field experiment, we assess such impact of ESL by studying how it shapes retail pricing practices and outcomes. Our general … role in pricing. To the best of our knowledge, ours is the first study to explore and quantify how ESL interacts with … retail strategy to affect retail pricing practices and retail outcomes. …

We study item-pricing laws (which require that each item in a store be individually marked with a price sticker) and … examine and quantify their costs and benefits. On the cost side, we argue that item-pricing laws increase the retailers’ costs …-State area of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut. The Tri-States offer a unique setting—a natural experiment—to study item-pricing …

classical twopart tariffs only as potential competition between the platform operator and sellers reduces platform …

private suppliers have market power. We do this by studying the staggered rollout of hundreds of government milk "ration … supplied milk by 2.4% and increased household consumption. To compare direct provision with budget-neutral alternatives, we … larger consumer surplus than milk vouchers and unrestricted cash transfers. …

producer for consumer electronics. We observe input prices of firms, and all their moves in the entry and the pricing game over … instrumenting is particularly important for estimating the effect of competition on the markup of the price leader. …

competition on the markup of the price leader. One more firm in the market is associated with a reduction of the price leader …'s markup which is equivalent to competition between existing firms for an additional three weeks in the product life cycle. Our … results support search theoretic models and contradict models of monopolistic competition. Moreover our results support the …

Asymmetric pricing is the phenomenon where prices rise more readily than they fall. We articulate, and provide … empirical support for, a theory of asymmetric pricing in wholesale prices. In particular, we show how wholesale prices may be … of the results for the asymmetric pricing, distribution channels and cost of price adjustment literatures, and …

In a model with manufacturer and retailer competition, we show that RPM facilitates manufacturer cartels when retailers … collude and illustrate the fit of this theory in competition policy cases. …