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Description:: This dissertation considers price indices in the context of two rapidly growing markets. The first is the emerging market for Internet Service Providers in the mid-1990s. The second is the emergence and growth of the DVD hardware market. In both, we examine indices ranging from the most rudimentary to quality...
Keyword:: price index, quality, Hedonic, growth, dvd, and internet service providers
Subject:: Managerial Economics and Strategy
Creator:: Gregory A Stranger
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 08/16/2018
Date Modified:: 08/16/2018
Date Created:: 2007-10-02
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Description:: The most important managerial criteria in supply chains are how to manage product, information and cash flows, and how to maximize profits by either increasing the revenue or decreasing the costs. Although the maximum benefits can be achieved if everyone follows the central planner's suggestions; unfortunately, the individual maximum profits...
Keyword:: quality, contract, supply chain, and equilibrium
Subject:: Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences
Creator:: Gary Huaite Chao
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 08/28/2018
Date Modified:: 08/28/2018
Date Created:: 2007-12-07
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Description:: While it is the ongoing growth in healthcare spending that has been making headlines, improving and maintaining healthcare quality is a critical goal of healthcare policy. In this dissertation I answer three questions relating to healthcare quality: does physician-hospital financial integration improves healthcare quality; how physician-hospital financial integration improves healthcare...
Keyword:: quality, healthcare, malpractice, and integration
Subject:: Economics
Creator:: Amy Rebecca Wagner
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 10/28/2018
Date Modified:: 10/28/2018
Date Created:: 2017-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation

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