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

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. …

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 …

with the results of an empirical analysis of price response to changes in cost. We find that firms without adjacent … competition exhibit both upward and downward price rigidity, an outcome we ascribe to asymmetric information between the consumer … and the firm. Given that previous studies have focused on downward price rigidities of firms with market power, our …

, intensifies price competition for non-loyal customers, and eliminates cannibalization from customer self-selection. Contrary to … prior literature on one-to-one marketing and price discrimination, we show that even symmetric firms can avoid the well …

pharmacy-level price data pertaining to over 800 drugs has been released weekly on the Medicare Web site continuously between … a large sample of pharmacy level drug price data collected from the Medicare website for several weeks to answer the …

This paper examines how a Korean automobile firm price-discriminates between the Korean and the U.S. markets. We argue … that a Korean automobile firm's pricing behavior depends on the differences in price elasticity over the segmented markets … between the countries. Our findings are that differences in price elasticity may help explain why a medium-class car's price …