convert free users to paying ones. Price promotions (or “sales”) are often used in freemium to induce the conversion. However …, the causal effect of exposing consumers to such inter-temporal price variation is unclear. While sales can generate …, where the base version is sold for free, so that sales form extreme price cuts on the overall product combination. We work …

agreements, and vertical price restrictions. We then review recent research on how print media have been affected by the growth …

second- and third-degree price discrimination, and in the probability of their concerts selling out. Most strikingly, artists …

Prices that end with 9, also known as psychological price points, are common, comprising about 70% of the retail prices … price ending that has the same effects as 9-endings. In January 2014, the Israeli government passed a new regulation …. Thus, 90-ending prices became the new psychological price points, partially eliminating the regulation's intended effect …

Concentration has increased since the 1980s in a variety of industries. Price-cost margins have also increased over … been associated with widening margins of price-cost margins. I show that widening margins generally, whether related to …

The literature on costs of price adjustment has long argued that changing prices is a complex and costly process. In … fact, some authors have suggested that we should think of firms' price-setting activities as "producing" prices, similar to … this view, that besides observing costs of price adjustment, we should also expect to see firm-level investments in capital …

even when they offer little transaction convenience. We corroborate these findings with two large retail scanner price …

We study the price rigidity of regular and sale prices, and how it is affected by pricing formats (i.e., pricing … strategies). We use data from three large Canadian stores with different pricing formats (Every-Day-Low-Price, Hi-Lo, and Hybrid … regular prices as displayed on the store shelves. We combine these data with two “generated” regular price series (filtered …

higher online spending share is associated with higher price flexibility, smaller price changes, less prevalent sales, and … lower price dispersion within narrow categories of goods. I conjecture that online shopping makes it easier for consumers to …