Price - Publications - Faculty & Research

29 Jun 2022
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As Prices Skyrocket, Coupons Are Harder to Find Than Ever

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Concentrated Capital Losses and the Pricing of Corporate Credit Risk

In studying the U.S. credit default swap (CDS) market, Professor Siriwardane has discovered that the selling of CDS protection is extremely concentrated, with five sellers accounting for nearly half the market. Further, in contrast to what neoclassical theory... View Details

2023
Working Paper

Investor Preferences, Security Design and Volatility Prices

By: Claire Célérier, Gordon Liao and Boris Vallée

This paper investigates the effects of the issuance of retail products with non-linear payoffs on option prices. For a given underlying asset, when the outstanding volume of products embedding a short-put position increases, implied volatility at the corresponding... View Details

Keywords: Security Design; Dividend; Options; Structured Products; Market Segmentation; Financial Instruments; Design; Volatility; Markets; Segmentation

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2012
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Starting Prices and Consumer Sensitivity to Customization

By: Marco Bertini and Luc Wathieu

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May 2008 (Revised June 2009)
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Radiohead: Music at Your Own Price (B)

By: Anita Elberse and Jason Bergsman

Keywords: Arts; Entertainment and Recreation Industry

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October 2005 (Revised June 2007)
Case

Apollo Hospitals--First-World Health Care at Emerging-Market Prices

By: Felix Oberholzer-Gee, Tarun Khanna and Carin-Isabel Knoop

The Apollo Hospitals Group, one of Asia's premier health care organizations, had come to rival the best health care organizations on the globe. Apollo offered advanced medical procedures, such as cardiac surgery using the beating heart technique, at very high levels of... View Details

Keywords: Vertical Integration; Decision Choices and Conditions; Health Care and Treatment; Global Strategy; Developing Countries and Economies; Health Industry; Thailand; United States; India

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2005
Chapter

The Price of Progress: Structually Induced Inaction

By: Scott Snook and Jeffrey C. Connor

Keywords: Organizational Structure; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Outcome or Result

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Article

Variance-Minimizing Monetary Policies with Lagged Price Adjustment and Rational Expectations

By: Jerry R. Green and Seppo Honkapohja

This paper considers a macroeconomic model with rational expectations in which prices are incompletely flexible. Markets therefore fail to clear. In such a model monetary policy is not neutral. The variance of real and nominal quantities and interest rates is sensitive... View Details

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25 Aug 2022
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Research Brief: Paying the Price for Remote Work

Alberto Cavallo’s paper, “The International Price of Remote Work.” Using a data set from 2019 to 2021 from one of the largest web platforms, Cavallo and coauthors Agostina Brinatti, Javier Cravino, and Andres Drenik found that a country’s... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken; Market Research, Photo, Translation, Veterinary and Other Services; Professional Services

26 May 2022
News

What’s Supercharging Inflation and Dragging Down the Economy? The Price of Diesel.

13 May 2021
News

Airbnb Pricing Algorithm LED to Increased Racial Disparities, Study Finds

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Price as a Stimulus to Think: The Case for Willful Overpricing

Consumers aware of a new benefit will often experience uncertainty about its personal relevance or usage value. This paper shows that the decision to deliberate further to resolve this uncertainty and reach a polarized judgment of personal relevance critically depends... View Details

1998
Comment

Regional Patterns in the Law of One Price

By: K. A. Froot

Keywords: Price

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October 1984 (Revised July 2003)
Supplement

At the T. Rowe Price Trading Desk (B)

By: Andre F. Perold

Supplements the (A) case. View Details

Keywords: Financial Services Industry

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Price Wars and the Managers Who Start Them

By: Marco Bertini

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29 Jul 2010
News

Yes, You Can Raise Prices in a Downturn

Keywords: Ben Shapiro, Frank Cespedes

Cost Conscious? The Neural and Behavioral Impact of Price Primacy on Decision-Making

Price is a key factor in most purchases, but can be presented at different stages of decision-making prior to a purchase. We looked at how the order of price and product information might impact decision-making... View Details