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Market Research

Capital: …

  • What is the concept of a market segment?
  • What is the concept of product differentiation?
  • What defines or constitutes a market?

  • Market Size

  • Loyalty Analysis
  • Choice Modelling
  • Demand Modelling
  • Competition Analysis
  • Market Segmentation
  • Market Trend Analysis
  • Price Sensitivity Analysis
  • Customer Needs Assessment
  • Marketing Effectiveness Analysis

QA:

  • How should we reason about fixed assets? How do they fit into the broader model of an enterprise?
  • How to know when fixed capital makes economic sense?

Index

Business Modelling

  • Capture Video Data for Employment Performance Compensation

Enterprise as a Machine

\(E: I → O\)

  • Debt:
    • Physical Capital → …

Debt

  • Modigliani and Miller (1958, 1963)The Cost of Capital, Corporation Finance and the Theory of Investment.
  • Jensen and Meckling (1976) — Theory of the Firm: Managerial Behavior, Agency Costs and Ownership Structure.
  • Bernanke, Gertler, and Gilchrist (1999) — The Financial Accelerator in a Quantitative Business Cycle Framework.
  • Kiyotaki and Moore (1997) — Credit Cycles.
  • Myers (1977) — Determinants of Corporate Borrowing.
  • Brander and Lewis (1986) — Oligopoly and Financial Structure: The Limited Liability Effect.
  • Chen and Guo (2015) — Operations Management Under Financial Constraints.

Fixed Capital

  • Bottlenecks: A tractor without sufficient fields or operators is underutilized fixed capital.

References

  • Marx
  • Coase, R. H. (1937), “The Nature of the Firm”
  • Andrew Kliman, Reclaiming Marx’s "Capital" (2007)
  • Dale W. Jorgenson (1963), “Capital Theory and Investment Behavior”
  • Piero Sraffa, Production of Commodities by Means of Commodities (1960)
  • Anthony G. Bower and Thomas M. Keating, “A Dynamic Model for Equipment Replacement” (1967)

References

  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_research
  • [ ] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedge_(finance) Great ….
  • [ ] https://github.com/virattt/ai-hedge-fund