publicly report their charge prices. Our study evaluates the heterogeneous effects of this price transparency policy. We use a … synthetic control method that allows for heterogeneous treatment effects. We find that the price transparency policy not only … by 15.9% and hospital costs by 4.7%. Our estimation results show that the effects on charge prices do not last as long as …

at a fixed price before an auction. In the "Buy-It-Now" format, the seller has the bargaining power and offers a price … prior to the auction; whereas in the "Sell-It-Now" format, it is the buyer. Both formats are extensively used in online and … auction. …

We investigate how an artist’s death impacts on the price of her artwork by estimating individual death effects of a …

This paper studies the price and employment response of firms to the introduction of a nation-wide minimum wage in … insignificant. In contrast, affected firms increased prices much more frequently. The price effect is prevalent across different … degree of price pass-through were high and firms rolled over the lion's share of the costs generated by the minimum wage to …

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 …

became physically integrated. The oil-linked Continental gas price became dominant, due to both the large volume of the … opening up of the Interconnector (1998) the UK gas market had neither government price regulation nor a physical Continental … oil and electricity, took place. Using monthly price data, we find a highly integrated market where wholesale demand seems …

We study planned price changes in German firm-level survey data to infer the relative importance of supply and demand …-on-quarter producer price inflation is predicted to decline by as much as 1.5 percentage points through August 2020. These results imply a …