Bergen, Mark; Levy, Daniel; Ray, Sourav; Rubin, Paul H.; … - Department of Economics, Bar Ilan University - 2004
We study item-pricing laws (which require that each item in a store be individually marked with a price sticker) and examine and quantify their costs and benefits. On the cost side, we argue that item-pricing laws increase the retailers’ costs, forcing them to raise prices. We test this...