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Is the Focus on Food Deserts Fruitless? Retail Access and Food Purchases Across the Socioeconomic Spectrum
Handbury, Jessie - 2015
Using novel data describing the healthfulness of household food purchases and the retail landscapes consumers face, we measure the role of access in explaining why wealthier and more educated households purchase healthier foods. We find that spatial differences in access, though significant, are...
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Not-so-Classical Measurement Errors : A Validation Study of Homescan
Einav, Liran - 2008
We report results from a validation study of Nielsen Homescan data. We use data from a large grocery chain to match thousands of individual transactions that were recorded by both the retailer (at the store) and the Nielsen Homescan panelist (at home). First, we report how often shopping trips...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012769531
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Inflation Expectations, Learning and Supermarket Prices
Cavallo, Alberto - 2014
Information frictions play a central role in the formation of household inflation expectations, but there is no consensus about their origins. We address this question with novel evidence from survey experiments. We document two main findings. First, individuals in lower-inflation contexts have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013045642
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Improving the Quality of Choices in Health Insurance Markets
Abaluck, Jason - 2016
Insurance product choice is a central feature of health insurance markets in the United States, yet there is ongoing … concern over whether consumers choose appropriately in such markets – and little evidence on solutions to any choice … document large choice inconsistencies, with the typical employee foregoing savings of more than $600 in their insurance plan …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012977629
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Poultry in Motion : A Study of International Trade Finance Practices
Antras, Pol - 2011
This paper analyzes the financing terms that support international trade and sheds light on how and why these arrangements affect trade. Using detailed transaction level data from a U.S. based exporter of frozen and refrigerated food products, primarily poultry, it begins by describing broad...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013124546
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Estimation of Dynamic Discrete Choice Models in Continuous Time with an Application to Retail Competition
Arcidiacono, Peter - 2012
choice models in continuous time that is computationally light and readily applicable to dynamic games. In the proposed … framework, players face a standard dynamic discrete choice problem at decision times that occur stochastically. The resulting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013099418
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013160151
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Wheat or Strawberries? Intermediated Trade with Limited Contracting
Krishna, Kala - 2014
Why do developing countries fail to specialize in products in which they appear to have a comparative advantage? We propose a model of agricultural trade with intermediation that explains how hold-up resulting from poor contracting environments can produce such an outcome. We use the model to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013044971
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Why Does the Average Price of Tuna Fall During Lent?
Nevo, Aviv; Hatzitaskos, Kostis - 2021
For many products the average price paid by consumers falls during periods of high demand. We use information from a large supermarket chain to decompose the decrease in the average price into a substitution effect, due to an increase in the share of cheaper products, and a price reduction...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013247226
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Do Firms Use Coupons and In-Store Discounts to Strategically Market Experience Goods Over the Consumption Life-Cycle? The Case of Cigarettes
Sfekas, Andrew - 2014
Cigarettes are experience goods - most of their utility value only gets revealed when one consumes them. We hypothesize a three phase consumer life cycle for experience goods. Consumers initially do not know their utility from the good or their preferences for particular characteristics, and may...
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