This paper presents evidence on the amount of price rigidity that exists in individual transaction prices. Using the … important findings are: 1.The degree of price rigidity in many industries is significant. It is not unusual in some industries … commodities, the correlation of price changes across buyers is very low. 3.There is no evidence that there is an asymmetry in …

consumers have become less price sensitive over time …

We analyze data on tens of thousands of alternating-offer, business-to-business negotiations in the wholesale used … mediating the negotiations. We find that who intermediates the negotiation matters: high-performing mediators are 22.03% more … negotiations, overcoming some of the inefficiency inherent in incomplete-information settings …

the case of negotiations over work rules and wages than in both the cases of fully efficient bargaining and of bargaining …

mobile app, to accompany price offers with a message. Using this natural experiment, our difference-in-differences approach …