The Role of Transfer Price for Coordination and Control within a Firm

被引：55

作者：

Yeom S. ^{[1
]}

Balachandran K.R. ^{[2
]}

Ronen J. ^{[2
]}

机构：

[1] Stern School of Business, New York, NY 10003

来源：

Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting | 2000年 / 14卷 / 2期

关键词：

Coordination; Information asymmetry; Moral hazard; Transfer price;

D O I：

10.1023/A:1008355713528

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摘要：

This paper explores the role of transfer prices as coordinating mechanisms within a firm. Three cases (full information; pure adverse selection; adverse selection and moral hazard) are analyzed and compared to show how quantity and effort are affected as assumptions on observability are progrssively relaxed. The analysis of the second case, having two observable variables, identifies the necessary and sufficient condition under which "the local approach" can be applied. The third case is reinterpreted as transfer prices in a direct delegation setting. The main results are: First, the optimal transfer price is standard average cost plus. Second, it is not necessarily decreasing in quantity unlike the downward sloping demand function. © 2000 Kluwer Academic Publishers,.

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页码：161 / 192

页数：31

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