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Vertical Integration and Vertical Divestiture in the U.S. Petroleum Industry
This paper demonstrates that vertical integration in the U.S. petroleum industry represents a competitive response to the disabilities associated with market contracting. If intermediate product markets could operate, according to the…
Welfare Effects of Changes in the Variability of Prices and of Outputs
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Wives' Labor Force Behavior and Family Consumption Patterns
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Algorithms for Minimizing Total Cost, Bottleneck Time and Bottleneck Shipment in Transportation Problems
We consider the transportation problem of determining nonnegative shipments from a set of m warehouses with given availabilities to a set of n markets with given requirements. Three objectives are defined for each solution: (i) total cost TC (ii…
Amount of Information as a Determinant of Consumer Behavior Towards New Products
Consumer behavior towards a new product, the Gillette TRAC II twin blade razor, was studied at the time of its product introduction, as a function of two levels of information regarding the new product. It was found that the proportion of…
An Alternate Interpretation of the Linear Learning Model of Brand Choice
An Exponential Smoothing Model (ESM) of brand choice is presented which possesses a mathematical structure very similar to that of the Linear Learning Model (LLM) of brand choice. While the LLM, is posited on adaptive learning (purchase event…
An Empirical Study of Financial Judgment Models: An Individual and Group Analysis
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An Experiment in Computing the Expected Discounted Return in a Finite Markov Chain
An experiment with a certain transformation, leading to a new iterative method, was carried out with the intent of speeding the computation of the infinite horizon expected discounted return in a finite Markov chain. At first the method seemed…
An Experimental Study of the Judgment Element in Disclosure Decisions
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Analysis of Implied Risk-Taking Behavior Under a Goal-Based Incentive Scheme
The purpose of this paper is an analysis of how an incentive scheme and the subordinates risk preference interact to determine the implied risk preference criterion which are essentially used in arriving at a decision under uncertainty in a…
Analysis of Linear Programs By Sequential Projection
We apply what we call sequential projection to reformulate a block triangular linear program as a recursive optimization problem. We approximate the return function at each stage of the recursion by using either inner or outer linearization, and…
A Bayesian Approach to the Production of Information and Learning By Doing
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Behavioral Accounting Research: Pathologies, Paradigms and Prescriptions
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Capital Market Equilibrium with Marketability Restrictions
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A Class of Methods for Linear Programming
A class of methods is presented for solving standard linear programing problems. Like the simplex method, these methods move from one feasible solution to another at each iteration, improving the objective function as they go. Each such…
A Consumer Preference Approach to the Planning of Rural Primary Health Care Facilities
The problem of planning for the expansion of a rural primary health care delivery system is conceptualized as determining the set of facilities to be added to an existing system so as to maximize the incremental benefit to the community subject…
Cost Operator Algorithms for the Transportation Problem
A primal transportation algorithm is devised via post-optimization on the costs of a modified problem. The procedure involves altering the costs corresponding to the basic cells of the initial (primal feasible) solution so that it is dual…
Design and Implementation of Decision Support Systems: Some Implications of a Recent Study
This paper is an evaluation and critique of the Decision Support System (DSS) design and implementation methodology proposed by Gerrity (1970, 1971). A recent study (Stabell, 1974) of a system for portfolio management which was produced using…
Estimating Computational Effort for Linear Programming Algorithms
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