Using a mobile app, the deliveryperson can immediately adjust prices to match or beat the competitor.
Ichoose of Dallas and other shops are developing ever-shrewder software that lets online merchants scan rival sites, adjust prices on the fly and steal customers, all without leaving a clue.
In the event that relative prices have to adjust, forcing flexible prices to move causes no great distortion, because they adjust easily.
They could let the markets force companies to adjust their prices and their stranded-costs policies.
The equity market can only be efficient when active investors and portfolio managers continually adjust security prices based on new information.
To do so, the bank would have to negotiate with its traders, at the risk that they would use the information to adjust their prices.
But as soon as people in the market get wind that a big trade is under way, they adjust their prices to take advantage of it.
Because most American Bitcoin vendors automatically adjust their prices to the current dollar-Bitcoin exchange rate, Bitcoin-denominated prices would quickly fall to reflect the new, higher Bitcoin price.
When prices adjust and the economy recalculates, the malinvestments are revealed and liquidated.
While that might be a better barometer of how we adjust to higher prices and lower wages, it isn't so generous to retirees.
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Users always seem to adjust to higher prices, but the global economy has limits to how much shock it can absorb at any one time.
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He expects more acts to adjust their ticket prices and venue sizes, while audience members will continue to wait longer to purchase their tickets and remain unwilling to shell out for just anyone.
The only catch we can see -- aside from the issue of accuracy -- is that by the time these processors actually become available rival Intel may well have seen fit to adjust its own prices.
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Gas prices should adjust because of a change in the forces driving the underlying supply of or demand for oil, not because stock prices are at a historic high.
Prices should adjust so that total expected returns on gilts of all maturities are the same.
Because all prices would adjust to that total quantity of money.
This allows wages and prices to adjust downward, giving depressed regions a competitive advantage that can attract new companies and thus smooth out regional disparities.
So the people in charge of hospital prices simply adjust the charges every year, typically raising the price some set amount above the previous year.
In Hong Kong's efficient markets, prices then adjust with astonishing speed.
Prices do not adjust immediately, so bringing down inflation will cost output and jobs.
Meantime, the U.S. housing market is still sagging, as it surely must if prices are to adjust to post-bubble reality.
Wages and prices have to adjust to something like their pre-bubble trends, Mr. Connolly says, to make these economies competitive again.
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One odd but significant consequence of a hike in the VAT will likely be seen in the market for inflation-protected securities that adjust payouts based on consumer prices.
In the short term, though, prices are slow to adjust, interest rates fall, and so does the currency.
You are getting paid very little and your bond coupons, unlike stock dividends, will not adjust over time to reflect rising prices.
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