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- 1986
- Working Paper
Price Competition with a Distribution of Switch Costs and Reservation Prices
By: Jerry R. Green and Suzanne Scotchmer
When there is a distribution of switch costs and of reservation prices for a good, and marginal cost of producing the good is zero, equilibrium in pure price strategies may (and sometimes must) exhibit price dispersion. Equilibrium may or may not exist, and there may... View Details
- June 1986
- Article
Dividend Variability and Variance Bounds Tests for the Rationality of Stock Market Prices
By: Robert C. Merton and Terry A. Marsh
- February 1986
- Article
The Derivation of the Bayesian Ramsey Pricing Rule
By: Dutch Leonard and William B. Tye
- January 1986 (Revised November 2006)
- Case
Peripheral Products Company: The 'Gray Market' for Disk Drives
In mid-1985, the vice president of marketing for a large manufacturer of disk drives is considering how to deal with a growing "gray market" for his company's products. The case provides good background material on the evolution of gray markets throughout the disk... View Details
- 1986
- Book
Investment Banking and Diligence: What Price Deregulation?
By: Joseph Auerbach and Samuel Hayes
- 1986
- Article
The Dollar as an Irrational Speculative Bubble: A Tale of Fundamentalists and Chartists
By: J. Frankel and K. A. Froot
- August 1985
- Case
CML Group, Inc.: Going Public (C)
Contains a description of some issues confronting management of CML Group. They have decided to go public, have selected an underwriting team, and must make final decisions about the size, composition and pricing of the issue. Because stock prices have fallen since the... View Details
- February 1985 (Revised September 1988)
- Case
Komatsu Ltd.
Reviews and updates the structure and characteristics of the earth-moving equipment industry presented in the companion case, Caterpillar Tractor Co. After revealing that CAT has suffered major financial losses during the period from 1981 through 1984, the case... View Details
- 1985
- Working Paper
Sequential Innovation and Market Structure
By: Jerry R. Green and Jean-Jacques Laffont
This paper concerns the introduction of a sequence of new, higher-quality durable products in a market in which there already exists a lower-quality substitute. The product has the further attribute that a real resource cost is incurred at the time a higher-quality... View Details
- December 1984
- Article
An Approach for Developing an Optimal Discount Pricing Policy
By: R. Lal and Richard Staelin
- November 1984
- Background Note
Black-Scholes Option Pricing Program for the HP 12C Calculator
By: Andre F. Perold
Contains a program that can be used on the HP12C pocket calculator to compute the Black-Scholes option price and the associated hedge ratio. The program must be given the following parameters: the exercise price, the risk-free rate, the time to expiration, and the... View Details
- October 1984 (Revised July 2003)
- Case
At the T. Rowe Price Trading Desk (A)
By: Andre F. Perold
Describes the events surrounding the sale of a particular large block of a thinly traded stock. Brings the situation to the point at which the seller has received an offer, and must now decide what to do. View Details
- 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
- 1984
- Book
Energy Policy in America Since 1945: A Study of Business-Government Relations
By: Richard Vietor
Follows the history of government intervention in U.S. energy markets from 1945 to the present and shows how shifting market conditions of surplus and shortage and above all, price have played a determining role in the political process and U.S. fuel policy... View Details
Keywords: Political Economy; United States; Postwar Policy; Energy; Energy Sources; Policy; United States
- September 1984 (Revised December 1992)
- Case
Federated Industries (A)
By: Robert J. Dolan
The market leader in an overcapacity industry with a commodity product is trying to restore industry price levels. Price cutting has hurt overall industry price levels and the leader must determine whether (and how) to bring up price levels or exit the market. View Details
- September 1984 (Revised May 1985)
- Teaching Note
Federated Industries (A) TN
By: Robert J. Dolan
Teaching Note for (9-585-104). View Details
- September 1984 (Revised October 1992)
- Background Note
Pricing Policy
By: Robert J. Dolan
Presents fundamental pricing principles. View Details
Keywords: Price