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... Five: Business Plans, Financing, and Legal and Tax Matters Chapter 15 Restaurant Business and Marketing Plans Chapter 16 Financing and Leasing Chapter 17 Legal and Tax Matters AIDS TO FACILITATE LEARNING ... Gift Card and Loyalty Programs 411 Guest Services and Web Sites 412 Restaurant Management Alert Systems Summary Part Five Chapter 15 412 413 Business Plans, Financing, and Legal and Tax Matters ... development; service and xiv ■ Preface guest relations; technology; business and marketing plans; financing and leasing; and legal and tax matters The Restaurant assumes no specific knowledge other than...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 08:20

... 60 international studies of passenger demand TRL et al (2004) – local and suburban 33 UK studies and 11 Non UK studies of bus fare elasticities 35 UK and 20 Non UK rail fare elasticities BACKGROUND: ... Type of data and sample size Mode and cost numeraire Periodicity (dynamic, static, indeterminate), time period, lag structure Level of aggregation and model type Distance, region and type of flow ... MOTIVATIONS • Why Review? Price elasticities are important for policy and forecasting Benchmarking and new insights Several previous reviews and update needed • Why Quantify Relationships (Meta-Analysis)?...

Ngày tải lên: 27/11/2015, 12:40

... use and patterns of behavior, such as frequency of showering and washing, were different in each season: 53L, 63L, and 51L in spring and fall, summer, and winter, respectively Thus, the demand ... use in Beijing is 220L——53L, 63L, and 51L in spring and fall, summer, and winter, respectively Thus, water demand in summer is 1.2 times that of the winter demand This seasonal tendency is consistent ... household size d (L/man/day) It is assumed that spring and summer were three months (90 days) each, and fall and winter two months (60 days) and four months (120 days), respectively Annual water...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 10:17

... Aggregate Demand • Aggregate Demand - The relationship between the quantity of aggregate output demanded and the price level when all other variables are held ... Deriving the Aggregate Demand Curve • Changes in the price level induce changes in the aggregate output demanded and hence movement along the AD curve (points A, B, and C in Figure 24-1) • In ... changes in aggregate spending and thus shifts the AD curve Aggregate Demand Curve Behaviour of Aggregate Demand’s Component Parts YAD = C + I + G + NX The aggregate demand curve is downward sloping...

Ngày tải lên: 05/01/2014, 17:01

... package and that this feeds into the short run dynamics of wages.A Employers’ taxes are a substitute for direct taxes, and in the long run we assume the incidence of the tax does not matter, and ... tax- brackets (23 and 33 per cent) for taxes on personal income and the gradual reduction of IRAP, the regional tax on business; reduction of VAT on tourism activities, as in France; exemption from taxation ... measures to raise tax compliance after five years of tax amnesties, higher and more uniform taxation on the return to financial assets and an explicit commitment to the Stability and Growth Pact...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 06:20

... above.6 • Main rivers and lakes: Within the landscape rivers and lakes have two different functions On one hand they are natural barriers separating landscapes, and on the other hand they can serve ... Land cover The land cover data was provided by the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry (MAF) and represents the land cover in 2002 The dataset is part of a forest cover and land use changes ... SPOT satellite images at 1:50’000 and 1:100’000 scales and by conducting forest and land use mapping and field verification It distinguishes 24 different types of land cover, of which ten represent...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 11:20

... the sand and then transfer the hot sand to the pyrolysis vessel Such an option has advantages but also is more challenging because of solids transport and temperature control (overheating of sand ... movement of sand and particles through the system causes abrasion of this char layer but mostly at the elbows and bends where there is more forceful interaction between the particles and sand The ... and energy balances were developed using ASPEN Plus® 12.1 and an economic analysis was conducted based on ASPEN ICARUS Questimate® 11.1 and standard NREL economic protocols 6.1 Design Basis and...

Ngày tải lên: 01/04/2014, 00:20

... Constructs A and B Meshing and material properties ANSYS Workbench 10.0 was used to generate meshes For Construct A, the number of nodes and elements was 41098 and 29436 (Modular) and 33270 and 23744 ... nodes and elements was 52121 and 39423 (Modular) and 61577 and 45847 (Monoblock) Body elements included 10-node quadratic tetrahedrons for cortical bone, cancellous bone, and implants, and a ... Modular and Monoblock implants were developed, and strain and stress maps were generated for two constructs, A and B Construct A modeled a hip implant alone under axial forces of 700 and 2000...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 04:20

... function of quantity demanded and other variables yields the “inverse demand curve” Pi D P Qi ; y/ Standard graphs of an individual’s demand curve plot the quantity demanded of the good at each ... ideal demand system (NIDS) 1.1 Demand Functions and Demand Elasticities making €1bn and everyone else making €10,000, then sales of €15,000 cars would be at most 1,000 On the other hand, the ... curvature of the demand curve will determine the elasticity and therefore the impact of a change in price on quantity demanded 1.1.3.1 Linear Demand The linear demand is the simplest demand specification...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 10:20

... indicates prices of inputs L, K, and F , u is an unobserved cost efficiency parameter, and ˛ and a are cost and technology parameters respectively Given input prices and a production function, the ... costs as expand production keeping output of each good in proportion Source: Authors’ rendition of a multiproduct cost function provided by Evans and Heckman (1984a,b) and Bailey and Friedlander (1982) ... most practitioners and academics believed and believe that the proportions of debt and equity matter and so for fifty years corporate finance has studied violations of Modigliani and Miller’s assumptions,...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 10:20

... market prices and quantities will require data on equilibrium prices and quantities in that market as dependent variables and then observed demand and supply shifters (perhaps GDP and cost data ... Demand Q Figure 2.5 Price and quantity data: The intersection of a supply and a demand curve generates our data point (Qi ; Pi ) P S1 S2 S3 D4 D3 D1 D2 Q Figure 2.6 Indicative supply and demand ... in Fisher (1980, 1986) and Finkelstein and Levenbach (1983) For more general econometrics texts, see, for example, Greene (2007) and Wooldridge (2007) And for an advanced and more technical but...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 10:20

... the prices depend on the intercepts of the demand equations (a1 and a2 ), the own-price effects (b11 and b22 ), and the cross-price effects (b12 and b21 ) They also depend on the cost of both ... consider any two normal goods, say cars and holidays When the economy is good we will tend to see high demand, and hence high prices, for both cars and holidays and yet, of course, we would not want ... including prices, product characteristics, and market shares to estimate aggregate market demand equations, and hence market elasticities of demand and substitution patterns Or else we can use...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 10:20

... dbSm where S is the size of the market, a and b are demand parameters, and c and d are the cost parameters The demand and costs parameters are unobserved and their effect is therefore included in ... between Market Structure and Price And the point to note is that both p and N are correlated with both demand and costs Thus the unobserved components of both demand and costs will both emerge ... See also http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi /business/ 600488.stm and http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/ sci/tech/159742.stm and www.nytimes.com/2000/01/11 /business/ microsoft -and- caldera-settle-antitrustsuit.html...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 10:20

... (1996), and Klepper and Simons (2000), and in the strategy literature see Markides and Geroski (2005) and McGahan (2004) 286 Identification of Conduct outcomes in terms of prices, output, and profits—has ... such as advertising and by the structural parameters of the market, particularly the nature of demand and the nature of technology which affects costs If the market demand and cost structure are ... industry concentration and firm profits There can be many lines of business per firm and the data reveal firms with as many as 47 different lines of business The average is lines of business per firm A...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 10:20

... the extent to which any tax would be absorbed by suppliers To so, and hence understand the incidence and effects of the tax we must be able to separately identify demand and supply As we saw in ... the pricing and demand equations and the conduct parameter remains that we can find (i) a supply shifter that allows us to identify the demand curve, the parameter ˛1 , and (ii) a demand shifter ... one could use for identification are changes in demand In this section and the next we consider respectively demand shifts and demand rotations and in particular whether such data variation will...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 10:20

... choice model of demand but ultimately his demand function takes the form, Ä Pj Pi Pi Ph qi D ı ; xj xi xi x h where P and x stand for price and quality of the product and h, i , and j are indicators ... p/: Van Dijk and Verboven’s paper also provides a very helpful discussion on the legal framework applying in Europe and the United States regarding the legal standings of individual and firms directly ... matrix C which come from the existence of demand and cost shifters Demand shifters only affect prices through a change in the quantities demanded and not independently affect the pricing equation...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 10:20

... (pricing) and demand equation Doing so requires us to have multiple observations on each product’s demand and pricing intersection, perhaps using data variation over time from each product (demand and ... firm and market demand for understanding competition For example, we have seen that demand is important in determining firm behavior such as pricing decisions and we have also seen that demand ... these supply (pricing) and demand equations must be solved numerically in order to calculate equilibrium prices for given values of the demand- and cost-side parameters and data The data used...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 10:20

... Mathewson and Winter (1987), Rasmusen et al (1991), Bernheim and Whinston (1998), Segal and Whinston (2000), and Simpson and Wickelgren (2007) 516 10 Quantitative Assessment of Vertical Restraints and ... benefit from the increase in the demand of the initial product and also the tied product In the case of metering and price discrimination, the outcome is less clear and will vary across customers ... link between the valuations of the tied and tying products, and the nature of competition in the tied market (see also Bakos and Brynjolfsson 1998; Carlton and Waldman 2002) Whinston (1990) illustrates...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 10:20

... Hurwicz, L., and H Uzawa 1971 On the integrability of demand functions In Preferences, Utility and Demand (ed J Chipman, L Hurwicz, M Richter, and H Sonnenschein) New York: Harcourt Imbens, G., and J ... Jullien, B., and P Rey 2008 Resale price maintenance and collusion RAND Journal of Economics 38:983–1001 Just, R., and W Chern 1980 Tomatoes, technology and oligopsony Bell Journal of Economics and Management ... differentiation RAND Journal of Economics 25:242–62 Berry, S., and P Reiss 2007 Empirical models of entry and market structure In Handbook of Industrial Organization, volume Amsterdam: North-Holland Berry,...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 10:20

... indicates prices of inputs L, K, and F , u is an unobserved cost efficiency parameter, and ˛ and a are cost and technology parameters respectively Given input prices and a production function, the ... costs as expand production keeping output of each good in proportion Source: Authors’ rendition of a multiproduct cost function provided by Evans and Heckman (1984a,b) and Bailey and Friedlander (1982) ... most practitioners and academics believed and believe that the proportions of debt and equity matter and so for fifty years corporate finance has studied violations of Modigliani and Miller’s assumptions,...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 14:20