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This paper proposes a demand-side pricing strategy to purchase regulation service. The demand-side regulation service has the advantage of lower cost and faster response to reduce the utility company's cost comparing with the traditional automatic generation control (AGC). Thus, it is necessary for the utility company to make a tradeoff between the demand-side regulation and the AGC to minimize the...
Crowdfunding is developing as a novel and popular transaction method, which can largely improve the efficiency of raising initial funds and selling innovative products. In this paper, we explore the optimal pricing strategies of the reward-based crowdfunding creator when substitutes exist. First, considering the characteristics of reward-based crowdfunding, we present four pricing strategies when...
IPO (Initial Public Offerings) pricing is a systematic and complicated task that directly determines whether the capital market is able to function in a healthy way. As China's stock market goes through ups and downs, China Securities Regulatory Commission generally adopts a positive strategy. Therefore, to weaken the policy factors, 48 cases of IPO companies dated from January 2014 to February 2014...
Interruptible load management is an important part of demand side management in the power market. Interruptible load management by the power companies and users will be interrupted to sign the contract. The implementation of the interrupt load management needs to solve the problem of determining the outage load contract model, which can interrupt load pricing, and participate in the market operation...
FPGA based product development companies need third party IP cores to complete the product design time effectively and cost effectively. The one-time payment upfront licensing of IP cores is impractical for FPGA based products, which does not benefit either IP core vendors or product engineering companies. There is a need for good competitive pricing scheme which benefit product development companies...
IPO secondary offerings have been widely concerned by people. The purpose of this paper is to study the effect of IPO secondary offerings on IPO underpricing in China's capital market. The data about IPO secondary offerings and IPO underpricing in the Shanghai and Shenzhen A stock market listed companies from December 2013 to April 2016 are used for empirical analysis. The study finds that the IPO...
Demand-side management (DSM) is an important theme in studies of the Smart Grid and offers the possibility of leveling power consumption with its attendant benefits of reducing capital expenses. This paper develops an algorithmic mechanism that reduces peak total power consumption and encourages prosocial behavior, such as expressing flexibility in one's power consumption and reporting preferences...
Majority of distribution tariffs in the world, price electricity through traditional averaging to avoid practical difficulties associated with advanced pricing strategies. This paper analyzes allocation of infrastructure cost, in a more absolute, practical and a cost-reflecting manner. It derives a time based price (TBP) per unit of energy from incremental cost of energy and allocates fixed cost to...
Digital content industry, listed as China's “key cultural industries”, has maintained high-speed growth in recent years. However, challenges still remain since piracy has become obstacles in long-term sustainable development. A firm may employ different pricing and investing policies with differentiated environmental conditions to protect intellectual property, increase legitimate sales and maximize...
From the perspective of the credit risk, this paper discusses the factors affecting credit spreads of different credit risk corporate bonds. The study chooses the credit rating as the standard to measure the credit risk of corporate bonds. The sample of daily data covers the period from August 2013 to December 2015 and we use Merton model to analyze the different influencing factors. The empirical...
In product development, matrix analysis chart is often used for strategic correlation analysis research. For example, quality function deployment is used to carry out product manufacturing process quality control and the optimal part combination analysis; 2-dimensional image scale is frequently used for product form analysis or product form salience and purchase intention, and consumer preference...
In the past, once a new product appearing in the market, consumers first check if the price is reasonable, if it is within their budget, if the product's functions meet their requirement, and if the appearance of the product caters to their preferences, etc. In fact, in addition to the corporate's brand image, the price, functionality and appearance will be the key success factors of product sales...
As a vital part of the Smart Grid concept, load participation has been widely accepted and applied by power industries. As an effective tool to improve reliability, stability, and financial efficiency of the power grids, Demand response (DR) has brought numerous financial and technical benefits to power systems. As one of the price-based DR programs with less control costs, the Time-of-Use (TOU) program...
The idea of controlling the demand side electrical consumption has led the dissemination of demand response applications under smart grid concept. Especially residential demand response applications have been widely adopted and many studies have been conducted in the world. In this study general information about demand response is given and demand response research in the world and in Turkey is summarized...
In this paper, we propose a game theoretical analysis of supply chain configurations for two manufacturers and two retailers. The supply chain configuration is the structure of the leader-follower relationship in the decentralized decision making of pricing decisions for manufacturers and retailers. The effects of the supply chain configurations on the total profit are investigated. The closed-form...
In this paper, we investigate the effect of brand in market competition. Specifically, we propose a variant Hotelling model where companies and customers are represented by points in an Euclidean space, with axes being product features. N companies compete to maximize their own profits by optimally choosing their prices, while each customer in the market, when choosing sellers, considers the sum of...
In product development and planning, enterprises often adopt matrix chart for strategic study. For example, QFD for the quality control of product parts and their best combination of quality control analysis or image words for two-dimension image scale for product appearance analysis or product appealing, purchase intention for consumer's preference study. Furthermore, value evaluation by the weights...
A new scheme on dynamic pricing of electricity in a smart grid is proposed in this research article. Also the consumer's demand behavior and response is analyzed. With the smart grid it is possible to determine and communicate the real time prices of electricity like other market goods and evaluate the variation in demand. Utility can exploit the natural human response that is reduction in demand...
Electricity markets (EMs) are essentially systemsfor affecting the purchase and sale of energy using supply and demand to set the prices. Most existing EMs were designed without the notion that a significant part of the traded power could come from renewable energy sources and may require modifications to continue functioning effectively. Agent-based simulation tools are powerful computational tools...
Paid Search Advertisers have only very few options to influence the user's decision to click on one of their ads. The textual content of the creatives seems to be one important influencing factor beneath its position on the Search Engine Results Page (SERP) and the perceived relevance of the given ad to the present search query. In this study we perform a non reactive multivariate test that enables...
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