And when prices were falling steeply, many airlines found themselves locked into a "hedge": a contract to buy fuel at a specific price, designed to protect against short-term volatility but meaning some carriers paid twice the going rate for a while.
When it was comfortably above $100£6565) per barrel, making the case for a carbon floor price – designed to raise the cost of pollution and make clean investment more attractive – was vulnerable to the argument that while the economy was still ticking over, the extra cost may be critically damaging.
The quoted price is the price communicated to a shopper; it may be the posted price, or it may be a low-ball price designed to rope you in and move the process along until it is too late for you to back out.
Mr. Price designed a picturesque if ungainly facade, rich in carved detail and peculiar ornamentation.
A price system designed to improve average occupancy may not improve parking availability, and thus may not reduce cruising.
On Fashion Project, however, items resell for over 7 times more than a thrift store, on average – a price point designed to help encourage more donations.
I propose a bias-corrected non-parametric estimator of the covariation matrix of log security prices, designed as a convex combination of two realized kernels.
The American Booksellers Association, for instance, recently sent a letter to the Department of Justice urging that it investigate the price war as an example of "illegal predatory pricing" designed to "win control of the market for hardcover bestsellers," with disastrous consequences for bookstores around the country.
While its profit margins have never been made public, it's generally believed that the company is near break even or slightly unprofitable serving its merchants, a pricing decision designed to quickly expand the company's business.
