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Productivity in Australia's wholesale and retail trade

Johnston, Alan; Porter, Darrell; Cobbold, Trevor; … - EconWPA - 2001

Examines the productivity performance of the wholesale and retail trade sectors in light of their significant contribution to Australia’s record productivity performance in the 1990s. Fundamental changes in the nature and operations of wholesale trade, in particular, have brought marked...

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"The Real Thing:" Nominal Price Rigidity of the Nickel Coke, 1886-1959

Levy, Daniel; Young, Andrew - EconWPA - 2004

We report that the price of a 6.5oz Coke was 5¢ from 1886 until 1959. Thus, we are documenting a nominal price rigidity that lasted more than 70 years! The case of Coca-Cola is particularly interesting because during the 70-year period there were substantial changes in the soft drink industry...

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Explicit Evidence on an Implicit Contract

Young, Andrew; Levy, Daniel - EconWPA - 2005

We offer the first direct evidence of an implicit contract in a goods market. The evidence we offer comes from the market for Coca-Cola. We demonstrate that the Coca-Cola Company left a substantial amount of written evidence of its implicit contract with its consumers—a very explicit form of...

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Asymmetric Wholesale Pricing: Theory and Evidence

Ray, Sourav; Chen, Haipeng; Bergen, Mark; Levy, Daniel - EconWPA - 2005

Asymmetric pricing is the phenomenon where prices rise more readily than they fall. We articulate, and provide empirical support for, a theory of asymmetric pricing in wholesale prices. In particular, we show how wholesale prices may be asymmetric in the small but symmetric in the large, when...

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Measuring Customer Value Gaps: An Empirical Study in Mexican Retail Market

Rajagopal - EconWPA - 2005

The role of customer value has been largely recognized over time by the firms as an instrument towards stimulating market share and profit optimization. The customer values for a new product of firm in competitive markets are shaped more by habits, reinforcement effects, and situational...

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Measuring China's Fiscal Policy Stance

Dullien, Sebastian - EconWPA - 2005

deficit or cyclically adjusted budget deficits is misleading in the case of China, since a lot of what usually would be …-cyclical in China over the past two decades. …

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China's Changing Competitive Position: Lessons from a Unit-Labor- Cost-Based REER

Dullien, Sebastian - EconWPA - 2005

This paper calculates a unit labor-cost based real effective exchange rate for China for the period 1987-2002. It …

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China and Neo-liberal Constitutionalism

Killion, M. Ulric - EconWPA - 2004

This article discusses the probability of growth of neoliberalism in modern China and its implications for Chinese … constitutionalism. A China polity under the vision of a neo-liberal regime engenders problems of prescribing a legal system and … historicity of Western liberalism and China's ontological base in tradition, being Confucianism. The historic excesses and abuses …

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Optimal Monetary Policy Rules in A Simple Stochastic Macro Model: China's Evidence

Wang, Shengzu; Guo, Shen - EconWPA - 2005

In this paper we apply a simple macro model to explore and evaluate certain optimal monetary policy rules for China …'s economy. To be more consistent with the central bank (the People's Bank of China)'s behaviour, we use money supply as a …

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Monitoring Costs and the Mode of International Investment

Lin, Chu-Chia S.; Png, Ivan P.L. - EconWPA - 2002

direct investments in Mainland China provide robust support to the hypothesis. A project that was located 1000 kilometers …

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