But, as this is Waitrose, more extravagant shoppers can also opt for continuous discounts on parma ham, sushi and buffalo mozzarella.
We consider a continuous (discounted) asset price S in a market endowed with a set ({mathcal {P}}) of local martingale measures for S, which are possibly mutually singular to each other and support a time consistent sublinear expectation.
Lee (1993) applied GP technique with both no quantity discounts and continuous quantity discounts cases to determine optimal price and order quantity for a retailer.
Or consider the continuous round of discounts and rebates that General Motors — a company that lost $8.6 billion last year — has been offering to customers.
This is six months ahead of my time table when the market would then discount continuous economic recovery for 2011.
Karp, Larry S. "Non-constant Discounting in Continuous Time", Journal of Economic Theory, No 132 pp 557 – 568 (2007).
Courts and regulators have told the company 'no' repeatedly, but hidden behind a paper tiger coalition of nice sound groups, which largely only exist around election time, the insurance company is going to voters under the pretense of offering "discounts" for continuous coverage.
The group has spent $700,000 of that to hire signature gatherers, at up to a dollar a name, to stand in supermarket parking lots and gull people into signing a petition for an initiative called -- in another Orwellian upisdownism -- the Continuous Coverage Auto Insurance Discount Act.
Where u t is the decision to continue or stop the process at time t, π t is the profit flow in the current time state as a function of u t and state variable x t, ρ is the discount rate for continuous compounding, E t is the expectation at time t, and Φ t is the value of the control problem.
