retail price for avocados, a key Californian fresh produce commodity. Retail prices for avocados exhibited countercyclical … with high aggregate consumer demand. Retail price and margin were significantly lower during some holidays … that the increase in demand and decrease in retail price during holidays/events with demand peaks for avocados was present …

The typical model of retail pricing for produce products assumes retailers set price equal to the farm price plus a … certain markup. However, observations from scanner data indicate a large degree of price dispersion in the grocery retailing …) pricing, periodic sale, and high-low pricing. Retail price variations under these alternative pricing regimes in general have …

In this paper, we show that a simple model of smoothly state-dependent pricing generates a distribution of price … assumption: price adjustment is more likely when it is more valuable. The constant probability model (Calvo 1983) and the fixed … dependence. The fixed menu cost model is inconsistent with the evidence both because it never generates small price adjustments …

the steady-state distribution of price adjustments in microdata ; realism calls for firm-specific shocks. Computing a …

oil-dependent economy. 3) This thesis adds to the literature on the interplay between monetary policy and oil price shocks … ongoing discussion whether the monetary policy amplifies or dampens the recessionary effects of oil price shocks by pointing …

probability distribution. In the case of early stage building contract price forecasts the approximate distribution of the likely …