We document the existence of asymmetric price transmission in Mexico for a wide variety of food and non-food products … (wholesale-retail). We find that asymmetric price transmission is a common behavior in many of the good markets that we studied … their expenditure for the acquisition of goods that present positive price asymmetries. …

prices. Remedies based on separate bargaining do not alleviate the price increases. …

search costs and price dispersion using a hand-collected panel data set from Jerusalem's Shuk Mahane Yehuda outdoor market …. We present empirical evidence that price dispersion increases with the cost of search using several different measures of … price dispersion, however, our interpretation of this finding is sensitive to the search proxy in question. We also address …

. Entry costs faced by potential entrants, fixed costs faced by incumbent producers, and the toughness of short-run price …