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were able to adjust prices continuously; prices determined how the firms were ranked and listed (lowest price listed first … model of price adjustment, characterizing the factors driving price changes and measuring how much these factors differ … across firms (i.e., strategy heterogeneity). We find evidence of managerial inattention as a cause of the price inertia …
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The New Trade Theory predicts that international trade lowers prices for consumers and expands the choices available to them. This study shows that both predictions may no longer hold once adjustments in the retail sector are taken into account. I present a new model of retailing in general...
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Rapid growth in e-commerce has altered the ability of jurisdictions to enforce commodity taxes on a destination basis. This results in different effective tax rates depending on the way in which goods and services are purchased and the characteristics of both the products and the sellers. We...
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can price-discriminate consumers. The data broker can strategically choose any segment of the consumer demand (information … structure) to sell to firms that implement third-degree price-discrimination. We show that the equilibrium profits of the data … the baseline model, we prove that these results hold under first-degree price-discrimination …
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We study how mandatory online disclosure of supermarket prices affects prices and price dispersion in brick … in price dispersion and a 4% to 5% drop in prices following the transparency regulation. The price drop varied across …, we show that prices declined as more consumers used price-comparison websites, and we highlight the role of media …
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led the merging parties to reposition their assortment and increase average category prices. While the low-variety and low-price …
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efficient firms are active. This is likely to lead to price increases, rather than decreases …
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The conventional view, as expounded by sticky-price models, is that price adjustment determines the PPP reversion rate …. This study examines the mechanism by which PPP deviations are corrected. Nominal exchange rate adjustment, not price …
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By facilitating the flow of information in society, communications technology (CT; e.g., newspapers, radio, television, the internet) can help terrorists to (i) spread their message, (ii) recruit followers, and (iii) coordinate among group members. However, CT also facilitates monitoring and...
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We study price dynamics for computer components sold on a price-comparison website. Our fine-grained data — a year of … hourly price data for scores of rival retailers — allow us to estimate a dynamic model of competition, backing out structural … conditions rather than entering a new price. We use our model to simulate the counterfactual gains from automated price setting …
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