"It is not the length of the price in digits that determines how difficult it is to memorize, but rather how many syllables this price has when read, " explains the research by Professor Calder and academics at two other institutions.
The Flash-based tool in one example showed a map of London, and with the touch of a sliding scale you see areas of the city where housing is a certain price and commute times are a specific length.
As recently as the Consumer Electronics Show in January, manufacturers were reluctant to even put a price tag on 4K TVs with a diagonal length of 65 inches or less.
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For example, a government official gets a kickback from a contractor who, as it turns out, performed work for the city at the same price as if it were an arms-length negotiated deal.
By discussing financial markets at such length, Mr Greenspan has created the impression that share-price movements are a yardstick by which to measure monetary policy.
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They devote considerable effort, and not a little ingenuity, to discovering the implicit price of many things that are not traded directly in arm's-length markets.
The data included all residential land transfers and all arms length transfers--a sale where the buyer and seller are not the same and price is greater than 3, 000.
In order to establish strong evidence of an arms-length negotiation, buyers tend to make an offer a little lower than the ultimate takeover price to allow for adjustments later, especially when they own a piece of the target anyway.
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In this scenario the trader is happy to pocket the rich premium available on the options given the length of time to expiration and increase in implied volatility on top of the sharp rise in the price of the underlying.
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It is to avoid such oversight that companies usually leave room for the price to rise in their own Kabuki-dance negotiations to show it was an arms-length transaction.
Other factors that matter include the length of time that a battery can hold its power, how often it can be recharged, its price, how easily they can be recycled, and, of course, how often they explode.
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