scholarly journals Analysis of the Offering and Resale Prices on the Second-Hand Skidders Market

Forests ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (6) ◽  
pp. 729
Author(s):  
Mario Šporčić ◽  
Marijan Šušnjar ◽  
Zdravko Pandur ◽  
Marin Bačić ◽  
David Mijoč ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Data ◽  
Working Hours ◽  
European Market ◽  
High Price ◽  
Future Trends ◽  
Sale Price ◽  
Wood Extraction ◽  
Online Marketplaces ◽  
Resale Price ◽  
Small Forest

Skidders, as self-propelled machines designed to transport trees or parts of trees by trailing or dragging it from the woods to a landing area, are still extensively used as the main wood extraction equipment in most of the Europe and worldwide. The high price of new machines (and even higher for CTL technology) makes the second-hand skidder market very interesting and appealing, especially for small forest owners and forestry contractors. So, this paper reports on a survey of used skidders available for purchase on the European market. Up-to-date empirical data was gathered by the analysis of the offerings on the main online marketplaces, i.e., specialized websites. The study included skidder make and model, variation in their age, annual usage and resale prices. The survey identified a total of 163 second-hand skidders and the results pointed out the prevalence of small-size machines (<110 kW), the average annual use (after excluding 1 year old machines from calculation) of 863 hours per year and the average re-sale price of about 65,000 EUR. Skidders are most commonly re-sold at an age of 16 years and the calculated price models show that skidder age is a stronger predictor of their value, i.e., resale price, than the total machine working hours. In the concluding section, paper also includes some reflections on possible future trends and perspectives of skidding technology in forestry.

RESALE OF GREEN HOUSING COMPENSATES FOR ITS PREMIUM PRICING: AN EMPIRICAL STUDY OF CHINA

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 45-61
Author(s):  
Yongsheng Jiang ◽  
Yudong Xing ◽  
Dong Zhao ◽  
Ruilin Jiao
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Green Building ◽  
High Price ◽  
Price Premium ◽  
Policy Recommendations ◽  
Green Housing ◽  
Purchase Cost ◽  
Resale Price ◽  
Green Certification ◽  
Government Promotion

ABSTRACT Green housing reduces resource consumption and protects the ecological environment. Sustainable buildings and construction have gained increasing attention in the last decade. Many empirical studies have confirmed that green housing imposes a price premium at the presale stage. The high price could be a concern that prevents homebuyers from purchasing green buildings. However, there is a lack of empirical evidence on whether the premium pricing could be compensated for by the resale price. To address this gap, this study establishes a hedonic regression model to estimate the price premium of green housing at the resale stage. The results show that green housing certified with the Chinese Green Building Label (CGBL) offers a 6% price premium compared with non-green housing at the resale stage. The results also show that green housing with a higher level of green certification, e.g., the 3-star CGBL, provides a greater price premium at resale. The findings indicate that home-buyers can obtain financial compensation for the high cost when purchasing a green home. Our findings also indicate that the price premium for reselling a green home is not always enough to compensate for the purchase cost in different cities. Policy recommendations for government promotion of green housing are also discussed.

scholarly journals Current Challenges and Future Trends in Analytical Fragility and Vulnerability Modeling

2019 ◽  
Vol 35 (4) ◽  
pp. 1927-1952 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vitor Silva ◽  
Sinan Akkar ◽  
Jack Baker ◽  
Paolo Bazzurro ◽  
José Miguel Castro ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Ground Motion ◽  
Empirical Data ◽  
Current Practice ◽  
Earthquake Damage ◽  
Future Trends ◽  
Risk Estimates ◽  
Ground Motion Records ◽  
Vulnerability Functions ◽  
Selection Of

The lack of empirical data regarding earthquake damage or losses has propelled the development of dozens of analytical methodologies for the derivation of fragility and vulnerability functions. Each method will naturally have its strengths and weaknesses, which will consequently affect the associated risk estimates. With the purpose of sharing knowledge on vulnerability modeling, identifying shortcomings in the existing methods, and recommending improvements to the current practice, a group of vulnerability experts met in Pavia (Italy) in April 2017. Critical topics related to the selection of ground motion records, modeling of complex real structures through simplified approaches, propagation of aleatory and epistemic uncertainties, and validation of vulnerability results were discussed, and suggestions were proposed to improve the reliability and accuracy in vulnerability modeling.

Postscript: Future Trends in Working Hours

1985 ◽  
pp. 210-213
Author(s):  
Alastair Evans ◽  
Stephen Palmer
Keyword(s):  
Working Hours ◽  
Future Trends

scholarly journals Working hours – tracking the current and future trends

2021 ◽  
Vol 59 (5) ◽  
pp. 285-292
Author(s):  
Timo ANTTILA ◽  
Mikko HÄRMÄ ◽  
Tomi OINAS
Keyword(s):  
Working Hours ◽  
Future Trends

scholarly journals Marketing Margin Analysis and Profits of Pork Retailers in Traditional Markets of Gunungsitoli City

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Intan Putri Zebua ◽  
Edhy Mirwandhono ◽  
Tri Hesti Wahyuni ◽  
Yunilas ◽  
Hasnudi
Keyword(s):  
Working Hours ◽  
Marketing Channels ◽  
Sale Price ◽  
Channel One ◽  
Traditional Markets ◽  
Marketing Process ◽  
Traditional Market ◽  
Livestock Products ◽  
Marketing Margins ◽  
Margin Analysis

The demand for pork is related to the supply provided by the market, as well as the ability of farmers and marketing agencies to market livestock products to consumers. Traders plays an important role in determining the sale price of meat and meat offerings. Therefore, research is conducted to find out the marketing process and profit obtained by the final institution. This research was conducted in traditional market of Gunungsitoli City from April to May 2018. The method used in data collection is purposive sampling.In this study, traders who were sampled amounted to 16 people. Analysis includes marketing margins, farmers share, profit pork sharers traders. The results show that there are two marketing channels. Margin on channel two is smaller than channel one. Larger farmers share through two marketing channels is on channel one. Average profit of pork traders for one month per person is Rp.16.699.664,1. Capital factors, working hours, trading experience and the amount of labor affect the profits.

scholarly journals Exploring the factors impacting seller performance during online sales events on e-commerce marketplace in India

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 0-0
Keyword(s):  
Online Shopping ◽  
High Price ◽  
Limited Time ◽  
Product Selection ◽  
Online Sales ◽  
Online Marketplaces ◽  
Order Fulfilment ◽  
Time Periods ◽  
The Right ◽  
Significant Factors

The Indian ecommerce industry has been growing substantially because of changing mindset of the Indian customers and ease of shopping online. A large number of sellers had registered on online marketplaces so that the sellers could reach a larger pool of customers. The goal for sellers was towards increasing sales substantially with optimal efforts. Some sellers were able to accomplish this goal successfully, but a majority of the sellers struggled finding the right formula for success. Ecommerce websites conducted online shopping heavy discount sales events for limited time periods. The objective of this research was to understand the various factors that influenced and impacted the performance of sellers on Indian E-commerce websites during such events. A total of eleven interviews were conducted with Indian E-commerce sales experts. The data was thematically content analysed. Five most significant factors that helped gauge sellers’ performance were late shipment rate, poor order fulfilment rate, limited product selection, high price and low glance views.

scholarly journals Pricing and inventory control decisions in the stochastic hybrid production systems with multiple recovery options

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maryam Esmaeili ◽  
F. Naseri ◽  
M. Seifbarghy ◽  
T. Heydari
Keyword(s):  
Markov Chain ◽  
Inventory Control ◽  
Production System ◽  
Production Systems ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Mixed Integer ◽  
High Price ◽  
Sale Price ◽  
Hybrid Production ◽  
Bee Colony

Although pricing and inventory control are crucial decisions in each production system, these decisions investigate separately. This paper considers pricing and inventory control decisions simultaneously as a hybrid production system. The hybrid production system with two recovery options, remanufacturing and refurbishing are presented. The demand follows Poisson distribution, which depends on the sale price of each product. Returned products arrive according to a Poisson process. Each returned product can be remanufactured, refurbished, or disposed of. The time to manufacturing, refurbishing, and remanufacturing a product also follows an exponential distribution. By modeling the system as a Markov chain, the long-run expected profit function is derived as a function of the dispose –down-to level of returned products and the order-up-to level and the sale price of serviceable products 1 and 2. Considering pricing and inventory control decisions simultaneously with remanufacturing and refurbishing returned products creates a three-dimensional state space of the Markov Chain with dependence, the sale price of products. Due to the complexity of the model (mixed integer nonlinear programming), the Artificial Bee Colony(ABC)algorithm and complete search method are used. The results show that by increasing the purchase price of returned products, the amount of returned products will increase. If the refurbishing cost of the return products is high or the disposal cost is low, less inventory should be kept in the system with a high price of serviceable products. If the lost sale cost is high, the more inventory should be maintained. Moreover, by decreasing the price elasticity of demand, the customer’s demand is increased, and then more inventory should be kept in the system.

scholarly journals Markets: Gift Cards

2007 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 227-238 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Pate Offenberg
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Data ◽  
Internet Auction ◽  
Gift Cards ◽  
The Gift ◽  
Resale Price ◽  
The Difference ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Gift Card ◽  
Oil Company ◽  
Two Alternatives

The Mobil Oil Company introduced the first retail gift card that recorded value on a magnetic strip in 1995. In under a decade, such gift cards replaced apparel as the number one item sold during the Christmas season. This study will discuss the reasons for the strong surge in the gift card market. It will then consider the value of gift cards as an intermediate option between two alternatives: purchasing a physical gift, which could possibly be returned or exchanged, versus giving cash. Empirical data on the resale price of gift cards from an Internet auction website provide information on the value that recipients place on gift cards suggesting that the difference between the cost of a gift card to the giver and its value to the recipient is substantial, although perhaps not quite as large as the parallel gap involved in physical gifts.

scholarly journals Like Soldiers on the Front – A Qualitative Study Understanding the Frontline Healthcare Professionals’ Experience of Treating and Caring for Patients With COVID-19

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ilkay Dagyaran ◽  
Signe Stelling Risom ◽  
Selina Kikkenborg Berg ◽  
Ida Elisabeth Højskov ◽  
Malin Heiden ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Family Life ◽  
Healthcare Professionals ◽  
Working Hours ◽  
Working Life ◽  
Work Life ◽  
High Price ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Professional Pride ◽  
The Individual ◽  
And Shifts

Abstract Background: While people in the societies must stay home to reduce spread of the newly discovered coronavirus, healthcare professionals do the exact opposite. For them the coronavirus is an enemy that should be defeated as a part of one’s job. They do, however, also have a daily life with family while doing their work obligations. The purpose of this study was to gain an in-depth understanding of the frontline healthcare professionals’ experience of balancing work life and family life during the COVID-19 pandemic.Methods: A sample of 22 frontline healthcare professionals caring for patients with COVID-19 was included and interviewed individually from May to August 2020. Ricoeur’s phenomenological hermeneutical philosophy inspired the methodology in this study. Result: Frontline healthcare professionals treating and caring for patients with COVID-19 are, voluntarily or involuntarily, forced to be ready to change departments as well as being ready to face the unknown coronavirus. The frontline work leads to feelings of being abandoned among their families and friends due to the threat of bringing the infection home and spreading the virus. Although healthcare professionals are facing a working life filled with uncertainty and unpredictability impacting their family life, they express opposing feelings of being a part of something bigger. Conclusion: The work life balance for these healthcare professionals is threatened by changes in professional responsibilities, working hours and shifts. Fear of bringing the infection home challenges them ethically and creates a distance between healthcare professionals and their families, leading to a conflict within the individual if their work on the frontline is worth it - or if it is a too high price to pay. Despite facing a working life filled with uncertainty and unpredictability the healthcare professionals are being a part of something bigger that contributes to a fighting spirit and professional pride outweighing the negative consequences; like being soldiers on the front.

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