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What Can the Price Gap between Branded and Private Label Products Tell Us about Markups?
Barsky, Robert; Bergen, Mark; Dutta, Shantanu; Levy, Daniel - 2002
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013204715
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Beyond the Cost of Price Adjustment: Investments in Pricing Capital
Zbaracki, Mark; Bergen, Mark; Dutta, Shantanu; Levy, Daniel - 2005
expenditures into these “pricing” production processes. We coin the term “pricing capital” for these investments, and suggest that … they can improve the efficiency of the “pricing production” activities by both reducing the costs of adjusting prices, and … of the existence as well as the importance of pricing capital in firms. The existence of firm-level “pricing capital” has …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013204749
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Beyond the Cost of Price Adjustment : Investments in Pricing Capital
Zbaracki, Mark; Bergen, Mark E.; Dutta, Shantanu; Levy, … - 2010
expenditures into these "pricing" production processes. We coin the term "pricing capital" for these investments, and suggest that … they can improve the efficiency of the "pricing production" activities by both reducing the costs of adjusting prices, and … of the existence as well as the importance of pricing capital in firms. The existence of firm-level "pricing capital" has …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014028006
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What Can the Price Gap between Branded and Private-Label Products Tell Us About Markups?
Barsky, Robert; Bergen, Mark E.; Dutta, Shantanu; Levy, … - 2010
We empirically study the market power of U.S. national brand manufacturers by estimating the size of markups for nationally branded products sold in the U.S. retail grocery industry. We use scanner data from a large Midwestern supermarket chain to compute several different measures of upper and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014029569
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Discussion of "Lumpy Price Adjustments: A Microeconometric Analysis" by Dhyne, et al. (2007)
Levy, Daniel - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
Discussion of "Lumpy Price Adjustments: A Microeconometric Analysis" by Emmanuel Dhyne, Catherine Fuss, Hashem Pesaran, and Patrick Sevestre (2007); Presented at the Spring 2007 Conference of the Deutsche Bundesbank and the Banque De France on "Micro-Data and Macroeconomic Implications," April...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836083
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What Can the Price Gap between Branded and Private Label Products Tell Us about Markups?
Barsky, Robert; Bergen, Mark; Dutta, Shantanu; Levy, Daniel - Department of Economics, Bar Ilan University - 2002
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008553021
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Beyond the Cost of Price Adjustment: Investments in Pricing Capital
Zbaracki, Mark; Bergen, Mark; Levy, Daniel; Ritson, Mark - Department of Economics, Bar Ilan University - 2005
expenditures into these “pricing” production processes. We coin the term “pricing capital” for these investments, and suggest that … they can improve the efficiency of the “pricing production” activities by both reducing the costs of adjusting prices, and … of the existence as well as the importance of pricing capital in firms. The existence of firm-level “pricing capital” has …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008526362
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Discussion of "Inflation and Relative Price Asymmetry" by Ratfai, A.
Levy, Daniel - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
This is a discussion of Ratfai (2007), presented at the 2007 Macroeconomics Workshop of the Rimini Center for Economic Analysis on "The Macroeconomics of Price Setting," May 10-11, 2007, University of Bologna, Rimini, Italy.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011107663
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Beyond the Cost of Price Adjustment: Investments in Pricing Capital
Zbaracki, Mark; Bergen, Mark; Dutta, Shantanu; Levy, Daniel - EconWPA - 2005
expenditures into these “pricing” production processes. We coin the term “pricing capital” for these investments, and suggest that … they can improve the efficiency of the “pricing production” activities by both reducing the costs of adjusting prices, and … of the existence as well as the importance of pricing capital in firms. The existence of firm-level “pricing capital” has …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005561290
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Discussion of "The Pricing Behavior of Firms in the Euro Area: New Survey Evidence," by Fabiani, S., et al. (2004)
Levy, Daniel - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004
Discussion of "The Pricing Behavior of Firms in the Euro Area: New Survey Evidence" by S. Fabiani, M. Druant, I …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005789749