Barsky, Robert; Bergen, Mark; Dutta, Shantanu; Levy, Daniel - In: Scanner Data and Price Indexes, (pp. 165-288). 2003
In this paper we investigate the size of markups for nationally branded products sold in the U.S. retail grocery industry. Using scanner data from a large Midwestern supermarket chain, we compute several measures of upper and lower bounds on markup ratios for over 230 nationally branded products...