Third-Degree Price Discrimination in the Presence of Asymmetric Consumption Externalities

In this paper, we consider third-degree price discrimination in two markets in the presence of asymmetric consumption externalities; we establish that under plausible conditions, a firm reduces its price in the market with low price elasticity of demand. The firm can increase its profits by reducing the price for these consumers and enlarging the demand for other consumers, provided that positive consumption externalities exist. Moreover, we show that third-degree price discrimination enhances not only the firm’s profit but also total consumer surplus.

The Role of Price in the Behavior and Purchase Decisions of Compulsive Buyers

The present research examines the relationship between consumers’ tendencies to buy compulsively and their response to price based on a survey of customers of an Internet clothing retailer. The research findings suggest that compulsive buyers possess greater knowledge of store prices and are more brand conscious and prestige sensitive in comparison with non-compulsive buyers. Moreover, compulsive buyers derive greater transaction value from price promotions and are more price conscious and sale prone than non-compulsive buyers.     

The Role of Virtues in the Framing of Decisions

This article explores links between the modern theory of rational choice and ethics. Ethics allows us to answer an unsolved question in modern decision theory: the structuring problem in decisions. Such a problem cannot be solved coming from the principle of expected utility. This principle can solve the problem of ‚choosing’ among given alternatives, but does not establish which alternatives should be taken into account in decision. In order to understand the structuring problem, the act of ‚choosing’ has to be completed with three human acts: operating, predicting and evaluating. At the same time, the subjective criteria of rational choice – probability and utility – have to be completed with three objective criteria: efficiency, truth and goodness. Utility is a subjective value of an alternative considered in relation to another. Efficiency, truth and goodness are objective qualities of the joint alternatives in relation to the reality: the real operating possibilities of the agent, the real possibilities of his environment and the true good produced. So, the rule that guarantees a decision to be optimal would be: “do that which most certainly maximises our preferences, according to real operative resources, true knowledge and the right will”. However, this rule cannot be applied without the development of virtues, which could be seen as the main moral competences in decision-making.     

Memory-Based Store Price Judgments: The Role of Knowledge and Shopping Experience

This paper investigates the processes underlying consumers’ memory-based store price judgments. The numerosity heuristic implies that the greater the number of relatively lower priced products at a store that consumers can recall, the lower will be their overall price image of the store. That is, people use the number of recalled low-price products to judge the overall store price image. We show that this expectation holds only for knowledgeable consumers. Instead, less knowledgeable consumers use the ease with which low-price products are recalled (i.e., the availability heuristic) as a cue to make store price judgments. Therefore, the fewer low-price products they recall, the easier their recall task, and the lower their price perceptions of the store.Field studies using different manipulations tested and confirmed these predictions. Managerial implications for retailers are offered. Theoretical implications for behavioral price perceptions, memory-based judgments, and the use of heuristic cues are also discussed.     

The Sensitivity of the General Price Level to Changes in the Price of Crude Oil

There are many direct and indirect effects of changing crude oil prices on the inflation rate, so it is not surprising that there are different views about the resulting effects on the general price level and also on other aspects of the general economy. This study, estimates the direct and indirect effects of oil price changes on the economy-wide rate of inflation, which then has effects on spending and producing decisions. However, in this forum, we do not try to estimate the full indirect effects on the level of economic activity, such as effects on real GDP. JEL Classification E310, E370     

住宅价格长期稳定上涨的理论界限

在“住宅零空关”假设下,住宅的理论租金和理论价格均由宏观经济发展水平和住宅存量共同决定。合理的住宅租金上涨率等于国民收入增长率减住宅存量增长率。合理的住宅价格增长率则等于市场贴现率减去该时点住宅理论租金与住宅理论价格之比率,超过这个界限的住宅价格上涨均被看作含有泡沫成分。     

Unintended Consequences: How Suppliers Compensate for Price Concessions and the Role of Organizational Justice in Buyer‐Supplier Relations

“You get what you pay for” is one of life's lessons that predominates in purchasing decisions individuals make in their personal lives. The results of this study suggest this lesson should also prevail among management when price‐related purchasing decisions in businesses are being made. An evaluation of over 1,700 purchasing instances across seven years of a longitudinal panel data set collected from Tier 1 production suppliers to the six major North American automotive Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs), Chrysler, Ford, General Motors, Honda, Nissan, and Toyota, found that suppliers compensate for price concessions and price reduction pressure from the OEM in the year following the concession, by reducing product quality, service support, and R&D expenditures associated with goods provided to the OEM. This industry is particularly relevant because it is highly adversarial, yet at the same time reliant on interdependence. The results show that supplier price concessions granted to an OEM led to compensatory supplier behaviors of reduced quality and R&D expenditures toward that OEM. Further, the results suggest that the organizational justice dimensions of distributive justice, procedural justice, interpersonal justice, and informational justice can ameliorate negative supplier compensatory activities. A buyer–supplier relational environment that engenders organizational justice tactics such as open and honest communication with suppliers provides suppliers the expectation of an acceptable return on business over the long term, provides help to suppliers to reduce costs, and builds supplier trust of the OEM had generally positive effects on quality, service, and R&D expenditures. From a management perspective, these results indicate there is a very real risk versus reward issue associated with pressuring suppliers for price reductions.     

我国股票市场涨跌幅限制的作用机制及其影响因素

文章在现有文献研究的基础上引入公司治理水平,建立比例logist模型,区分涨幅和跌幅限制、牛市和熊市的不同情况来研究中国股票市场涨跌幅的作用机制及其影响因素.为了得到可靠结果,模型采用GMM估计,处理了异方差和内生性问题.实证结果表明:系统风险、非系统风险与流动性越大,对股票达到涨跌停板的影响就越大;公司治理结构越好,对股票撞击涨跌幅限制的影响就越小;在牛市与熊市期间涨跌幅限制影响因素的作用具有较大差别.本文研究结果为监管机构因类、适时地调整涨跌幅限制幅度提供了依据.     

关于股权流通对价会计处理问题的探讨

股权流通对价在现有的会计制度下很难找到合理的处理方法。目前对股权分置,改革非流通股股东支付的股权流通对价的会计处理,应坚持股权流通对价、不让上市公司的所有者权益受损并与股权流通对价会计核算相一致的原则,在“长期股权投资”科目下增设“股权流通对价”明细科目,用来专门核算股权分置改革支付的股权流通对价的增减变化。     

The Role of Decision Importance and the Salience of Alternatives in Determining the Consistency between Consumers' Attitudes and Decisions

This research examines how the importance of a consumer decision influences attitude-decision consistency and choice in decision contexts that contain versus do not contain specified alternatives. Results demonstrate that decision importance moderates attitude-decision consistency when alternatives are not specified, but not when alternatives are specified. These results, in conjunction with the time participants devote to choice, suggest that importance plays a larger role in attitude-decision consistency when alternatives are unspecified versus specified because importance leads to greater effort in generation of alternatives when alternatives are unspecified (an unnecessary task when alternatives are specified in context). Implications for promotion are discussed.     

测算价格贸易条件指数的困境及出路

我国学者运用帕氏公式测算我国价格贸易条件指数时经常得到大相径庭的结果,笔者认为这是由我国海关统计资料的数据缺陷造成的。文章提出采用环比-定基两步法测算价格贸易条件指数:第一步,采用环比的方法用帕氏公式测算每年与上年相比的进出口价格指数;第二步,用定基的方法以某一年为基期进行转换计算,测算出各年度与基期相比的进出口价格指数,然后用相同基期的出口价格指数除以进口价格指数测算价格贸易条件指数。通过环比-定基两步法可有效解决测算我国价格贸易条件指数的困境。     

基于相空间重构技术的国际原油价格时序特征

由于国际原油市场的复杂性,结构性预测方法很难实现准确的国际原油价格预测。因此,通过原油价格的时间序列,分析原油市场随时间变化的历史行为和规律,建立时间序列预测模型成为原油价格预测的又一重要研究方向。在建立原油价格时间序列预测模型之前,必须掌握原油价格时间序列的特征,才能选择合适的原油价格时间序列预测方法。     

美国《统一商法典》价格待定条款的价值——兼论对中国立法的启示

现代商业模式的转变对商法提出了新的要求,传统商法中一些较为僵硬的规定已经成为阻碍贸易发展的因素,不能够适应商业发展的新要求。文章评析了美国《统一商法典》价格待定条款在适应现代商业模式转变的需要、尊重契约自由原则、实现实质正义、公平与促进贸易发展方面的价值。并通过法经济学分析了其存在所依据的经济基础。结合国际统一合同法的发展趋势,建议我国合同法对此方面加以完善,进而与国际接轨。     

要素价格变动、技术创新效率偏向与劳动收入份额

基于诱发创新理论检验了要素价格变动对技术创新效率偏向与劳动收入份额变动的影响效应,研究发现要素相对价格变动产生了技术创新效率偏向。在生产要素互补条件下,技术创新效率偏向资本要素时,劳动收入份额趋于下降;技术创新效率偏向劳动要素时,劳动收入份额趋于提高。进一步研究发现,中国1978-2017年总体技术效率处于劳动增进型演化路径,但1978-2004年期间存在技术创新偏向资本效率阶段,这解释了劳动收入份额转折的现象,同时也验证了要素价格诱发创新理论在中国的适用性。     

我国钢材期货对现货价格波动的影响

我国钢材期货和现货价格波动存在正相关性,即使价格短期出现分歧,但从长期来看也会趋向于一致;钢材期货表现出了一定的价格发现功能;上一期现货价格的波动会引起当期期货价格和现货价格的同方向变动,且影响远大于同期期货价格波动和前一期期货价格和现货价格波动的影响;钢材期货的上市不仅不是钢材现货市场价格大幅波动的原因,而且在一定程度上对现货价格的大幅波动起到了抑制作用.钢材期货的推出,无论是对涉钢企业规避价格风险,还是对钢材市场平稳发展及稳定钢材价格,都具有一定的积极意义.     

Explaining the Role of Perceived Risk,Knowledge, Price,and Cost in Dry Fish Consumption Within the Theory of Planned Behavior

ABSTRACT

The general purpose of this study is to explore the influence of perceived risk, knowledge, price, and cost of dry fish consumption in Bangladesh using the general framework from the theory of planned behavior (TPB). The field experiments were performed in Bangladesh with a convenience sample of 558 respondents. Multiple regression analysis was used to investigate the relationship among perceived risk, knowledge, price, and cost and TPB constructs. The findings showed that attitude, norms, and procedural knowledge emerge as the key determinants of intention, whereas intention, attitude, norms, and perceived risk have effects on the dry fish consumption frequency. Perceived behavioral control, price, and cost had no significant effect on intention and consumption behavior. The proposed TPB and the extended model both fit the data well and proved the expectations of this study in a promising way. The study found that people are more concerned about potential long-term risk to their family and others. Therefore, management attention should focus on reducing risks which consumers may face through producing safe and hazard-free dry fish.     

棉花生产量、贸易量变动与国际棉价波动的实证分析——以棉花主产国和贸易国为例

本文运用葛兰杰因果关系检验法对国际市场棉花价格与世界主要棉花生产国的棉花生产量和主要棉花贸易国①的棉花贸易量之间的因果关系进行了检验,并对存在因果关系的变量进行了回归分析,研究结果表明:国际市场棉花价格与世界主要棉花生产国的棉花生产量之间存在反向变动关系,而与世界主要棉花贸易国的棉花贸易量之间的关系不确定。对棉花进口需求量较大的国家而言,其在棉花的国际市场上并不遵循一般意义上的定价规律。     

The Tunisia Wheat Market in the Context of World Price Volatility: A Stochastic Partial Equilibrium Approach

Food security is a key objective of agricultural and food policy in Tunisia. The 2007–2008 food crisis highlighted the negative impacts of price volatility on international markets both in terms of food insecurity and budget exposure. Tunisian food subsidy expenditures ranged from $180 million to $710 million in 2006–2010, so volatile world prices meant volatile subsidy costs. Moreover, cereal production in Tunisia still has much instability due to climate conditions, which also influences imports and, consequently, subsidy expenditures. This study applies a structural model to conduct stochastic analyses of trade and policy impacts on food security and budget expenditures in the Tunisian wheat market. The methodology disaggregates durum wheat and soft wheat markets and generates projections of import prices of durum wheat and soft wheat, using projections of world prices provided by the Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute at University of Missouri (FAPRI-MU). The key innovation is the generated stochastic analyses of subsidy costs based on stochastic world price projections and stochastic domestic wheat yields based on historic yield variances. The analysis highlights the sensitivity of subsidy costs to world prices, volumes imported and domestic production, so that alternative policy tools can be considered.     

温州金融改革对参股银行公司股价的影响——以新潮实业为例

新潮实业作为上海证券交易所A股上市公司,其参股的银行由于参与小额贷款公司业务,在温州金融改革过程中,对新潮实业带来了显著的影响。从定性与定量两个维度的分析表明:金融改革对参股银行公司的股价具有短期的刺激推动效果。其原因,一方面是股民期待金融改革以后未来经济走势向好,认为未来中小企业的迅速发展势必会引包括中小额贷款业务在内的银行业务的繁荣;另一方面是由于我国A股市场存在着高度的投机性,部分股民进行短线投机操作而为。     

The theory of storage in the crude oil futures market,the role of financial conditions

This study examines the impacts of inventory and financial instability on the basis of the crude oil market. The results show that, first, the basis rises with inventory, and this effect is higher during low inventory regimes. This validates the theory of storage in the crude oil market. Second, the basis rises with financial instability, and this effect is higher during turbulent regimes. These results warn the oil market participants that, to make decisions based on the basis variation, traditionally known as a signal of scarcity or abundance, the underlying cause of the variation has to be considered.