• The budget-maximizing model is a stream of public choice theory and rational choice analysis in public administration inaugurated by William Niskanen...
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  • Entropy maximization Maximization (economics) Profit maximization Utility maximization problem Budget-maximizing model Shareholder value, maximization Maximization...
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    public choice theory was the budget-maximizing model – the notion that bureaucrats will attempt to maximize their agency's budget and authority. He presented...
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  • choice model of bureaucracy and a response to the budget-maximization model. It argues that rational officials will not want to maximize their budgets, but...
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  • interest, may act to benefit themselves, for example in the budget-maximizing model of bureaucracy, possibly at the cost of efficiency. Modern public choice...
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  • in income. For utility maximization there are four basic steps process to derive consumer demand and find the utility maximizing bundle of the consumer...
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    revenue-maximizing average federal tax rate between 32.67% and 35.21%. A 1981 article published in the Journal of Political Economy presented a model integrating...
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  • Debreu theorems. Thus instead of maximizing preference, we can equivalently state that the household is maximizing its utility. A consumption plan is...
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  • that public officials tend to maximize their budgets by the budget-maximizing model. As public officials are budget maximizers, the bureaucrats have no incentive...
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  • academic preference for maximizing the value of the firm according to NPV, surveys indicate that executives prefer to maximize returns[citation needed]...
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  • {\displaystyle x_{1},x_{2},\dots ,x_{n}} consumed. The model further assumes that the consumer has a budget M {\displaystyle M} which is used to purchase a vector...
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  • Computer Science, Optimal Computing Budget Allocation (OCBA) is a simulation optimization method designed to maximize the Probability of Correct Selection...
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  • Public budgeting is a field of public administration and a discipline in the academic study of public administration. Budgeting is characterized by its...
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    the event of an ambush. After combat experience showed the benefits of maximizing portable automatic firepower in squad-size formations, the US Marine Corps...
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  • a convex or concave function can also be described as the problem of maximizing or minimizing a submodular function subject to some constraints. The hardness...
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    equilibrium of soft budget constraints. Consumer behaviour is a maximization problem. It means making the most of our limited resources to maximize our utility...
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  • all firms earn the joint-profit maximizing or collusive profit. Some research has suggested that satisficing/maximizing and other decision-making strategies...
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  • in optimizing the marketing budget by identifying the most and least efficient marketing activities. Once the final model is ready, the results from it...
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  • Budget-proposal aggregation (BPA) is a problem in social choice theory. A group has to decide on how to distribute its budget among several issues. Each...
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  • decision making then becomes a problem of maximizing this utility function, subject to constraints (e.g. a budget). This has many advantages. It provides...
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  • title or subject. Mockbusters are often made with a low budget and quick production to maximize profits. "Mockbuster" is a portmanteau of the words "mock"...
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    A low-cost carrier (LCC) or low-cost airline, also called a budget, or discount carrier or airline, is an airline that is operated with an emphasis on...
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  • cash and credit. These are often grouped together under the rubric of maximizing the value of the firm for stockholders. The discipline is then tasked...
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    Orange Pi (section Models)
    "Orange Pi - Orangepi". www.orangepi.org. Retrieved 2025-01-03. "Maximizing AI on a Budget: A Guide to Orange Pi, Raspberry Pi, and Jetson". boardor.com...
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    as the outcome of a utility-maximizing process, with each individual trying to maximize their own utility under a budget constraint and a given consumption...
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  • Logarithmic" (PIGLOG) model which allows researchers to treat aggregate consumer behavior as if it were the outcome of a single maximizing consumer. Many studies...
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    Gittins, gives an optimal policy for maximizing the expected discounted reward. The multi-armed bandit problem models an agent that simultaneously attempts...
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  • the size of the society's budget depends largely on its success in maximizing revenue from commissions. This funding model applies not just to the central...
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  • of demand Utility maximization problem - a problem faced by consumers in a market: how to maximize their utility given their budget. Utility assessment...
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  • consumers maximize the desirability of their consumption (as measured by their preferences subject to limitations on their expenditures), by maximizing utility...
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