Theoretical work on price-setting behavior focuses on the single-product case while, in reality, a single price-setter sells many products. The authors use retail store-level multiproduct pricing data to learn about price dynamics. They find that, while the timing of a product's price changes is...

Early entry has the advantage of higher revenues per unit of output early on. Late entry has the benefit of learning from the experience of earlier entrants, and hence lower production costs. The advantages are balanced off in a continuous-time, perfect-foresight equilibrium. Competition...