Vertical Relationships and Competition in Retail Gasoline Markets: Empirical Evidence from Contract Changes in Southern California By JUSTINE S. HASTINGS* Since the late 1990’s‚ West Coast cities have consistently experienced substantially higher retail gasoline prices than other regions of the country. For example‚ for the rst week of August 1999‚ the price of reformulated gasoline in California was 39.6 cents higher than the average price in Gulf Coast States (about 10 cents of this difference
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Speculative attacks on fixed exchange rate regimes Introduction In my essay I will focus on the problem of speculative attacks on the countries with fixed exchange rate regimes. By definition a speculative attack on a fixed exchange rate is the attempt of currency market participants to force Central Bank to abandon the support of fixed exchange rate regime‚ thus getting profit from the jump in exchange rate of foreign currency. Obviously‚ appreciation of domestic currency as the result from
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Journal of Information Management 30 (2010) 289–300 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect International Journal of Information Management journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/ijinfomgt Understanding customer satisfaction and loyalty: An empirical study of mobile instant messages in China Zhaohua Deng a‚∗ ‚ Yaobin Lu a ‚ Kwok Kee Wei b ‚ Jinlong Zhang a a b School of Management‚ Huazhong University of Science and Technology‚ 1037 Luoyu Road‚ Hongshan District‚ Wuhan‚ China Department of Information
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Organizacija‚ Volume 45 Research papers Number 1‚ January-February 2012 DOI: 10.2478/v10051-012-0002-8 Intercultural Differences in the Purchase and Information Behaviour of Young Consumers Beno Klemenčič1‚ Gabrijel Devetak2‚ Darko Števančec1 1 Business School Murska Sobota‚ Noršinska ulica 13‚ 9000 Murska Sobota‚ Slovenia‚ beno.klemencic@gmail.com; Da01111@gmail.com 2 Faculty of Commercial and Business Sciences‚ Lava 7‚ 3000 Celje‚ Slovenia‚ mandrija@siol.net Pressures in
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Organization Design and Development (MGT- 561) An Empirical Literature Review of Organizational Design and Control across Multiple Markets: The Case of Franchising in the Convenience Store Industry Michael T. Cook Phone: 518-961-6511 Sage Graduate School Topic: An Empirical Literature Review of Organizational Design and Control across Multiple Markets: The Case of Franchising in the Convenience Store Industry Introduction Companies get into expansion mode by having a number of business
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The article is a research paper about segmentation of different traveler groups within the travel industry in order to help tourism managers to set proper policies and fit their service and marketing strategies to their customers. The main idea was it to find the different views according to motivation of traveling and destination activities of two age groups. These age groups were the generation Y ages 18 to 23 and the generation X ages 24 to 40. The research showed that there were major differences
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The SIJ Transactions on Industrial‚ Financial & Business Management (IFBM)‚ Vol. 2‚ No. 7‚ September 2014 Factors Influencing Employee’s Job Satisfaction: An Empirical Study among Employees of Automobile Service Workshops in Assam Bidyut Bijoya Neog* & Dr. Mukulesh Barua** *Research Scholar‚ University of Science and Technology‚ Meghalaya‚ INDIA. E-Mail: bbneog{at}gmail{dot}com **Executive Director‚ Royal Group of Institutions & Principal‚ Royal School of Business‚ Guwahati‚ Assam‚ INDIA. E-Mail:
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Critically evaluate the claim that “the ordering of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs is accurate”. Refer to relevant theoretical and empirical evidence to support your argument. Maslow’s hierarchy of needs is one of the most important theoretical systems in humanistic psychology. However‚ the ordering of this system is not accurate and this is evidenced by various criticisms of Maslow’s conception of ‘self-actualisation.’ Individuals do not need to satisfy the lower needs in order to reach self-actualisation
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EXPLAIN THE RATIONALE FOR THE EXISTENCE OF SUPPLIER INDUCED DEMAND IN HEALTH CARE AND EXPLORE THE EXTENT TO WHICH EMPIRICAL WORK HAS BEEN ABLE TO ESTABLISH ITS EXISTENCE Introduction: In the traditional market‚ consumers decide how much to consume and suppliers decide how much to supply and prices coordinate the decisions. For perfect competition it is assumed inter alia that there is: perfect information so that individuals are fully informed about prices‚ qualities etc; a lot of buyers and
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An Empirical Analysis of the Volatile Stock Behavior at the event of Dividend Announcement: Evidence from Indian Capital Market (National Stock Exchange of India) ABSTRACT This paper analyses the impact of dividend announcement on company stock returns for 25 companies listed in five different indices on National Stock Exchange (NSE) i.e. Indian Capital Market. The study has been conducted with the help of event study methodology for a window of 31 days in total. The study gives a comparative
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