In this effort, companies must recognise that both demand and supply factors are – or will be – driving the transformation of their competitive landscapes.
Patient factors may be more important than supply factors in explaining the differential use of health services.
Job losses among women during the recent recession exhibit a curious pattern by marital status that is revealing about the importance of labor demand and supply factors.
Yet I think the relationship between marital status and job losses is revealing about other demand and supply factors, to which I will turn in next week's post.
My conclusion is not new to labor economists, who have long understood that supply factors could increase the ratio of unemployed to job openings.
Lazear's question is whether a large part of the rise in unemployment is "structural", that is, reflecting supply factors, or whether it's mainly simple lack of demand.
There was also a surge of interest in Internet chat-rooms devoted to the subject.On the other hand, supply factors are also plainly at work.
He finally came up with an explanation: "The fund was negatively impacted during the quarter by weakening energy prices due to irrational supply factors and excess inventories". Brad sent it off, believing that he adequately addressed the issue.
It is also a global business, having played a role in developing the Indian mobile telecoms market and China's Shenzen Development Bank.The private equity market has been driven by demand and supply factors.
The fall in yield was smaller on 10-year bonds, where supply factors are less pronounced, to 6.57percentt from 6.62percentt, and there were also declines on the short end of the spectrum, with the yield on three-month Treasury bills falling to 5.63percentt from 5.71percentt.
The long-run rate of growth of the economy would be determined by the rate of ascent of the ceiling, which in turn would depend upon supply factors such as the rate of growth of the labour force and the rate of growth of technical progress or productivity.
