Analyse of the effects of price transparency in Europe, with particular reference to the car industry
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Analyse of the effects of price transparency in Europe, with particular reference to the car industry What is price transparency? Price transparency is a property of efficient markets, and refers to complete comparability of prices for similar goods, across different market segments. It may be looked at in terms of lowering the transaction costs of using markets. As, a consequence, markets should be used more heavily and the goods and services purchased should become a better 'fit' to purchasers' information. Lack of price transparency was common before modern economies become more information intensive, or knowledge based. Lack of transparency was preferences. As a result, prices could vary significantly across market supported by factors like tax structures, distributor margins, and consumer segments, especially when they were partially dispersed, or in other ways (e.g. culturally, socially or nationally) separated. A major factor encouraging the demise of non-transparency in pricing has been the development of...

