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Icing: The forming or depositing of ice on an object.

Two-Tiered Pricing: Any farm program system under which commodities grown for domestic use are supported at one level and those grown for export markets at another, lower level. The peanut price support program . . . View Full Definition

Arbitrage-Free Option-Pricing Models: Yield curve option-pricing models.

Arbitrage Pricing Theory (APT): An alternative model to the capital asset pricing model developed by Stephen Ross and based purely on arbitrage arguments. The APT implies that there are multiple risk factors that need to b . . . View Full Definition

Icing The Puck: When a player from one team shoots the puck from across the red line to and across the oppositionís goal line and the puck is then touched by a player from the other team, this is icing. Whe . . . View Full Definition

Cost-Based Pricing: Where a company bases its pricing policy solely on the costs of manufacturing rather than current market conditions.

Asset Pricing Model: A model for determining the required or expected rate of return on an asset. Related: Capital asset pricing model and arbitrage pricing theory.

Binomial Option Pricing Model: An option pricing model in which the underlying asset can assume one of only two possible, discrete values in the next time period for each value that it can take on in the preceding time period.

Reinvoicing Center: A central financial subsidiary an MNC uses to reduce transaction exposure by billing all home country exports in the home currency and reinvoicing to each operating affiliate in that affilia . . . View Full Definition

Classified Pricing: The pricing system of federal milk marketing orders, under which milk processors pay into a pool for fluid grade (Grade A) milk: its value is based on how the milk ultimately is used. Milk u . . . View Full Definition