Bergen, Mark; Levy, Daniel; Ray, Sourav; Rubin, Paul; … - EconWPA - 2004
We study item-pricing laws (which require that each item in a store be individually marked with a price sticker) and … examine and quantify their costs and benefits. On the cost side, we argue that item-pricing laws increase the retailers’ costs …-State area of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut. The Tri-States offer a unique setting—a natural experiment—to study item-pricing …