Price discrimination has been widely discussed in economics. Scholars have discussed perceived fairness in the direct exchange perspective, sellers and buyers. However, there are few studies related price discrimination and its impact on consumers¡¦ psychology. Therefore, this paper examines the influence of price discrimination on consumers¡¦ perceived unfairness and their purchase intention as well as the effect of discount depth and discount framing in consumer¡¦s perspective. Results obtained from 402 questionnaires collected in Taiwan indicate that (1) price discrimination has influence on consumers¡¦ perceived (un)fairness; (2) discount depths moderate the impact of price discrimination on consumers¡¦ perception of unfairness; (3) advantaged inequality has influence on consumers¡¦ purchase intention; (4) discount framing doesn¡¦t have influence on either consumers¡¦ perceived unfairness or their purchase intention.

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A below market assumable mortgage may imply a discount in the financing costs of prospective property buyers. Sellers may capitalize any discount value into their asking price for the property. Residential properties sold with below market assumption financing may therefore include a capitalized discount in their selling price. This study empirically tests the hypothesis that below market assumption financed residential properties include a capitalized discount in their observed selling price and obtains both a parametric and nonparametric estimate of the average discount capitalization rate. The hypothesis is tested on a large-scale sample of residential condominium sales that occurred in Vancouver over the 13 year period from 1974 to 1986. Both the hedonic pricing and matched pairs methodologies are employed to control for non-financial differences among the sampled transactions. The theoretical value of assumption financing discounts is measured using a modified Cash Equivalent Adjustment model. This study concludes that Vancouver condominiums sold with discount assumption financing do, on average, include a capitalized discount in their selling price. The hedonic price estimate of the average discount capitalization rate is approximately 75 percent of the modified Cash Equivalent discount value; the matched pairs estimate is approximately 50 percent of the modified Cash Equivalent discount value. The average discount capitalization rate appears to be stable across periods of high and moderate inflation. / Business, Sauder School of / Graduate

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Aim of the thesis is the analysis and design of parts Discount portal. Content of the work consists of two main parts, theoretical and practical. The theoretical part describes the analysis of Discount portal. Further work describes the behavior of discount portals and finally discusses the competitive discount aggregators and portals. The work is carried out detailed SWOT analysis portal, and also assessed the economic aspects and benefits of work. The practical part deals by itself parts Parts Discount website, its description and methodology of technology.

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Zugl.: Mainz, Universiẗat, Diss., 2000.

This paper deals with the problem of shipping multiple commodities from a single vendor to a single buyer. Each commodity is assumed to be constantly consumed at the buyer, and periodically replenished from the vendor. Furthermore, these replenishments are restricted to happen at discrete time instants, e.g., a certain time of the day or a certain day of the week. At any such time instant, transportation cost depends on the shipment quantity according to certain discount scheme. Specifically, we consider two transportation quantity discount schemes: LTL (less-than-truckload) incremental discount and TL (truckload) discount. For each case, we develop MIP (mixed integer programming) mathematical model whose objective is to make an integrated replenishment and transportation decision such that the total system cost is minimized. We also derive optimal solution properties and give numerical studies to investigate the problem. / Singapore-MIT Alliance (SMA)

In the first chapter of this dissertation, I hypothesize that several non-tax-driven benefits of debt induce REITs managers to issue debt despite no apparent tax-driven benefit. Several methodologies and tests applied in capital structure literature are introduced to the literature of REITs capital structure. First, I investigate how the market prices leverage in absence of tax-deductibility benefit. Then, I diagnose the relative importance of several non-tax-driven benefits of leverage in deriving the capital structure decisions of REITs. Third, I conduct a thought investment experiment with debt-restricted vs. non-restricted REITs portfolios. I find weak evidence that leverage, by itself, creates value. Nevertheless, I find strong evidence that during financial crisis debt-restricted REITs perform better than non-restricted ones. Also I find evidence that lends support to the pecking order story of leverage. I conclude that REITs managers issue debt mainly to avoid issuing equity and to maximize wealth of existing shareholders. The second chapter addresses corporate diversification discount. I present and test a hypothesis that diversifiers exchange immediate diversification discount with future value gain attributed to unanticipated financial and strategic advantages of diversification. Two implications of this hypothesis are tested in this dissertation. First, the initial diversification discount found in static methodologies should be attenuated in a dynamic analysis. Second, diversifier's value evolution patterns are driven by the materialization of certain financial and strategic efficiencies. The overall results indicate that there is value recovery over time. Diversifiers' performance and value evolution is dynamically linked to synchronous improvements in market power, internal capital market activities, and cost efficiencies. Further, consistent with current evidence in diversification literature, related diversifiers outperform unrelated diversifiers. Moreover, related diversifiers witness faster value recovery relative to unrelated diversifiers.