be used in the real world but merely in-game or in-app purchases. Nature of these in-app purchases could be anything from clothes and accessories for your character in the game to purchases of the next level in the game. In order to understand pricing of virtual goods‚ we need to first understand how some of the economics of in-game purchases. 1. Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games (MMORPG) have their own in-game currency. For eg: Second Life has Linden Dollars‚ World of Warcraft
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EUROPEAN CONFERENCE OF MINISTERS OF TRANSPORT R E S E A R C H C E N T R E MANAGING URBAN TRAFFIC CONGESTION Summary Document T R A N S P O R T JOINT TRANSPORT RESEARCH CENTRE In January 2004‚ the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and European Conference of Ministers of Transport (ECMT) brought together their transport research capabilities in setting up the Joint Transport Research Centre. The Centre has 50 full members from Asia-Pacific‚ Europe and
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INTRODUCTION AVIS Avis is the Australian largest car rental company‚ with 33% market share across the nation’s airports‚ employing 1000 staffs in 240 locations (Super brands 2009). The company entered Australian market in 1955‚ initially only had a market share of just 10- 11% of the car rental market. In 1962 Robert Townsend joined as President of Avis and introduced a bold advertising campaign focusing on the company’s customer service: “We’re No.2. We try harder!”. The message‚ together with its
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Transfer Pricing in India 1. Introduction Increasing participation of multi-national groups in economic activities in India has given rise to new and complex issues emerging from transactions entered into between two or more enterprises belonging to the same group. Hence‚ it was pertinent to introduce a uniform and internationally accepted mechanism of determining reasonable‚ fair and equitable profits and tax in India in the case of such multinational enterprises. Accordingly‚ the Finance
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macroeconomic variables do have some relationship with different risky assets‚ the APT postulates that the pricing of risky assets depends only on the set of variables whose influence is felt significantly by all risky assets together. This set of variables is known as the common factors of the APT.” (Otuteye 1998) An arbitrage pricing theory is basically a theory that is copied from an issue model‚ using alteration or expansion and arbitrage arguments. This theory explains the joining amongst possible
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Pricing objectives are goals that describe what a firm wants to achieve through pricing. Pricing objectives must be stated explicitly‚ and the statement should include the time frame for accomplishing them. There are six stages of setting prices. They are developing pricing objective‚ assessing the target market’s evaluation of price‚ evaluating competitors’ prices‚ choosing a basis for pricing‚ selecting a pricing strategy‚ and determining a specific price. Cost-based pricing is adding a
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March 2006 Immediate Release Hyundai Launches Family Pricing Strategy and Standardises Parts Prices The cost of owning and servicing a Hyundai has never been cheaper for Kiwi motorists from this week. Hyundai Automotive New Zealand has announced a revolutionary new parts policy that will see genuine part prices across Hyundai’s model range standardised‚ and in many cases becoming considerably cheaper. Known as the Family Pricing Strategy‚ the policy sees the price of regular maintenance
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Pricing Course Module in Marketing Management Course Modules help instructors select and sequence material for use as part of a course. Each module represents the thinking of subject matter experts about the best materials to assign and how to organize them to facilitate learning. Each module recommends four to six items. Whenever possible at least one alternative item for each main recommendation is included‚ as well as suggested supplemental readings that may provide a broader conceptual context
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Running head: IMPLEMENTING PRICING STRATEGY Implementing Pricing Strategies Janaina Logan Strayer University Strategic Market Pricing – MKT 402 Professor Charla Session-Reed March 18‚ 2011 Abstract Implementing pricing strategy decisions requires properly addressing organizational issues related to how decisions are made and enforced as well as motivational issues that encourage managers to engage in more profitable behaviors. Pricing decisions are strategic and critical
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“IMPLEMENTATION OF DYNAMIC SMART DECISION MODEL FOR VERTICAL HANDOFF” A Major Project submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirement of the degree of MASTER of engineering IN Electronics & communication engineering by NIDHI SAHNI Roll No. 20/E&C/2005 under the guidance of mr. Rajesh Rohilla DEpartment of electronics & communication engineering delhi college of engineering (university of delhi)‚ Delhi certificate This is to certify that NIDHI SAHNI carried out this thesis
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