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 …-State area of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut. The Tri-States offer a unique setting—a natural experiment—to study item-pricing …

channels; post-1989, government interventions are minimal, but private actors at intermediary, processing and retailing levels …

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 … of the results for the asymmetric pricing, distribution channels and cost of price adjustment literatures, and …

This paper develops a model of pricing and advertising in a matching environment with capacity constrained sellers …

how this responsive pricing puts control of network service back where it belongs: with the users. … in the form of a variable price for network service is a workable tool to aid network operators in controlling Internet …

We show that returns policies do increase manufacturer profitability by attenuating price competition between retailers … the manufacturer's profit are weaker when retailing is a duopoly than when retailing is a monopoly. This suggests that … returns policies serve both to dampen competition and resolve demand uncertainty. …