provides a valuable exit route. By facilitating exit and thus raising...

In this paper we proposed a novel mechanism (BICL)for communication, coordination and a protocol is designed for vehicular active networks . BICL permits each sensor node to autonomously determine its next-hop selection and channel access strategy using bioinspired next-hop selection and channel access profitability measures. Based on these profitability measures, BICL provides optimal performa...

The scope of this article is to explore the transaction profitability of frequent and sporadic buyers in the e-commerce arena. Evidence in relationship marketing literature stressing the impact of purchase frequency on customer transaction profitability as well as recent academic research challenging this approach and pointing out the importance of sporadic clients is analyzed and presented. A ...

We assess the impact of merger policy on entry and entrepreneurship. Facing uncertainty about its prospects and foreseeing that it may wish to quit should profitability prove poor, a rational entrant considers possible exit routes. Horizontal merger reduces competition subsequently, lowering welfare in the short run, but also provides a valuable exit route. By facilitating exit and thus raising...

We examine the asset pricing implications of a neoclassical model of repeated investment and disinvestment. Prior research has emphasized a negative relation between productivity and equity risk that results from operating leverage when capital adjustment is costly. In general, however, expansion and contraction options affect risk in the opposite direction: they lower equity risk as profitabil...

It is widely recognized that a large variation in productivity and profitability exists between farms in a country, and similarly, between countries in a global economy. Some profitability variables are due to cost of inputs and management and these are controllable by producers; other factors are not so easily predicted or controlled, for example: 65% of income variation is estimated to be due...