Gordon Scott has been an active investor and technical analyst or 20+ years. He is a Chartered Market Technician (CMT). Amanda Jackson has expertise in personal finance, investing, and social services ...

In light of recent news that UPS is “doubling down” in a signficant move to beef up its cross-border capabilities, I couldn’t help but don my oligopolistic hat and ponder some related theories. But ...

We consider a theoretical model of a consumer who faces a price that varies with the number of units bought, and who faces random future changes in his demand for the good. an example is cumulative ...

Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

Building on Kihlstrom and Mirman (Journal of Economic Theory, 8(3), 361-388, 1974)'s formulation of risk aversion in the case of multidimensional utility functions, we study the effect of risk ...

An Excel workbook called DemandCurve.xls provides a simple example of how to use Solver and the Comparative Statics Wizard to set up a standard consumer theory optimization problem and then derive a ...

When Haitham Al-Ghais, the director of market research for the Kuwait Petroleum Corporation, was asked about peak oil demand Monday, he smiled broadly and responded quizzically, "what demand?" Even as ...

At CA World 2003, company CTO Yogesh Gupta defined an on-demand platform as using integrated IP network, network storage, virtual servers, wireless technologies and Web services. He described the ...

Housing demand shocks in standard macroeconomic models are a primary source of house price fluctuations, but those models have difficulties in generating the observed large volatility of house prices ...