ABSTRACT This paper demonstrates a particular model for making the pricing decisions associated with hotel booking. Implementing such pricing decisions that are designed to optimize the profitability of the hotel forms part of a policy commonly referred to as yield management. The model utilizes fore casts of demand in individual market segments to capitalize on the willingness of people in one segment to pay more than people in another segment. The procedure for doing this is necessarily time-based
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results from its application throughout a narrative literature review. Second the paper has argued that to claim whether the CAPM is dead or alive‚ some improvements on the model must be considered. Rather than take the view that one theory is right and the other is wrong‚ it is probably more accurate to say that each applies in somewhat different circumstances (assumptions). Finally it’s argued that even the examination of the CAPM’s variants is unable to solve the debate into the model. Rather
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Structures and Relating Pricing Strategies Abstract This paper analysis’s the four categories of the market structure; perfect competition; monopolistic competition‚ oligopoly and monopoly marketing structures. It will also provide pricing strategies as they are specifically related to each market structure. Each market structure possesses it own unique pricing structure that every business follows to achieve its maximum profit. Some market structures pricing strategies are simple
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Introduction One of the most problems today is the traffic congestion that we experience in the large city. We feel that it is a headache during our journey and it gave us a lot of negative effects. Traffic congestion is a condition on road networks that occurs as use increases‚ and is characterized by slower speeds‚ longer trip times‚ and increased vehicular queuing. The most common example is the physical use of roads by vehicles. When traffic demand is great enough that the interaction between
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An Alternative Retail Pricing Policy for Petroleum Products: A Case Study of Gasoline and High Speed Diesel in Thailand Thiraphong Vikitset School of Development Economics National Institute of Development Administration 118 Seri Thai Road‚ Bangkapi District‚ Bangkok 10240‚ Thailand E-mail: thiraphongv@yahoo.com. 2 Abstract This article examines the retail pricing policy of gasoline and high speed diesel in Thailand. The pricing policy of these two products is characterized by cross price
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CASE #3 Wal-Mart on Trial on ’Predatory Pricing’ Charges ------------------------------------------------- Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and its pricing practices went on trial in an Arkansas courtroom‚ where three independent pharmacies are trying to prove that the nation’s largest retailer sold merchandise below its costs in an effort to drive competitors out of business. The retail druggists in Conway‚ Ark.‚ north of Little Rock‚ contend that their business suffered from Wal-Mart’s "predatory prices"
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Pricing Introduction Peter Drucker‚ who is widely regarded as the greatest management thinkers of our time once said: “Because the purpose of business is to create a customer‚ the business enterprise has two–and only two–basic functions: marketing and innovation. Marketing and innovation produce results; all the rest are costs. Marketing is the distinguishing‚ unique function of the business.” Looking at the problems faced by most businesses today‚ it seems obvious that Drucker was right when he
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Wealth Transfers among and between Bond Issues in Mergers and Acquisitions: Evidence from Bond Tender Offers Matthew T. Billett* and Ke Yang ** March 2011 Abstract: We explore the wealth effects of mergers and acquisitions to bondholders at the bond issue level using a sample of mergers and acquisitions that involve a tender offer for one or more of the target or acquiring firms’ bond issues. Over the period 2000-2008 such tender offers occur in 32% of the mergers and acquisitions involving targets
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Industrial Engineering Heat Transfer Lab report Free & Forced Convection Heat Transfer Mahmood Mohsin AL-Khusaibi 85135 Amur Sultan Al-Habsi 86260 Rashid Nasser Al Shabibi 85362 Aim: The objective of this experiment to investigate the use of extended surface to improve heat transfer through surfaces. In addition‚ another target is to demonstrate the effect of the fluid speed on the heat transfer by convection. Introduction: Heat transfer by convection is one of three
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An Empirical Investigation of Arbitrage Pricing Theory: A case Zimbabwe Petros Jecheche University of Zimbabwe ABSTRACT This study investigates the Arbitrage Pricing Theory for the case of Zimbabwe using time series data from 1980 to 2005 within a vector autoregressive (VAR) framework. The Granger causality tests are conducted to establish the existence of causality among the variables like inflation‚ exchange rate and Gross Domestic Product. The VAR estimates as shown by the impulse response
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