We provide novel systematic cross-country evidence that the link between domestic labour markets and CPI inflation has … domestic labour cost changes to core CPI inflation decreased from 0.25 in the 1980s to just 0.02 in the 2010s, while the … EMEs around the turn of the millennium, which signals increased competition and market contestability. …

The effects of (private, small-scale) piracy on the pricing behavior of producers of information goods are studied … within a unified model of vertical differentiation. Although information goods are assumed to be perfectly horizontally … that competition drives prices up and reduces total surplus. …

This paper studies how a firm should make pricing and transparency decisions when consumers care about supply chain … characteristics. We first show how preferences that account for price and unit cost constrain the firm’s pricing power and profit …

promotions during the first two weeks of the lockdown, and the presence of local pricing retail chains (LP) competing with … uniform (national) pricing retail chains (UP). We decompose the price changes into the regular price, the frequency, and the … heterogeneity in price response also suggests that the price increase was not driven by cost inflation. …

strategically distorted information. This ambiguity about the type of spy gives rise to a non-standard signaling problem where both … sender and receiver of messages have private information and the sender has a chance to make an unobserved move. Whereas …

’ collusive behaviour in a within-subjects setting. In the first game, subjects have no information on other players, whereas they …