Beck, Jonathan; Grajek, Michal; Wey, Christian - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2005
This paper presents a set of panel data to study the diffusion of retail checkout barcode scanning in ten European countries over the period 1981-1996. Estimates from a standard diffusion model suggest that countries differ most in the long-run diffusion level of barcode scanning and less in...