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Price Setting in Online Markets : Basic Facts, International Comparisons, and Cross-Border Integration

Gorodnichenko, Yuriy - 2014

We document basic facts about prices in online markets in the U.S. and Canada, a rapidly growing segment of the retail sector. Relative to prices in regular stores, prices in online markets are more flexible as well as exhibit stronger pass-through (60-75 percent) and faster convergence...

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Do Pharmacists Buy Bayer? Informed Shoppers and the Brand Premium

Bronnenberg, Bart J. - 2014

suggest that misinformation and related consumer mistakes explain a sizable share of the brand premium for health products …

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Estimating the Border Effect : Some New Evidence

Gopinath, Gita - 2009

To what extent do national borders and national currencies impose costs that segment markets across countries? To answer this question we use a dataset with product level retail prices and wholesale costs for a large grocery chain with stores in the U.S. and Canada. We develop a model of pricing...

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When Discounts Raise Costs : The Effect of Copay Coupons on Generic Utilization

Dafny, Leemore - 2016

Branded pharmaceutical manufacturers frequently offer "copay coupons'" that insulate consumers from cost-sharing, thereby undermining insurers' ability to influence drug utilization. We study the impact of copay coupons on branded drugs first facing generic entry between 2007 and 2010. To...

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Wealth Transfers from Implementing Real-Time Retail Electricity Pricing

Borenstein, Severin - 2021

Adoption of real-time electricity pricing %u2014 retail prices that vary hourly to reflect changing wholesale prices %u2014 removes existing cross-subsidies to those customers that consume disproportionately more when wholesale prices are highest. If their losses are substantial, these customers...

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Sticky Prices : New Evidence from Retail Catalogs

Kashyap, Anil K. - 2011

This paper presents new results on the size, frequency, and synchronization of price changes for twelve selected retail goods over the past 35 years. Three basic facts about the data are uncovered: first, nominal prices are typically fixed for more than one year although the time between changes...

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Real Exchange Rate Fluctuations and the Dynamics of Retail Trade Industries on the U.S.-Canada Border

Campbell, Jeffrey R.; Lapham, Beverly J. - 2021

Consumers living near the U.S.-Canada border can shift their expenditures between the two countries, so real exchange rate fluctuations can act as demand shocks to border areas' retail trade industries. Using annual county-level data, we estimate the effects of real exchange rates on the number...

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Economies of Density in E-Commerce : A Study of Amazon's Fulfillment Center Network

Houde, Jean-François - 2017

We examine the economies of density associated with the expansion of Amazon's distribution network from 2006 to 2018 …. We demonstrate that, in placing a fulfillment center in a new state, Amazon faces a trade-off between the revenue … of consumers relative to Amazon's fulfillment centers to predict revenues and shipping distances under the observed …

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Accounting for Innovation in Consumer Digital Services : It Still Matters

Byrne, David M. - 2019

This paper develops a framework for measuring digital services in the face of ongoing innovations in the delivery of content to consumers. We capture what Brynjolfsson and Saunders (2009) call “free goods” as the capital services generated by connected consumers' stocks of IT digital goods,...

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An Anatomy of U.S. Firms Seeking Trademark Registration

Dinlersoz, Emin - 2018

This paper reports on the construction of a new dataset that combines data on trademark applications and registrations from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office with data on firms from the U.S. Census Bureau. The resulting dataset allows tracking of various activity related to trademark use and...

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