Office is a necessary workplace for corporate business operation in current commercial market, the maturity of office market development reflects the economy and commercial development status in different markets. The application of transacted office rental and vacancy rate as a primary data is relatively rare in pervious domestic literatures due to the difficultly of primary data collection. Therefore, the study of the correlation between office rental and vacancy rate by using primary data analysis is one of the research focus. Moreover, the lack of land supply for office development in Taipei CBD led to a rapid growth for suburban technology parks in the past decade. Corporate occupiers may relocate from the CBD to suburban technology parks due to competitive rental, improved public transportation network and information technology infrastructure. Therefore, the study of the correlation between suburban technology parks¡¦ office new supply and CBD Grade A office vacancy rate is another research focus in this thesis. The scope of study covers the Taipei CBD office submarkets and Neihu Technology Park and Nankang Software Park within suburban of Taipei City. The research method includes a literature review, market overview of CBD and suburban technology parks and empirical analysis of research data. By using correlation coefficient and ordinary least squares methods to analyze the factors, there are two finding revealed in the empirical results. Firstly, the empirical results revealed that the relationship between Taipei CBD Grade A office rental and vacancy rate is negative. Rental drop while vacancy increasing and oppositely rental increase while vacancy rate decline. The grade A rental may drop NT$27.16 per ping per month when Grade A vacancy rate increase 1%. Secondly, the empirical results revealed that the relationship between suburban technology parks¡¦ office new supply and CBD Grade A office vacancy rate is positive. The Grade A office vacancy rate may increase 1.53% when suburban technology parks increase 10,000 pings office new supply. NT$27.16 per ping per month when grade A vacancy rate increase 1%. It would be helpful for making business decisions on office leasing, real estate development and property investment if corporate occupiers, real estate developer and investor have more knowledge on office market vacancy rate and new supply information.

According to the statistic of Ministry of internal affair, the single-parent families of Taiwan have increased substantially, where the traditional family structure are gradually being altered. The most significant change of the single parent families are that in traditional families, male tend to supply the income sources. A survey, based on the status-quo of single-parent families in Taiwan during 2001, indicates that those single parent families require social welfare which includes economic support, consultation, education of children, employment, residential, and etc. . Other surveys have further their studies on the residency of the single parent families from different prospects, that includes the problem of housing ownership, the need for residential welfare, living experience and status quos. Others studies, specifically based on the single-parent families housing of the city area, indicate that it is essential to pay more attention on the residential problems and difficulties. In addition, the above mentioned studies have found that the percent of female single parent families to own housing is lower than that of the male single parent families. This result shows that the tendency for the single female parent families to rent for residence in the city. Therefore, this study will be based on the single female parent families of the Kaohsiung city area, hoping to understand the residential problems and situations that are associated with the single female parents and subsequently, find whether rental residential welfares are required. This study discovered, the variables which affect single female parents renting behaviors are rents and children for that these two variables will significantly affect other variables, such as location, sharing renting, or group residence. As a result, besides cheap rent, others factors such as residential discrimination, stable environment, rental information, free moving assistance, housing repair are welfare that the single female parents are some of the items these families need. In addition, an observation specifically on the housing welfare proposition provided by the government found that there are room for improvement, for instance the two year living constraint, location of the houses are not suitable, and ceiling on rent subsidies. As a result, this study is hoping that government and associated agencies could think more dynamic when it comes to housing welfare policies.

Thesis (M.A.)--Ball State University, 2009. / Title from PDF t.p. (viewed on Mar. 01, 2010). Creative project (M.A.), 3 hrs. Includes bibliographical references (p. [21]).

In this dissertation, we show how the firm can improve its revenue and competitiveness through segmenting the market by exploring consumer heterogeneity. In the first essay, we show that asymmetric assortment breadth among two competing retailers can emerge as an equilibrium when consumers differ in their prior knowledge about their product preferences and their shopping costs. Under this equilibrium, the full line retailer expands the market demand by attracting the uninformed consumers with large shopping costs and the single product retailer passes on the savings from a streamlined assortment to the informed consumers by setting a lower price. Therefore, the two retailers soften the competition between them and both achieve higher profits. In the second essay, we consider a setting in which consumers experience distinct instances of need for a durable product at random intervals and derive random amount of utility from each instance. Consumers are differentiated according to the frequency with which they experience instances of need. For a firm that provides a durable product to such a market, we consider the implications of selling versus renting on a per-usage basis. Selling minimizes transaction costs, but may result in inefficient utilization of units that are produced. Alternatively, per-usage rentals allow more utility to be generated per unit of product that is produced. Focusing on these trade-offs, we identify conditions under which the firm should sell, offer per-usage rentals, or offer a combination of the two. In the third essay, we continue to use the durable good framework to study how various forms of government subsidy programs shift consumer's demand patterns and thus generate different magnitude of additional savings in resource consumption. We give the conditions under which each type of cash rebate programs does the best in generating resource savings per dollar spent. / text

This study presents a hedonic model for off-campus student housing, using a semi-logarithmic model, with the natural log of unit rent as the dependent variable. Implicit values for select structural and locational characteristics were estimated, with a special emphasis on the variable of proximity to campus. Variable data for off-campus student housing in six university markets was collected. The results indicate a nonlinear relationship between rent and distance from the academic center of campus. Within one mile of campus, there is a significant premium for proximity, but between one and four miles from campus, the marginal value levels off before decreasing again beyond the four mile mark. The premium for being within one mile of campus ranged from 16.3% to 17%, and the discount for being outside four miles from campus equaled 13%. Other noteworthy characteristics and coefficients include the marginal value of an additional bedroom with a positive coefficient of roughly 21% and the inclusion of internet and cable with a premium of 12.4% to 15%. / Department of Family and Consumer Sciences

Thesis (M.U.R.P. )--University of Adelaide, 1980. / "B. Coates 1979" --Cover. Bibliography: p. 128-132.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 2004. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 344-362).

Thesis (M. Hous. M.)--University of Hong Kong, 1998. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 87-91).

Thesis (M.B.A.)--University of Hong Kong, 1998. / Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1992. / Vita. Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 117-123). Also available via the Internet.