Switching Costs Sample Clauses

Switching Costs. Dependent and Independent Variables All firms Poland Slovakia Romania Russia Ukraine Number of observations 1115 335 395 321 40 24 Loyalty to existing suppliers Refuse offer of new supplier 15.5% 17.3% 21.3% 8.7% 5.0% 4.2% Buy from both 34.4% 40.3% 26.1% 26.8% 95.0% 87.5% Buy from new supplier 50.1% 42.4% 52.7% 64.5% 0.0% 8.3% Complexity of Input: Supplier produces good unique to your firm 11.0% 8.7% 16.7% 5.9% 17.5% 8.3% Firm has no alternative supplier for this input 31.7% 27.5% 30.9% 37.4% 27.5% 33.3% Supplier produces good to order 20.5% 24.2% 19.6% 17.4% 25.0% 16.7% Quality specifications are written 77.4% 58.8% 83.5% 86.6% 90.0% 91.7% Input is produced to inventory and sold to others (Standard) 76.2% 72.5% 74.6% 81.6% 75.0% 83.3% Input is produced to order or is unique (Custom) 23.8% 27.5% 25.4% 18.4% 25.0% 16.7% Information: Duration of relationship 3-12 months 35.1% 34.0% 34.2% 41.4% 15.0% 12.5% Duration of relationship 13-24 months 14.2% 14.9% 14.9% 14.6% 0.0% 8.3% Duration of relationship 2 - 9 years 36.2% 36.7% 38.0% 26.2% 77.5% 66.7% Duration of relationship more than 9 years 2.8% 5.0% 1.8% 0.0% 7.5% 12.5% First information from business network 50.9% 51.0% 57.7% 40.8% 55.0% 66.7% First information from social network 8.9% 3.0% 8.6% 14.6% 17.5% 12.5% Member of trade association with customer, supplier services 26.0% 19.1% 22.0% 35.2% 45.0% 33.3% Frequency of delivery (scale 0-5) 2.82 2.79 2.85 2.92 2.23 2.29 Visits from supplier before 1st purchase (scale 0-7) 1.74 1.64 2.05 1.43 1.25 3.33 Courts: Courts can enforce contracts (0/1) 76.5% 78.5% 70.1% 88.5% 42.5% 50.0% Used court in most recent dispute (0/1) 28.1% 35.8% 27.8% 24.0% 7.5% 12.5% Table 6 Switching Costs -- Probability of Rejecting Deal Probit Regressions Complexity: (1) (2) (3) (4) Custom Inputs only (5) Standard Inputs only Supplier produces good unique to your 0.17 0.14 0.14 0.23 firm (4.47) (3.84) (3.76) (4.65) Firm has no alternative supplier for this 0.11 0.10 0.10 0.17 0.08 input (4.43) (4.47) (4.56) (3.36) (3.63) Quality specifications are written 0.05 0.03 0.03 0.08 0.04 (1.99) (1.22) (1.34) (1.64) (1.67) Information: Duration of relationship 3-12 months -0.05 -0.07 -0.06 -0.19 -0.04 (1.76) (2.54) (2.48) (3.49) (1.49) Duration of relationship 13-24 months 0.01 -0.02 -0.02 -0.08 -0.010 (0.24) (0.66) (0.76) (1.23) (0.18) Duration of relationship 2 - 9 years 0.00 -0.01 -0.01 -0.13 0.010 (0.12) (0.21) (0.31) (2.05) (0.46) Duration of relationship more than -0.09 -0.09 -0.09 (a) -...
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Switching Costs. To switch, from one scheme within a plan to another, may carry a charge.

Related to Switching Costs

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  • Processing Costs In addition to the Purchase Price, Buyer shall pay Processing Costs in the amount of $900.00, to be paid to Seller in cash or other readily available funds at closing. The Processing Costs are owed in addition to the Purchase Price and shall not be considered part of the Purchase Price.

  • Operating Costs The Assuming Institution agrees, during its period of use of any Leased Data Management Equipment, to pay to the Receiver or to appropriate third parties at the direction of the Receiver all operating costs with respect thereto and to comply with all relevant terms of any existing Leased Data Management Equipment leases entered into by the Failed Bank, including without limitation the timely payment of all rent, taxes, fees, charges, maintenance, utilities, insurance and assessments.

  • Justifying Costs In accordance with its own usual accounting and management principles and practices, each Party shall be solely responsible for justifying its costs with respect to the Project towards the Funding Authority. Neither the Coordinator nor any of the other Parties shall be in any way liable or responsible for such justification of costs towards the Funding Authority.

  • Direct Expenses 1. Fees and expenses of its directors (including the fees of those directors who are deemed to be "interested persons" of the Fund as that term is defined in the Investment Company Act of 1940) and the meetings thereof;

  • Weighing and Scaling Costs Purchaser agrees to pay for all weighing costs for logs delivered regardless if logs are purchased on a weight or scale basis. In addition, Purchaser agrees to pay for all scaling costs for logs delivered on a scale basis. Purchaser also agrees to pay for all costs associated with the transmission and reporting of scale or weight data.

  • Start-Up Costs 4.1.1 The Government of Ontario will provide:

  • Recover Copying Costs The Participating Institutions may impose a reasonable fee on the Authorized Users to cover costs of copying or printing portions of the Licensed Materials by or for the Authorized Users.

  • Uniform Maintenance Allowance 22.1 The City provides uniforms or uniform allowance for employees represented by the Association. The City will continue to replace, repair and maintain uniforms worn in the line of duty. The average cost of the uniforms/uniform allowances are reported as special compensation (for those employees defined as “classic employees” by the Public Employees’ Pension Reform Act of 2013 for retirement calculation purposes and is currently reported as $17 per pay period.

  • Basic Services Fee 6.1.1 For Basic Services, as described in Article 1, and including all disciplines identified in Paragraph 15.1 as part of Basic Services, Architect/Engineer’s fee shall be a negotiated Basic Services Fee to cover all costs and profit.

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