common factors. While several macroeconomic variables do have some relationship with different risky assets‚ the APT postulates that the pricing of risky assets depends only on the set of variables whose influence is felt significantly by all risky assets together. This set of variables is known as the common factors of the APT.” (Otuteye 1998) An arbitrage pricing theory is basically a theory that is copied from an issue model‚ using alteration or expansion and arbitrage arguments. This theory explains
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P roc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA Vol. 94‚ pp. 4229–4232‚ April 1997 Economic Sciences The capital-asset-pricing model and arbitrage pricing theory: A unification M. A LI K HAN* AND YENENG SUN†‡ *Department of Economics‚ Johns Hopkins University‚ Baltimore‚ MD 21218; †Department of Mathematics‚ National University of Singapore‚ Singapore 119260; and ‡Cowles Foundation‚ Yale University‚ New Haven‚ CT 06520 Communicated by Paul A. Samuelson‚ Massachusetts Institute of Technology‚ Cambridge
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Driving value through pricing: Strategies adopted by Managers in price Sensitive and fierce Competitive Markets Introduction Buffett told the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission in an interview that “If you’ve got the power to raise prices without losing business to a competitor‚ you’ve got a very good business. And if you have to have a prayer session before raising the price by 10 percent‚ then you’ve got a terrible business”. Yet pricing has been neglected area in many hospitality organizations
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Finance and Economics ISSN 1450-2887 Issue 40 (2010) © EuroJournals Publishing‚ Inc. 2010 http://www.eurojournals.com/finance.htm Analyzing Indian Transfer Pricing Regulations: A Case Study Monica Singhania Associate Professor‚ Faculty of Management Studies (FMS)‚ University of Delhi‚ India E-mail: monica@fms.edu Abstract The Indian Transfer Pricing regulations have been enacted with a view to provide a statutory framework which can lead to computation of reasonable‚ fair and equitable profit and tax
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PART A- INTRODUCTION Company background Giorgio Armani‚ a designer born on July 11‚ 1934‚ in Piacenza‚ Italy. He using his own name to create brand and be the top in fashion world. Giorgio Armani is one of the most celebrated and influential designers Italy has ever produced. But it was only by chance that he broke into the fashion industry in the Sixties‚ after studied into medicine Milan University. Italian executive Giorgio Armani is an iconic clothing designer who has expanded his empire to
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total product mix where pricing is difficult because the various products have related demand and costs and face different degrees of competition. There are five different product mix pricing strategies that can be used for a firm. These are such as the product line pricing‚ optional-product pricing‚captive-product pricing‚ by-product pricing and lastly‚ product bundle pricing. (Kotler‚et al.‚2009) In this case‚ Payless’s used two different type of product mix pricing strategies to match their
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Table of Contents: The UK Telecommunication Market Industry Analysis___________________1 PESTEL Analysis of the Industry_____________________________________1 * Political factors ______________________________________________1 * Economic factors_____________________________________________1 * Social factors ________________________________________________2 * Technological factors _________________________________________2 * Environmental factors ________________________________________2
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Book Review: ‘Why does popcorn cost so much at the movies: and other pricing puzzles’ by Richard B. McKenzie ‘Why popcorn costs so much at the movies; and other pricing puzzles’ 1by Richard B. McKenzie2 explains the economics behind the pricing in the markets we are around everyday and the public help to generate by helping the circular flow of income. McKenzie applies logic and analyses the data he finds although there are some major flaws in his book that he does not explore on which means it
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BRAND IDENTITY- The Concept Brand management starts from the concept of brand identity. Brand identity has been defined as a word or a logo‚ related to a product‚ that at the beginning has no sense and then‚ year after year‚ it acquires a meaning determined by the products and the communications of the past. Firms can’t manage directly the sense behind their brands but they have to manage it through brand identity as perceived by the market. While brand image is a reception concept‚ identity is on
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Market Analysis UK Aftershave Market Armani Code Aftershave Products It is clear that in 2014 men are more fashion and image conscious evidenced by the UK aftershave market being worth a staggering £350 million. This market is oligopolistic in the fact that it is not solely dominated by merely one company many of the top companies producing aftershave also are well established in the clothing market such as Armani. Below is a marketing analysis for Armani with relation to the aftershave market
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