Levy, Daniel; Barsky, Robert; Bergen, Mark; Dutta, Shantanu - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2001
In this paper we investigate the size of markups for nationally branded products sold in the U.S. retail grocery industry. Using scanner data from a large Midwestern supermarket chain, we compute several measures of upper and lower bounds on markup ratios for over 230 nationally branded products...