Heterogeneity in bank pricing policies: The Czech evidence

Of the Czech National Bank

With EU accession looming, a new chapter has been opened in the debate about the candidate countries’ exchange rate strategies. A heated discussion has arisen in relation to ERM2 membership. The experience of the present eurozone members with ERM/ERM2 membership shows that none of them faced a significant challenge in the two-year “evaluation” period in terms of the exchange rate stability conv...

heterogeneity within the orientalist discourse: representation of the orient in womens travelogues and mens paintings

from 1950s onward, new theories and critical approaches burgeoned across humanities. these theories were context-oriented; as a result, the analysis of discursive practices gained significance. thus, social, political, historical and cultural discourses that have been hitherto marginalized and considered inferior to literary texts, were introduced as important texts to be analyzed by critics. o...

Pricing policies

The Impact of Household Level Heterogeneity in Reference Price Effects on Optimal Retailer Pricing Policies

The field of marketing has witnessed substantial improvement in modeling household level heterogeneity. However, relatively little has been written about how modeling household heterogeneity translates into better marketing decisions. In this paper, we study the role of incorporating household heterogeneity in reference price effects on a retailer’s pricing policy. In order to study the impact ...

Pricing Bank Stocks: The Contribution of Bank Examinations

A growing number of commentators advocate enhancing the role of market discipline in the banking industry. They argue that if private sector stakeholders can discourage excessive risk-taking and encourage safe banking practices through the pricing of bank securities, then the extensive regulatory framework currently in place may be unnecessarily burdensome. In the wake of recent studies conclud...