... Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Police studies Organizational performance Quantitative techniques The difference-in-differences (DID) approach is a useful tool for making meaningful comparisons. This case tries to provide a non-technical introduction to the approach using...

... to set a bid price that was not so low as to incur a loss and not so high as to lose the bid to competitors. The uncertainty made Birari’s decision-making complex. The case invites students to help Birari find an optimum bid price by using various quantitative techniques, such as Monte Carlo simulation...

.... Ejiofor can be contacted at: ekejiofor@gmail.com © Emerald Publishing Limited 2017 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Quantitative techniques Quality assurance Capital investment/resource allocation decisions Risk management/analysis Kingsley E. Ejiofor...