integration and price convergence in international markets. Using a panel data set of car prices we examine how the process of … integration has affected cross-country price dispersion in Europe. We find surprisingly strong evidence of convergence towards …

rate. Multiple margins of adjustment (frequency of price changes, direction of price changes, size of price changes, exit … our dataset to show that degree of competition, stickiness of prices, synchronization of price changes, reputation of … sellers, and returns to search effort are important determinants of pass-through and speed of price adjustment for …

yen began a sustained appreciation, but finds that only five of seventeen products experienced a shift in price behavior …

It is the price behavior in primary manufacturing industries and its implication for general inflation that is the … manufacturing, producer goods manufacturing and construction. To shed light on the price behavior of the group as a whole it is …

level of price dispersion both within product categories across exporters, and within exporters across buyers. This latter … source of price discrepancies, sellers' price discrimination across buyers, is indicative of deviations from the law …-of-one price. Price discrimination (i) is substantial within the EU, within the euro area, and within EMU countries; (ii) has not …

-series data for 21 EU countries from year 1998 to 2007 from various data resources. We provide strong evidence that the price gap … share of ad valorem tax in total excise tax leads to about a 4 to 5 percent increase in the price gap, with a smaller impact …

EU countries closely regulate pharmaceutical prices whereas the U.S. does not. This paper shows how price constraints …&D spending grew at a real 5.4 percent rate. Results show that EU consumers enjoyed much lower pharmaceutical price inflation …

Long-run cross-country price data exhibit a puzzle. Today, richer countries exhibit higher price levels than poorer …