The bogeyman is the stable-price directive.
We formulate the monthly channel route scheduling problem using a traditional network design formulation, and we use price-directive decomposition to overcome tractability issues.
Programming, to appear, doi 10.1007/s10107-007-0106-8] (which is a generalization of the approximation algorithm proposed by Grigoriadis and Khachiyan [Coordination complexity of parallel price-directive decomposition, Math. Oper. Res. 2 (1996) 321 340]).
If prices are not readily available, directive prices will be used [ 27] or additional calculations will be made.
If true cost prices are not available in the participating centres, 1) existing cost prices of the uhM or 2) official directive prices are used[ 28].
In case true cost prices are not readily available in all participating centres the existing cost-prices of the University Hospital Maastricht or official directive prices are used [ 31].
The shift from basing tobacco excise rates on the MPPC to the weighted average retail selling price in the latest EU Directive 9 is therefore to be welcomed.
Norway implements all EU directives as the price of being in the EU single market – the "pay without a say" model that politicians in Oslo think the British would loathe.
More than for its counterparts, the central bank's prime directive is to protect price stability.
The government directive to reduce the price of some basic foodstuffs such as rice is welcomed, even if, legally, they are supposed to supply their systems with local products.
After assuming office, in March , 1933 Roosevelt enacted bold measures aimed at reviving the moribund economy: a banking holiday, deposit insurance, expanded public works, a devaluation of the dollar, price controls, the imposition of production directives on many industries.
