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transportation costs of consumers, which consequently softens competition and allows higher profits. Therefore, the response of firms …
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This two-part working paper series represents a distillation of practical approaches with regard to the successful management of so-called “legacy assets” which include both impaired as well as non-performing loans, particularly in those in the real estate and property sectors. This two-part...
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In this essay, I examine the connection between pricing, profit mark ups, competition, and economic activity from a …-based mark up pricing model; the conclusion reached is that market structure and competition have no fundamental role in … affecting pricing, profit mark ups, or economic activity. However, it is generally perceived in heterodox economics that …
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During the marginalist controversy, full costers failed to convince economists of the superiority of full cost pricing … over marginal theory of imperfect competition. The controversy was closed prematurely; various contributions published … rate of profit and the emergence of the market price The present paper shows that the full cost pricing is not so justified …
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Article about alternative interpretations of the concept of "competition" as the adaptive behavior of market … participants. The author substantiates the thesis of the identity of market adaptation and market competition rather than rivalry. …
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The marketplace, along with its price system, is the single most important institution in a western-style free enterprise economy. The ability of prices to adjust to changes in supply and demand conditions enables the market to function efficiently and lies behind the magical invisible hand...
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The central premise of the Black and Scholes [Black, F., Scholes, M. (1973). The pricing of options and corporate … liabilities. Journal of Political Economy 81, 637–659] and Merton [Merton, R. (1973). Theory of rational option pricing. Bell … Journal of Economics and Management Science 4, 141–184] option pricing theory is that there exists a self-financing dynamic …
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expenditures. To identify optimal advertising and pricing decisions, we discuss three possible games (two non cooperative games …
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We develop a model of household demand for frequently purchased consumer goods that are branded, storable and subject to stochastic price fluctuations. Our framework accounts for how inventories and expectations of future prices affect current period purchase decisions. We estimate our model...
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building block of no-arbitrage pricing theory. Nowadays, in the modern financial world after the credit crunch, some Libors are …
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