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Estimating Demand for Dynamic Pricing in Electronic Markets [PDF]

, 2011
Economic theory suggests sellers can increase revenue through dynamic pricing; selling identical goods or services at different prices. However, such discrimination requires knowledge of the maximum price that each consumer is willing to pay; information ...
Cartlidge, J, Phelps, Steve
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Rethinking plastic waste: innovations in enzymatic breakdown of oil‐based polyesters and bioplastics

FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
Plastic pollution remains a critical environmental challenge, and current mechanical and chemical recycling methods are insufficient to achieve a fully circular economy. This review highlights recent breakthroughs in the enzymatic depolymerization of both oil‐derived polyesters and bioplastics, including high‐throughput protein engineering, de novo ...
Elena Rosini, Nicolò Antonelli, Gianluca Molla   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Affordable and equitable access to subsidised outpatient medicines? Analysis of co-payments under the Additional Drug Package in Kyrgyzstan

International Journal for Equity in Health, 2019
Background Out-of-pocket (OOP) payments can constitute a major barrier for affordable and equitable access to essential medicines. Household surveys in Kyrgyzstan pointed to a perceived growth in OOP payments for outpatient medicines, including those ...
Sabine Vogler, Peter Schneider, Guillaume Dedet, Hanne Bak Pedersen   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Analysis of cloud storage prices [PDF]

, 2012
Cloud storage is fast securing its role as a major repository for both consumers and business customers. Many companies now offer storage solutions, sometimes for free for limited amounts of capacity.
Mastroeni, Loretta, Naldi, Maurizio
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C2α‐carbanion‐protonating glutamate discloses tradeoffs between substrate accommodation and reaction rate in actinobacterial 2‐hydroxyacyl‐CoA lyase

FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
Enzymes of the 2‐hydroxyacyl‐CoA lyase group catalyze the condensation of formyl‐CoA with aldehydes or ketones. Thus, by structural adaptation of active sites, practically any pharmaceutically and industrially important 2‐hydroxyacid could be biotechnologically synthesized. Combining crystal structure analysis, active site mutations and kinetic assays,
Michael Zahn, Barbara Seroka, Ryszard Lazny, Zenon Lotowski, Thore Rohwerder   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Healthcare Resource Utilisation and Costs in Patients with Eosinophilic Granulomatosis with Polyangiitis: A Retrospective Analysis of German Insurance Claims Data

Rheumatology and Therapy
Introduction Evidence is limited on the clinical and economic burden of eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis (EGPA) in Europe. We evaluated EGPA healthcare resource utilisation (HCRU), days off work, and costs in Germany.
Paul Dolin, Anat Shavit, Jennifer Rowell, Chris Edmonds, Josefine Persson, Danuta Kielar, Keltie McDonald, Antje Mevius, Bernhard Hellmich, Stephanie Y. Chen   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

Do changes in the implied volatility of stock options predict future changes in CDS spreads? [PDF]

Seonmul yeongu
This study examines whether changes in the implied volatility of stock options have cross-sectional predictability for future changes in credit default swap (CDS) spreads in the Korean market. The major findings are as follows.
Changsoo Hong, Yuen Jung Park
doaj   +1 more source

Is it possible to incorporate quality into hospital pricing systems? [PDF]

, 2013
Australia has recently implemented an activity - based funding system for public hospitals. Policymakers and providers are keen to ensure that the price paid for health care services stimulates improvements in quality and safety , but some remain scept ...
Anne-Marie Boxall, Carol Loggie, Janet Sansoni, Kathy Eagar   +3 more
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​Did a Non‐Medical Biosimilar Switching Policy Cause an Increase in Non‐Biologic/Biosimilar Health Care Resource Utilization or Cost in Patients With Inflammatory Arthritis?

Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Objective This study aimed to evaluate the impact of a series of policies that mandated switching patients with inflammatory arthritis (IA) from an originator biologic to a biosimilar in British Columbia, Canada, on health care resource use and cost.
HaoHung Dang, Sandra Blitz, Nick Bansback, Michael Law, Mark Harrison   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Fractional constant elasticity of variance model

, 2006
This paper develops a European option pricing formula for fractional market models. Although there exist option pricing results for a fractional Black-Scholes model, they are established without accounting for stochastic volatility.
Chan, Ngai Hang, Ng, Chi Tim
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