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Retail Pricing and Clearance Sales
Lazear, Edward P. - 1984
Sellers of new products are faced with having to guess demand conditions to set price appropriately. But sellers are able to adjust price over time and to learn from past mistakes. Additionally, it is not necessary that all goods be sold with certainty. It is sometimes better to set a high price...
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Sales and Consumer Inventory
Hendel, Igal - 2002
Temporary price reductions (sales) are common for many goods and naturally result in large increase in the quantity sold. We explore whether the data support the hypothesis that these increases are, at least partly, due to dynamic consumer behavior: at low prices consumers stockpile for future...
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Informational Rigidities and the Stickiness of Temporary Sales
Anderson, Eric - 2013
We use unique price data to study how retailers react to underlying cost changes. Temporary sales account for 95% of price changes in our data. Simple models would, therefore, suggest that temporary sales play a central role in price responses to cost shocks. We find, however, that, in response...
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Balance-of-payments adjustment policies: Japan, Germany, and the Netherlands
Michaely, Michael - 1968
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Country studies
Blanchard, Olivier (contributor) - 1994
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The industrial organization and regulation of the securities industry
Lo, Andrew W. (ed.) - 1996
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The Changing Structure of Wages in the US and Germany : What Explains the Differences?
Beaudry, Paul - 2000
Over the last twenty years the wage-education relationships in the US and Germany have evolved very differently, while … files from the PSID (US) and the GSOEP (Germany), we demonstrate how factor movements within these countries are associated … capital over the 1979-96 period, while Germany accumulated factors in a more balanced manner …
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Low Wage Services : Interpreting the US - German Difference
Freeman, Richard B. - 2000
-wage services in the US and Germany. We find a clear low-wage service jobs deficit' in Germany but this is not due to excessively …
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Skill Compression, Wage Differentials and Employment : Germany vs. the US
Freeman, Richard B. - 2000
Germany's more compressed wage structure is taken by many analysts as the main cause of the German-US difference in job … creation. We find that the US has a more dispersed level of skills than Germany but even adjusted for skills, Germany has a …
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Expectations Hypotheses Tests
Bekaert, Geert - 2000
We investigate the Expectations Hypotheses of the term structure of interest rates and of the foreign exchange market using vector autoregressive methods for the U.S. dollar, Deutsche mark, and British pound interest rates and exchange rates. In addition to standard Wald tests, we formulate...
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