The phrase "set quantity" is a legitimate and commonly used term in written English.
It refers to a fixed or predetermined amount of something. Example: The recipe calls for a set quantity of two cups of flour.
Prior experience suggests that price and quantity-based programs, such as feed-in tariffs, provide more efficient renewable adoption and use and lower program costs than programs that set quantity targets only.
For example, the SQL query for update(Alphabet, 30) is usually instantiated as update Stock set quantity -= 30, price = p where sid = Alphabet, where p is the latest price provided by user.
There is no set quantity of fellowships each year, but it is usually between 20 and 40.
(An "option" is a contract that gives the right, but - unlike a future - not the obligation, to buy or to sell a set quantity of an asset at a set price on or up to a given future date).
It then "hedged" the risk of such contracts, for example by buying the gas "futures" that the New York Mercantile Exchange began to trade in 1990 - a "future" being a standardised contract to buy or sell a set quantity of a given asset at a set price on a given future date.
Studios are expected to agree to order a set quantity of film per year for the next several years.
Researchers have long studied how to make brainstorming sessions more effective — for example, by setting quantity goals, instead of quality ones.
So previously Firm 1 and 2 were just setting quantities simultaneously.
We first consider the alternative "Bertrand" model of imperfect competition between two firms in which the firms set prices rather than setting quantities.
In one model we thought of the firms setting quantities and the market determining prices, and here we have the firms setting prices and the market determining quantities, but the basic underlying economic structure of this is very, very similar.
This time, however, instead of setting quantities, instead of just deciding how much Coke and Pepsi to produce and spewing it out in the market and letting prices take care of themselves, this time the firms are going to set prices and let quantities take care of themselves.
