a contract between a customer and a supplier whereby the supplier agrees to charge the customer the same price for the delivery of parts or services anywhere in the world. As globalization increases, more customers are likely to press their suppliers for global pricing contracts. Through such contracts suppliers can benefit by gaining access to new markets and growing their business, achieving economies of scale, developing strong relationships with customers, and thereby gaining a competitive advantage that is difficult for competitors to break. There are risks involved, too, for example, being in the middle of a conflict between a customer's head office and its local business units, or being tied to one customer when there are more attractive customers to serve.
Price is the amount of money the buyer gives to the seller in return of a particular product or service. A number of factors contribute towards formulation of an effective pricing strategy. When operating in a global environment, pricing becomes even more important. Some of the international market pricing strategies...
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Right kind of pricing goes a long way in determining the status of business organizations in the global market. Over the years, the advent of global giants has induced lot of competition. As a result, most organizations are trying their best to take the number one position. Thus, experts suggest...
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Pricing is the process that sets the final amount to be charged from a prospective buyer in return for a particular product or service. A large number of factors are taken into consideration while formulating the pricing strategy. Different kinds of pricing policies are required for products in different stages...
This paper reviews the economic case for patents and the potential for differential pricing to increase affordability of on-patent drugs in developing countries while preserving incentives for innovation. Differential pricing, based on Ramsey pricing principles, is the second best efficient way of paying for the global joint costs of pharmaceutical...
Price is the only element of the marketing mix that brings in revenue and affects the organization’s profits. Utmost care should be taken by the management to formulate the pricing strategy. Several factors have to be kept in mind while doing so. The objectives of pricing include profit maximization and...
Trends such as restructuring, alliances, and mergers and acquisitions have increased the importance of transfer pricing and have induced global pharmaceutical, medical devices, and life sciences companies to draw on the competencies and broad experience of transfer pricing professionals to formulate creative, value-added business solutions that address the unique needs...
From the executive summary: ‘Successfully pricing products and services is one of the biggest challenges sales and marketing professionals face in companies of all sizes. Convincing customers that they should pay the price is an even bigger challenge.’ Thus, an effective pricing strategy goes a long way in building an...
This paper demonstrates that quality-contingent pricing is a useful mechanism for mitigating the negative effects of quality uncertainty in e-commerce and IT services. A contingency pricing contract specifies a sequence of possible quality levels and corresponding prices. Examining the monopoly case, the paper explicates the critical role of private information...
Insurance companies have used reinsurance contracts to hedge themselves against losses from catastrophic events. Most commonly used reinsurance contract is excess of loss contract. This paper shows that during the last decade, the high level of worldwide catastrophe losses in terms of frequency and severity had a marked effect on...
Pricing is magic. They don't teach much about pricing in business schools because good pricing is one of those concepts that you recognize when you see it, but is hard to define. While there are some common pricing methods used by business planners to set pricing strategies for startup businesses,...
Telecommunications is the quintessential global business. As a result, it's difficult to find another industry on which transfer pricing has a bigger impact. Inappropriate transfer pricing policies can expose an organization to serious business risks which give rise to more than just the payment of additional taxes. Get the policies...
This article helps you to learn about common approaches to pricing and how to use pricing to stay ahead of the competition. It also explains various pricing strategies that you can use to stay a step or two ahead of your competition. Some of common pricing strategies like Profit-oriented pricing,...
This paper is devoted to pricing "hybrid" insurance and financial risk products by combining the financial option pricing method with the actuarial pricing method. It suggests that the price of contingent claims containing both hedgeable risk and unhedgeable risk should reflect the average cost of hedging, plus a risk premium...
This paper, commissioned as part of a series evaluating Global Health Partnerships GHPs, focuses on identifying the impact of structures embedded within GHPs on pricing and security of commodities that meet global health needs in developing countries. The paper identifies the market structure within which the different GHPs are operating,...
A finite reinsurance contract is a reinsurance contract by which risk is transferred to the reinsurer, but with risk transfer usually being limited in some way. Generally, finite reinsurance costs less than traditional reinsurance. Finite reinsurance contracts may also differ from other reinsurance products in term and pricing structure. Finite...
Telecommunications is the quintessential global business. As a result, it's difficult to find another industry on which transfer pricing has a bigger impact. Inappropriate transfer pricing policies can expose organization to serious business risks which give rise to more than just the payment of additional taxes. This report summarizes the...
The paper investigates the ability of several international asset pricing models to price the returns on 36 FTSE global industry portfolios. The models are the international capital asset pricing model ICAPM the ICAPM with exchange risks, and global two-factor and three-factor Fama-French models. While all of the models can correctly...
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