price setting

Deciding the cost

Price setting is the process of determining what to charge for goods or services.

Businesses engage in price setting based on costs, competition, and market demand.

The term often appears in discussions of antitrust law, where competitors who coordinate their price setting engage in illegal collusion: The companies were accused of price setting to eliminate competition.

Related

consumer preferences · marginal cost · bundling · elasticity · perfect competition · market segmentation · MSRP · markup · opportunity cost · sunk cost · exchange rates · loss leader · bottom dollar · cartel

Opposites
price determination method

price settingprice negotiation

Discussing terms of payment

haggling · bargaining · negotiation · bidding · auction

market control

price settingcompetitive pricing

Prices set against competitors

supply and demand · market forces · invisible hand

pricing flexibility

price settingdynamic pricing

Rates that fluctuate automatically

surge pricing · price adjustment

Family

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