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Inflation is painful, for firms, customers, employees, and society. But careful study of periods of hyperinflation …
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Inflation is painful, for firms, customers, employees, and society. But careful study of periods of hyperinflation …
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the small.” Furthermore, it turns out that inflation offers only a partial explanation for the finding. Indeed …, substantial proportion of the asymmetry remains unexplained, even after accounting for the inflation. For example, the asymmetry … holds also after excluding periods of inflation from the data, and even for products whose price had not increased. The …
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Inflation is painful, for firms, customers, employees, and society. But careful study of periods of hyperinflation …
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We study the link between price points and price rigidity, using two datasets: weekly scanner data, and Internet data. We find that: “9” is the most frequent ending for the penny, dime, dollar and ten-dollar digits; the most common price changes are those that keep the price endings at...
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We study the price adjustment practices and provide quantitative measurement of the managerial and customer costs of price adjustment using data from a large U.S. industrial manufacturer and its customers. We find that price adjustment costs are a much more complex construct than the existing...
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In this paper we argue that pricing is all about price changes, and that the costs of price changes are often simultaneously subtle and substantial. We discuss a framework to deal with the dynamics of changing prices. This framework incorporates customer interpretations of price changes, an...
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inflation can explain some of the asymmetry, inflation is not the whole story as the asymmetry holds even after excluding … hold for different measures of inflation and also after allowing for lagged price adjustments. We offer a consumer …
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Electronic shelf label (ESL) is an emerging price display technology around the world. While these new technologies require non-trivial investments by the retailer, they also promise significant operational efficiencies in the form of savings in material, labor and managerial costs. The presumed...
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Electronic shelf label (ESL) is an emerging price display technology around the world. While these new technologies require non-trivial investments by the retailer, they also promise significant operational efficiencies in the form of savings in material, labor and managerial costs. The presumed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012387264