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A profitability index for alternative research projects
Omega, 1976Abstract Success in research is supposed to be achieved by success in just one of a number of alternative research projects. The problem is investigated on how to allocate research effort to minimise the expected cost to success. The optimal strategy is determined by a profitability index attached to each project.
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A use for the 'index of profitability'
Building Services Engineering Research and Technology, 1988The concept of 'index of profitability', used to identify optimal investment options, is developed to provide a test for the optimal amount of investment on each option.
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A Profit Index for Assessing the Benefits of Process Control
Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, 2007In industrial processes, the potential benefit that arises from improved control is assessed before the installation of a new control strategy. Estimating the economic benefit motivates the investment in a new control system and minimizes the risk of the new technology not living up to its promises.
Ian K. Craig +3 more
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An aggregate index for the analysis of productivity and profitability
Omega, 1975Abstract Many measures have been devised for assessing economic performance in industry and business, but there is no systematic formula for integrating productivity and profitability, the effect of scale of production and the effect of technical change.
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The Profit in Planned Prices Should Be Formulated in Accordance with a Composite Profit Index
Chinese Economic Studies, 1984Issue no. 4 of Economic Research (1979) published our article "Some Problems in the Formation of Socialist Planned Prices," in which we expressed the view that there were advantages but also disadvantages to formulating the planned price according to the average wage profit rate, the average cost profit rate, and the average capital profit rate of the ...
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Including lameness and mastitis in a profit index for dairy cattle
Animal Science, 2005The objective of this work was to establish economic values (EVs) of mastitis and lameness in order to enhance the current UK dairy profit index (£PLI) by including these health traits. The EVs of traits currently in £PLI were also re-evaluated to account for changes in costs/returns over time and to determine their sensitivity to changes in some of ...
Susan Brotherstone +2 more
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Arbitrage Strategy Based on Arbitrage Profitability Index
2009 First International Workshop on Education Technology and Computer Science, 2009Concerning the arbitrage strategies to the multiple-period case, there is still far little research works. In this short note, arbitrage size and arbitrage profitability index (API) for a class of multi-period arbitrages are introduced. Then the arbitrage strategy based on the API is investigated and applied to the treasury bonds arbitrage.
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Profitable index on tourism promotion on Madeira: A financial model
2014As the resources for promotion are limited, it is important to create and implement a model to evaluate a priori the investments made and continuously monitor the return obtained. Concerning the valuation of the investments made, there is no evidence that, at a regional level, in Madeira, this politics actually exists as a previous valuation that can ...
Maria Manuela M.S. Sarmento Coelho +1 more
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On the Design of Profitable Index Based on the Mechanism of Random Tradings
2020Designing profitable trading strategies is an issue of interest to many experts and scholars. There are thousands of strategies in financial markets, and almost all of them can be divided into two types: momentum-type and contrarian-type. However, there is no formal way to determine which type of strategies are suitable for each stock.
Jia-Hao Syu +3 more
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Profitability and diversification benefits of momentum strategies on commodity index futures
International Journal of Accounting and Finance, 2011Profitability and Diversification Benefits of Momentum Strategies on Commodity Index ...
Jussi Nikkinen +3 more
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