We examine the price and variety of products at the barcode level in cities within China and the United States. In both … countries, there is a greater variety of products in larger cities. But in China, unlike the United States, the prices of … follows that the cost of living for grocery-store products in China is lower in larger cities. We further compare the cost …

Abstract We examine the price and variety of products at the barcode level in cities within China and the United States …. In both countries, there is a greater variety of products in larger cities. But in China, unlike the United States, the … prices, it follows that the cost-of-living for grocery-store products in China is lower in larger cities. We further compare …

access to imported consumer goods from China. Imported consumer goods can keep the levels and rates of increases of the …-percentage-point increase in the share of U.S. apparel imports from China would lower the annual rate of growth of the U.S. apparel price index … (which include apparel imports) from China would lower the annual rate of growth of U.S. non-oil price index by approximately …

real consumption for a select group of nations in Europe and some large countries like China and Russia, but lower in most …