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  • March 2000
  • Background Note

Transfer Pricing

By: Robert S. Kaplan
Discusses use of market prices, negotiated prices, variable costs, dual rate, and full costs for transfer prices. View Details
Keywords: Fair Value Accounting; Cost Accounting; Price; Price Bubble; Negotiation; Cost Management; Cost of Capital; Financial Markets; Strategic Planning; Accounting Industry
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Kaplan, Robert S. "Transfer Pricing." Harvard Business School Background Note 100-099, March 2000.
  • April 1998
  • Article

Strategic Transfer Pricing

By: S. Datar and M. G. Alles
Keywords: Strategy; Price
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Datar, S., and M. G. Alles. "Strategic Transfer Pricing." Management Science 44, no. 4 (April 1998): pp. 451–461.
  • 2009
  • Working Paper

Gray Markets and Multinational Transfer Pricing

By: Romana L. Autrey and Francesco Bova
Gray markets arise when a manufacturer's products are sold outside of its authorized channels, for instance when goods designated for a foreign market are resold domestically. One method multinationals use to combat gray markets is to increase internal transfer prices... View Details
Keywords: Price; Multinational Firms and Management; Demand and Consumers; Distribution Channels; Business and Government Relations; Sales; Competitive Strategy
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Autrey, Romana L., and Francesco Bova. "Gray Markets and Multinational Transfer Pricing." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 09-098, February 2009. (Revised October 2009.)
  • 16 Apr 2009
  • Working Paper Summaries

Gray Markets and Multinational Transfer Pricing

Keywords: by Romana L. Autrey & Francesco Bova
  • May 1997
  • Article

Transfer Pricing with ABC

By: Robert S. Kaplan, Dan Weiss and Eyal Desheh
Keywords: Price
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Kaplan, Robert S., Dan Weiss, and Eyal Desheh. "Transfer Pricing with ABC." Management Accounting (May 1997): 20–28. (Winner of Institute of Management Accountants. Lybrand Certificate of Merit presented by Institute of Management Accountants​.)
  • summer 1985
  • Article

Analyzing Your Company's Transfer Pricing Practices

By: Robert G. Eccles Jr.
Keywords: Price; Practice; Business Ventures
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Eccles, Robert G., Jr. "Analyzing Your Company's Transfer Pricing Practices." Journal of Cost Management for the Manufacturing Industry 1 (summer 1985): 21–33.
  • spring 1992
  • Article

Optimal Transfer Pricing under Postcontract Information

By: R. Banker and S. Datar
Keywords: Price; Information
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Banker, R., and S. Datar. "Optimal Transfer Pricing under Postcontract Information." Contemporary Accounting Research 8, no. 2 (spring 1992): 329–352.
  • November–December 1983
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Control with Fairness in Transfer Pricing

By: Robert G. Eccles Jr.
Keywords: Fairness; Price
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Eccles, Robert G., Jr. "Control with Fairness in Transfer Pricing." Harvard Business Review 61, no. 6 (November–December 1983): 149–161.
  • 1991
  • Chapter

Transfer Pricing as a Problem of Agency

By: Robert G. Eccles Jr.
Keywords: Price; Agency Theory
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Eccles, Robert G., Jr. "Transfer Pricing as a Problem of Agency." In Principals and Agents: The Structure of Business, edited by John W. Pratt and Richard Zeckhauser, 151–186. Harvard Business School Press, 1991.
  • 2013
  • Working Paper

Full-cost Transfer Pricing and Cost Management

By: J. Bouwens and B. Steens
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Bouwens, J., and B. Steens. "Full-cost Transfer Pricing and Cost Management." Working Paper, 2013. (Tilburg University.)
  • 1985
  • Book

The Transfer Pricing Problem: A Theory for Practice

By: Robert G. Eccles
Keywords: Price; Change; Problems and Challenges; Theory; Practice
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Eccles, Robert G. The Transfer Pricing Problem: A Theory for Practice. New York: Lexington Books, 1985.
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Impact of Competition and Taxes on Responsibility Center Organization and Transfer Prices

By: V.G. Narayanan and Michael Smith
Keywords: Competition; Taxation; Price
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Narayanan, V.G., and Michael Smith. "Impact of Competition and Taxes on Responsibility Center Organization and Transfer Prices." Contemporary Accounting Research 17, no. 3 (Fall 2000).
  • 10 Aug 2012
  • Working Paper Summaries

Unobserved State Fragility and the Political Transfer Problem

Keywords: by Faisal Z. Ahmed & Eric Werker
  • 2012
  • Working Paper

Unobserved State Fragility and the Political Transfer Problem

By: Faisal Z. Ahmed and Eric Werker
Autocrats experiencing a windfall in unearned income may find it optimal to donate to other countries some of the windfall in order to make the state a less attractive prize to potential insurgents. We put forward a model that makes that prediction, as well as the... View Details
Keywords: International Finance; Non-Renewable Energy; International Relations; Economics
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Ahmed, Faisal Z., and Eric Werker. "Unobserved State Fragility and the Political Transfer Problem." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 13-009, July 2012.
  • August 2016
  • Case

VMD Medical Imaging Center

By: Susanna Gallani and Eva Labro
VMD Medical Imaging Center, a local independent provider of medical imaging services, is facing some important challenges. Despite efficiency improvements and cost cutting initiatives carried out over the past few years, their profitability is shrinking; their prices... View Details
Keywords: Costing; Death Spiral; Transfer Pricing; Activity Based Costing and Management; Competitive Strategy; Medical Specialties; Health Industry
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Gallani, Susanna, and Eva Labro. "VMD Medical Imaging Center." Harvard Business School Case 117-002, August 2016.
  • July 2021
  • Article

Material Sustainability Information and Stock Price Informativeness

By: Jody Grewal, Clarissa Hauptmann and George Serafeim
As part of the SEC’s revision of Regulation S-K, many investors proposed the mandatory disclosure of sustainability information in the form of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) data. However, progress is contingent on collecting evidence regarding which... View Details
Keywords: Voluntary Disclosure; Accounting Standards; Sustainability; Nonfinancial Information; Corporate Social Responsibility; Stock Price Informativeness; Synchronicity; Environmental Sustainability; Corporate Disclosure; Corporate Accountability; Stocks; Price; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Accounting; Standards
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Grewal, Jody, Clarissa Hauptmann, and George Serafeim. "Material Sustainability Information and Stock Price Informativeness." Journal of Business Ethics 171, no. 3 (July 2021): 513–544.
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Competition and Cost Accounting

By: V.G. Narayanan and Michael Smith
The central theme of Competition and Cost Accounting is that strategic considerations may make it desirable for a firm to have divisions and product managers internalize something other than their true costs. In the case of transfer prices, a high transfer price... View Details
Keywords: Cost Allocation; Transfer Pricing; Decentralization; Bertrand And Cournot Competition; Cost Accounting
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Narayanan, V.G., and Michael Smith. "Competition and Cost Accounting." Foundations and Trends® in Accounting 7, no. 3 (2012): 131–195. (Published: 11 April 2013.)
  • October 1988 (Revised December 1989)
  • Case

Siemens Electric Motor Works (B): Pricing Interdivisional Sales

Examines Siemens' policy for pricing products transferred between the manufacturing and sales divisions of their Electric Motor Works, where both are profit centers. It is unique in that the organizational linkage between the product costing system and the transfer... View Details
Keywords: Production; Price; Organizational Structure; Profit; Business Processes; Manufacturing Industry
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Wruck, Karen. "Siemens Electric Motor Works (B): Pricing Interdivisional Sales." Harvard Business School Case 189-090, October 1988. (Revised December 1989.)
  • 2025
  • Working Paper

Prices and Concentration: A U-shape? Theory and Evidence from Renewables

By: Michele Fioretti, Junnan He and Jorge Tamayo
We show that when firms compete via supply functions, transferring high-cost capacity to the largest, most efficient firm—thereby diversifying its production technologies while increasing concentration—can lower prices by prompting the leader to expand output and... View Details
Keywords: Diversified Production Technologies; Concentration Levels; Market Power; Supply Function Equilibrium; Hydropower; Energy Transition; Renewable Energy; Price; Competition; Supply and Industry; Energy Industry; Colombia
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Fioretti, Michele, Junnan He, and Jorge Tamayo. "Prices and Concentration: A U-shape? Theory and Evidence from Renewables." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 25-049, April 2025.
  • August 2015
  • Article

Pricing and Efficiency in the Market for IP Addresses

By: Benjamin Edelman and Michael Schwarz
We consider market rules for transferring IP addresses, numeric identifiers required by all computers connected to the Internet. Transfers usefully move resources from lowest- to highest-valuation networks, but transfers tend to cause socially costly growth in the... View Details
Keywords: Externalities; Intermediaries; Market Design; Internet; Web Services Industry; Telecommunications Industry
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Edelman, Benjamin, and Michael Schwarz. "Pricing and Efficiency in the Market for IP Addresses." American Economic Journal: Microeconomics 7, no. 3 (August 2015): 1–23. (lead article.)
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