A Pricing Rule for Affiliate Transactions: Room for Consensus

✍ Scribed by Kenneth W. Costello

• Book ID: 104374798
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1998
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 268 KB
• Volume: 11
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1040-6190
• DOI: 10.1016/s1040-6190(98)00101-8

✦ Synopsis

Because it conforms to politically acceptable notions of "fairness," state and federal regulators have relied heavily on the concept of fully distributed cost to govern affiliate transactions. This should be leavened by alternative transfer-pricing measures to balance the goals of economic efficiency and fairness.