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Defining Your Own Sustainable Future, Jacob Johnsen
Defining Your Own Sustainable Future, Jacob Johnsen
Jacob Johnsen, MSc
How do you create – and maintain – an attractive service portfolio, and how to compete in a shifting environment? In our changing world, survival is not a question of size, speed or coverage. You must be adaptive. Posts can find out where to adapt, by examining the changes in customer behaviour, changing demands and technological achievements. Volumes are shifting from letters to packets, and so far, courier companies have taken market share from posts. Jacob Johnsen looks at the current changes and gives some guidelines on how to set up pointers for an ever-changing direction.
The Potentials And Challenges Of Transitioning The U.S.-E.U. Safe Harbor Program From A Hybrid System Of Authority To A Pure Non-State Market Driven (Nsmd) System Of Authority:, Sarah Brennan Mpa
Sarah Brennan
All-Units Discounts As A Partial Foreclosure Device, Yong Chao, Guofu Tan
All-Units Discounts As A Partial Foreclosure Device, Yong Chao, Guofu Tan
Yong Chao
All-units discounts (AUD) are pricing schemes that lower a buyer’s marginal price on every unit purchased when the buyer’s purchase exceeds or is equal to a pre-specified threshold. The AUD and related conditional rebates are commonly used in both final-goods and intermediate-goods markets. Although the existing literature has thus far focused on interpreting the AUD as a price discrimination tool, investment incentive program, or rent-shifting instrument, the antitrust concerns on the AUD and related conditional rebates are often their plausible exclusionary effects.
In this article, we investigate strategic effects of volume-threshold based AUD used by a dominant firm in the …