factors for this price increase differentiated by fuel costs, CO2-emission allowances, and market power. We develop a …

price components in 2006 in order to identify the factors responsible for the increase. We develop a competitive benchmark …

features related to logistical challenges, bidding efficiency, in-market concentration, and the price discovery process differ … between commodities with and without a significant price increase due to UMP. These analyses lead to several policy insights …

responses to rivals' price advertising and find that small, non-advertising stores raise their prices of products advertised by … rivals beyond their baseline price increase, while larger, advertising stores raise by less their prices of rival …-advertised products. We find no reductions in price dispersion across stores with the introduction of price advertising. However, those …

The menu-cost interpretation of sticky prices implies that the probability of a price change should depend on the past … history of prices and fundamentals only through the gap between the current price and the frictionless price. We find that … menu-cost model as a literal description of these firms' behavior, arguing instead that price stickiness arises from …

expanding its early theme of speculative trading which emerged in 2009 following the food price crisis. Although many times … equilibrium dynamics. A logical framework retraces price and quantity adjustment directions from underlying speculative demand or … supply curve shifts; using it, we extracted these shifts with RWGCT from the price and arrival quantity data of Delhi potato …

Similar to the perfect one, second-degree price discrimination charges different price for different quantity. Unlike … associated equilibrium price should be higher, not lower. This paper swishes the magic wand to turn the higher theoretical … wholesale price into a lower observed one …

The menu-cost interpretation of sticky prices implies that the probability of a price change should depend on the past … history of prices and fundamentals only through the gap between the current price and the frictionless price. We find that … menu-cost model as a literal description of these firms' behavior, arguing instead that price stickiness arises from …