Panhellenic Economics & Informatics case studies
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The Panhellenic Economics & Informatics examination is a Greek national-level admissions assessment for candidates seeking entry to university departments that combine economics with computing and information systems. It is aimed at upper-secondary graduates who want a degree programme where economic reasoning and technical skill carry equal weight: applied economics, informatics, management science, or digital-economy tracks. The Panhellenic Economics & Informatics case studies are 5 cases and about 4,257 words.
1Ferry Concession: Capacity-Constrained Fares for Residents and Tourists
A private operator holds the ten-year concession for the only ferry route to a 9,000-resident island. Ticketing data give well-identified demand curves: residents Q R = 1200 − 40P and tourists Q T = 800 − 20P, with Q in passenger-crossings per day and P in euros.
826 words, about 4 min2Training Pilot: Interpreting an Encouragement-Design IV Against OLS
A labour ministry ran a pilot on 1,800 registered unemployed people. Half were randomly selected to receive an offer of a six-week training course; the other half were not.
813 words, about 4 min3Van Routing on a Single Arterial Road: Heuristic, Exact, or Structurally Solvable
A courier company serves 2,000 delivery points in a single shift. Every point lies on one straight arterial road running north–south; the depot sits at kilometre 0, and the sorted stop coordinates run from −18.0 km to +34.0 km, roughly evenly spread.
841 words, about 4 min4Ticket On-Sale: Double-Sold Seats Under Read Committed Isolation
An arena with 12,000 seats puts a concert on sale at 10:00. About 40,000 users are queued and the booking service peaks at 3,000 requests per second.
874 words, about 4 min5Triage Line Staffing: Erlang C Versus a Process Change
A regional health service runs a telephone triage line. During the evening peak, calls arrive as a Poisson process at 24 per hour and are handled by nurses whose service times are well approximated by an exponential distribution with a mean of 4 minutes.
903 words, about 5 min